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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lafayette and Shepherd to New North and Coolidge. There's plenty of room if you look at how small Coolidge's enrollment is and put the 8th graders in a separate wing there. If it ever fills up, it will be in time for the the 2030s boundary reassignment process.

Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Oyster-Adams serving elementary only and getting the same feeder pattern. You want a DCPS immersion school? You get the immersion school feeders. If you don't like it, SWW @ F-S is the monolingual option for OA.[/quote]

I like this idea. But with every idea mentioned on any topic that is logical, it will never be what DCPS is thinking.[/quote]

I agree with the idea, but neither the mayor nor the city administration have the guts. They could do it if they just stuck to their guns. But Lafayette doesn’t make sense geographically and in terms of transportation.

The truth is that the coherent place to break the boundaries for transportation and proximity is at Rock Creek Park. The only reason people don’t is for purposes of getting something better that is within reach. The civil rights integration stuff is being used as a tool for people to get what they want, not serve poor children or integrate the class and race segregation of upper NW.

I live near Powell, Bancroft and Raymond. I’m tired of those people avoiding their local schools and insisting they are the diversity that Deal has and without them it turns into the Third Reich or South Africa or something. My neighborhood middle schools and high schools are undeniably better if those students are forced to come to MacFarland or Roosevelt or Coolidge. DCUM NIMBYs who won’t participate are free to move, but what we need isn’t perpetual access to one overcrowded high school that everyone claims as a property right. It’s an entire school system, especially where localizing integration can make a difference. [/quote]

If Shepherd, Crestwood (grandfathered) and Bancroft families can take a dedicated bus across Military for 20+ years, Lafayette families can do the same. Sorry, not the best argument.[/quote]

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