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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Mt P parent again - thanks for your reply. Probably there are many on DCUM who know where you live, because of previous posts that you have made, but I do not know where you live, so I can't reply to what you write with regard to your own neighborhood.

Regarding your first statement in bold: I'm going to ignore the real estate appraisal comment, but otherwise, yes, my logic is that there is no need to redraw boundaries so long as there are OOB students at a school, whether by feeder rights or other paths. In most school districts across the country OOB is only offered when a school is not full with IB students. It is a basic principle of fairness that you solve an over-crowding problem first by reducing or eliminating OOB and only then, if overcrowding remains, by reducing the geographical IB area. For example at the ES level, Janney is now full of IB students and thus it no longer accepts OOB. That's how it is supposed to operate. I don't see any proposals to shrink the Janney IB area in order to accept more OOB. Yet there are some, like the other poster on this thread who is posting proposed boundary maps, who would propose to carve Mt P out of Wilson and, presumably, allow OOB students from feeders to continue attending Wilson. This is unfair - shrinking boundaries should be a last resort. First, you reduce OOB. [/quote]

[b]What was offensive in your post is that you ask that you not be excluded from consideration given to Wilson families just because you don't live in Ward 3 - because you're basically the same demographic and income, just living in a different palce.[/b]

Jeff (along with many, many others) is also of that demographic and income level and lives in a million dollar neighborhood that's in hollering distance from Mt. P.  Crestwood is EOTP and currently zoned for Wilson but the DME proposal cuts the feed to Deal Wilson.

If you're concerned about your place at Wilson due to overcrowsing, you should be supporting a viable HS option that's on par with Wilson.  I don't think anyone feels that families would have to lose rights to Wilson if they went to a new Roosevelt.  The ideal is that those near  Roosevelt would have a school and that WOTP families might consider it as an alternative to Wilson (not forced from it).[/quote]

What I wrote, if you go back and read it, was basically a request that everyone please stop using "Ward 3" as shorthand for "educated and affluent", as if these attributes are only located in Ward 3. I was surprised by Jeff's reaction so I went back to re-read the thread, and I now notice that the post which had prompted my comment was not written by Jeff but by someone responding to Jeff. And because of this mistake I had assumed that Jeff lives in Ward 3. Here is the post to which I was responding:

"I think implementation is the main difficulty. Essentially, you've got to steal enough Ward 3 families from Wilson in order to keep the academic standards at the new Roosevelt relatively high and to provide examples to other students who haven't developed the same scholastic habits. In order to keep that tap of students flowing, you need to create incentives for Ward 3 families to choose to send their kids there; for the most part, that means duplicating the entirety of Wilson's environment. The hardest part would be re-drawing the boundaries, initially, and being able to withstand the political push-back to make the boundaries stick. DCPS has a ton of money, so I don't think that would be the issue, in terms of funding the programs at the school."

So, my apologies for mis-reading the thread on that one - it wasn't Jeff. But I would appreciate it if people would stop making the mental shortcut evident in the post I've quoted here. I'll respond to Jeff in another post.

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