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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If 20 families of Afro-Jewish heritage in Shepherd Park can swing an elementary from one middle school to another 8 years from now, then I need to know how to invest in the Illuminati.  [/quote]

Huh?[/quote]

Try reading the preceding post.  Hunh?

Shepherd Park, like all DC neighborhoods, is gentrifying.  You can throw out "Oh!  But we're multi-generational AA!" and "Oh! We're Jewish!" (btw, I have no idea what that's supposed to mean except that the PP who posted it first wants us to know that liberal white people who won't go to SP elementary with the AA children who ALSO won't go SP elementary are all similarly too wealthy too go to their local elementary.)  What they want you to know is that it's because of their SES and not because of racial prejudice.

In the meantime, Wilson (a highly over-rated high school) will likely kick Shepherd Park out of its feeder pattern (via Deal, an also over-rated DCPS - in this case middle school).[/quote]

The reason that being Jewish matters in SP is that it's walking distance to several synagogues, and many families 'pass along' (sell) their houses to someone else from their religious community. New Jewish families without connections can and do pay well over market to get into that neighborhood; pocket listings are common. These families don't use DC public schools -- they use JPDS, or travel to Rockville to attend Charles E Smith.

Wilson doesn't decide who is in, or out, of its feeder pattern. That's a political decision as much as a demographic decision, and SP is a very small school.

Bancroft, which now has programmatic feeder rights to MacFarland as well as geographic feeder rights to Deal is more likely to 'lose' Deal in the near term. Setting up that option was the first step toward nudging them out, especially since Oyster Adams got to keep its Wilson feed.

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This. It's a political decision ultimately at the hands of the mayor - one that happens to live IB for Shepherd.[/quote]

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