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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since everyone is just making stuff up with absolutely no grounds whatsoever (or shamelessly advancing solutions that benefit them), I figured why not.  So here is how I think DCPS will "solve" overcrowding.  Not what I think they should do, or even what makes sense, but what they might do.

Unlikely that Bowser will screw Ward 4.  Either she is running, in which case why.  Or she is not, in which case she still won't screw over her allies.  Either way Shepherd and Lafayette sleep soundly.

She wouldn't screw Jack Evans either, but he is likely toast now, so what the hell.  And Hyde has already been shoved off to Meyer for swing space.  And who in the city will weep for Georgetown.  So Hyde loses gets sent to SWWFS and Cardozo.  And out of spite to the Save Old Hardy folks, she redraws the boundaries to put them in Hyde too.  Old Hardy stays with Lab.

Brianne Nadeau isn't an ally of the mayor either so Bancroft goes to MacFarland and Roosevelt.

Even with Bancroft gone, Deal needs a big school to leave.  One that can take 100 kids a year out.  Cheh isn't exactly a supporter of the Mayor so Janney is off to Hardy.  Yes Janney.  Janney moms lose their minds and scream, but in the boundary review look so clueless and out of touch with the rest of the city that they undermine themselves.

OOB feeder policy doesn't get changed.  [b]But it doesn't matter because OOB has been squeezed out at the elementary level and will be at middle and high soon.[/b]  Why take flack for changing the policy when demographics will do the job for you?

But none of this solves the elementary school problem.  So PK is gone in Ward 3.  Again not an official policy, but DCPS just lets it happen because they don't do anything.  Class sizes rise to 30 kids.  Gardens and bee hives get trailers on top of them.  Art, music, science, and foreign languages are taught out of a cart.  Parents start turning to other options (private, move).  Add to this minor tweaks to the elementary school boundaries to move kids across the park.  It doesn't do much, but it makes the rest of the city feel better.  Again, Ward 3 and 4 parents who are affected flip out, but DCPS conducts lots of focus groups, surveys, and listening sessions, and then declares victory.

Also barely solved is overcrowding at Wilson (Bancroft and Hyde do a little but not much).  For that we have expanded citywide schools.  Duke Ellington, a newly-renovated Banneker (sorry Save Shaw), and maybe even McKinley Tech expand their seats.  DCPS tries desperately to convince white parents to send their kids to them.  They fail, and post anonymously on DCUM that it would have worked if parents weren't racist (which might very well be true in most cases).[/quote]

I don’t think most Janney parents would actually have a problem with this outcome.  When you combine their cohort with that of Key, Eaton, and a handful from Mann, it’s a pretty attractive package.  At a much smaller size than the Frankenschool that Deal has become.  [/quote]

But a renovated John Eaton effectively will have a guaranteed floor of OOB spaces.  They may not go to Deal, but virtually all eventually will go to Wilson.[/quote]

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