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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, you are arguing there should be no set asides?[/quote]

Not if they are at the expense of in boundary students, meaning they are a reason to shrink the boundary AND there is no requirement they are actually used by at risk students.  It has been presented as a lottery preference.  Exactly how are kids that fit the parameters for at risk actually going to get to WOTP schools every day?  I am happy to have at risk kids and OOB kids at the school, I am not supportive of reducing the boundary to make room for kids of parents that have actual other choices, meaning kids that are not at risk.[/quote]

I agree with this.  No child or family should be told they can't go to a school in their neighborhood because of some ideological bureaucrat's social engineering notion du jour.[/quote]

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Janney was built to serve the area East of Wisconsin, and it seems ridiculous to even consider removing the students living closest to the school. DCPS needs to think seriously about proximity for elementary schools. Kids living close to schools shouldn't be removed to satisfy a lame duck DC bureaurocrat. [/quote][/quote]

Not sure what I did to repost this.

Anyway, this (and the post that follows it) is the kind is statement that is causing the rift within the boundary.  I would appreciate people thinking before they write.  Dcps does not need to build another elementary school in AU park so that a few homes (no current students were ever proposed to be moved) east of Wisconsin do not get moved out of the current boundary to a perfectly good and modernized elementary school.  That is silly.  I am sick of hearing about how walkability trumps all other factors, it does not.  Dcps is in a crisis in many schools, but not wotp.  [/quote]

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