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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re-draw the boundaries for WOTP schools to reduce the number of IB students, actually implement a 20% at-risk set aside for these schools, send all the other OOBs back to their IB and [b]force[/b] other families to use their IB if they are in DCPS.  The at-risk kids would have the right to go through to HS. Anyone who moves OOB can stay through that school year and then has to move to their IB - no principal discretion.

But DCPS/OSSE/the Mayor have no stomach for the hard choices that would benefit at-risk kids and kids IB for non-WOTP schools.  [/quote]

And that is why what you present as an easy peasy solution will fail every time. You can’t force families who have other options to send their children to a failing school. Will never happen. [/quote]

Aside from the issue the PP raised, there are two additional obvious problems with this "solution:"

- If you redraw boundaries to make IB populations smaller, you're going to need more schools WOTP.  
- This just further serves to concentrate student populations WOTP.  It's absurd that the "solution" is to make at-risk kids travel clear across the city to go to school.  
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