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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]
I think it is harsh to cavalierly expect other families to be moved around like chess pieces on a board while not expecting the same for yourself. If you start with the goal that no boundary should be shifted to a lower performing school, you may not achieve that goal. But, you will come a lot closer than you will if you don't even try.
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So does this goal include ensuring that Southwest remains zoned for Wilson?
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I personally don't have the opinion that any address in the city should remained eternally zoned for any specific school. My position is that if an address is removed from the Wilson boundary, it should be placed inbounds for an equal or better option. I hold that position for Crestwood and I hold it for Southwest.
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I understand (and support) that sentiment, but what gives if something has to give? [b]If {Deal, Wilson} is overcrowded and DCPS needs to remove students[/b] but the "equal or better option" does not yet exist, what should be done? Your position seems to be to do nothing in that case. Again, I understand your stance, but that denies the possibility that something [b][b][u]needs [/u][/b][/b]to be done. (This is mostly hypothetical, at this point.)[/quote]

This assumption should at least be examined. The high school I attended was excellent, and we had some classrooms in temporary prefab buildings (somewhat like mobile homes or construction site offices) that became long term solutions until the school could be expanded and re-built many years later.

Most people would rather attend a slightly over-crowded excellent school than a half-empty poor performing one.

If we are going to be so adamant that Deal/Wilson are overcrowded and that this requires re-assigning people to lower quality schools, we should at least make an effort to demonstrate that the over-crowding is a serious, urgent problem versus a mere inconvenience. It sounds to me like the problem is over-stated, and it may resolve on its own in the case of Deal as more families choose Hardy. At the end of the day part of the answer may be to build more classrooms at both schools, or set up temporary ones, at least while all of these other proposed schools are being built/boosted.

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