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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don't have to choose among Shepherd, Lafayette, Bancroft, and Oyster. They should ALL have different feeder patterns: the former two to Wells and Coolidge and the latter two to MacFarland and Roosevelt.[/quote]

Agree. If they move schools out of Deal-Wilson, it will be a bunch of schools so none of them can say they were targeted.

Bancroft is an obvious choice, since it's gerrymandered into the Deal-Wilson catchment and just really far from the schools. Bancroft and O-A go to the dual language high schools, because duh. It's a waste of money to not send them there.

Shepherd and Lafayette will both be re-assigned at the same time for the purposes of political optics/CYA. They can't remove a school with UMC children of color (Shepherd) without removing a school filled with UMC white kids (Lafayette). Both or none. [/quote]

And the sooner this happens the better. [/quote]

I have a better suggestion: let’s split up DCPS into several autonomous local school districts.  Then each one can decide how rigorous the curriculum needs to  be, whether to track students academically or not, whether to spend funds on enrichment programs or instead on “esteem specialists,” and whether to have highly selective faculty hiring or rather to view the public schools as an employer of first resort and lifetime tenure for the “community.”  Let’s devolve decision-making authority, and kids can go to their local schools where each such district makes its educational preferences heard through its elected school board.  Then we can all give “DC political optics” a swift kick in the booty.[/quote]

That's how DCPS operated until Brown vs. Board of Education. There were two school systems, each with its own superintendent, school board, facilities, staff and curriculum. As an easy mnemonic to keep them straight they were color-coded, one was called the "white" system and the other the "black" system. [/quote]

Don’t you get tired of paying high taxes so that some two-bit councilmembers can use your kids’ schools as political pawns?  Meanwhile the hacks and wannabe SJWs waste money on crony consultants and politically connected desk-riders, as opposed to putting more $$ directly into the classroom. Why not break up DCPS into smaller units that are more accountable to student needs and parent priorities?[/quote]

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