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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools. [/quote]

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white. [/quote]

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?[/quote]

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur. [/quote]

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.[/quote]

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP[/quote]

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black 
Lafayette: 8% Black 
Hearst: 17% Black 
Deal: 26% Black 
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White 
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Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school.  Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids?   Because I don’t think we are. [/quote]

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.[/quote]

There is no way to fix that.  Houses are 1 million plus.  The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few.  Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.  [/quote]

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur. [/quote]

As an OOB family at one of those schools, I think it will be difficult to fill at-risk elementary slots. It’s a colossal pain in the ass to schlep your kid across the park every day. Lafayette especially is in the middle of nowhere and poorly served with public transit. Not dissing your idea, but sadly it takes privilege on top of lottery luck to attend these schools OOB. [/quote]

Janney is literally at the metro and several busses crossing Missouri/military get you within a few blocks of Lafayette. [/quote]

I think the point is that most people don't have the time or inclination to sit on the bus for an hour (or more) to get their kid to school and then make it to work on time after that. [/quote]

There are at risk kids well within an hour bus ride of Lafayette.  Just cross the park, plenty of title 1 schools close to Missouri Rd.[/quote]

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