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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sadly, I think you probably are right about the lack of political willpower.  DC is in for a pretty rough ride though if the only time our city's leaders are willing to make tough decisions is when they're lame ducks.  I don't see this lack of courage as a reason to stop advocating for change.  Think of all the other difficult decisions some of our nation's leaders have made.  We should encourage those tough leaders - and elect more of them - not let them off the hook by shrugging our shoulders and looking the other way when they're being craven.  If Mayor Bowser hears from enough people that she needs to address this issue, I'd like to think she'd do something.[/quote]

"Craven", "lack of courage", because they don't want to revisit an issue two years after it was resolved in a lengthy citywide process... right. This sounds like sour grapes to me. [/quote]
No, not sour grapes at all.  I'm OK with my kids' schooling situation.  Just looking at how my community might fare better.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that DCPS would revisit the entire long process it did a few years ago.  Mayor Bowser managed to tweak the process less than two months after she took office, so surely she or another leader could make similar small course-corrections without restarting the whole long process.  For example, Mayor Bowser could simply announce that the DME's office has determined that Deal is already 25% over capacity, and that the audited enrollment data suggests that if some change isn't made, then Deal's enrollment threatens to exceed 30% over capacity within a couple years.  So to stem the problem, she is going to make an interim tweak to the boundary plan to limit OOB feeder rights for 2017-18 to apply only if Deal is within its max capacity.  That's a far cry from a lengthy process, and it gives affected families well over a year to adjust.  It also would go a long way to control the crowding problem at Deal.[/quote]

What community is this that might fare better? IB area for CHEC? MacFarland?

Bowser tweaked it to extend rights to popular schools, not end those rights. The latter isn't going to happen without a process similar to the last time.  
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