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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the PP you're responding to, but why are you in denial that DCPS is a low-capacity outfit? They could have done the planning and legwork to launch MacArthur to appeal to in-boundary residents from the get-go.  My sibling's children go to Dorothy Hamm MS in Arlington, which opened several years ago.  I'm told that, from Day 1, the school was almost entirely in-boundary, with 800 out of 1000 spots filled over the summer with students from a heavily UMC catchment area. Figure it out DCPS.

We don't need you here gaslighting and serving as an apologist for DCPS, PP.  Why do you lack critical and analytical thinking skills?[/quote]

The primary goal of MaArthur was not to offload JR.  That was really secondary.  The primary goal was to have another school WOTP for OOB kids can have access and feed to (siblings).   So no need to do anything to attract majority IB parents.  IB families will be forced to go there soon enough.

Goal accomplished.[/quote]

If this were true, wouldn't they have selected a more accessible location for the school?[/quote]

They didn't select a location. Bowser did a favor for her developer/GDS friends, and then had a building to come up with a purpose for.

The building is more accessible for OOB than IB. For real. That does align with DCPS goals.
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I'd put it all a little differently: MacArthur exists to provide more seats, IB or OOB, so the OOB students at JR don't get pushed out.[/quote]

OOB students are JR are coming from the feeder elementary and then middle schools.  They will never get pushed out.  Registrars enroll anyone from a feeder school.[/quote]

Don’t spoil the conspiracy theorists’ fun.  Their main joy in life seems to be posting uninformed speculation about the motives of people they’ve never met.  They aren’t interested in boring old real world facts.  [/quote]

But there are plenty of IB students that don’t go to JR from feeders, like my kids and a bunch of their friends.[/quote]

What does that have to do with OOB kids at JR? Those kids are coming from feeder patterns.  They won’t be pushed out unless the feeder elementary schools stop accepting them.  And that’s not going to happen.[/quote]

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