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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if anyone thinks schools are segregated now, try removing OOB feeder rights and see what happens.   Deal could retain some diversity with existing boundaries, but Hardy would become all white

But of course most people on this forum don't care about diversity[/quote]

This is a serious question - what about diversity EOTP where there currently is very little.  Or I should say where currently very few white students are attending their neighborhood schools.

Folks do realize that most of the so called gentrifiers are not sending their kids to their neighborhood public schools, in part because of charters and in part because of the release valve of Deal and Wilson?  And if you got rid of those options you'd actually have diverse public schools EOTP?[/quote]

Hi, welcome to DCUM. I'm sorry, but although you may feel your question is serious, you have clearly not seriously considered it. [/quote]

Yep - they obviously don't have kids of their own, or they'd realize that without charters and[b] the "release valve" of Deal and Wilson[/b], those of us EOTP would take our high incomes (but not high enough for 2+ kids @$44k/year private) to the suburbs.[/quote]

I'm not real sure you can call Deal and Wilson a "release valve" for families EOTP.  These kids are all coming from the feeder neighborhoods.  If you actually walk around Deal now compared to even 3 or 4 years ago the diversity is almost gone, and the same thing is starting to happen at Wilson.  Sorry to say everyone, this fantasy of shipping a bunch of WOTP kids to these underutilized schools is just that - a fantasy.  It makes no logistical sense, and I can tell you no matter how progressive a resident of Chevy Chase or AU Park claims to be, the minute you start making their kid part of a social engineering experiment they will go CRAZY.  That's why these discussions are all just a bunch of nonsense.  NOTHING is going to change, there is no political will for it.  And, BTW - I don't generally see a lot of Maryland plates on cars at Deal drop off or other events, but if I do I'll get my private investigator on it STAT.[/quote]

I came up with release valve and that was not the right term.  Bail out option is more like it.

Deal is still very diverse.

And the argument is not to ship WOTP kids EOTP (though that might be necessary to get the required balance and there are some WOTP neighborhoods for which that would not really be such a big deal logistically) but the idea is to stop shipping middle class EOTP kids WOTP to jam packed Wilson & Deal.   There are plenty of middle and upper middle class families in Crestwood, Shepherd Park, N Portal Estates, Mt Pleasant, Columbia Heights so you just need to in mass bundle this kids into the same MS & HS.

And by doing so Wilson/Deal can remain diverse by accepting need based kids into the schools.

There is this funny dynamic where EOTP people of color think their enemy when it comes to continued access to Deal/Wilson is wealthy whites living WOTP.  But the real cause of overcrowding and the obstacle to improved schools EOTP are white middle class families crossing the park every day for school rather than staying in their own neighborhoods for school.[/quote]

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