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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big picture perspectives needed here.  When your public middle school has a dozen trailers, triple lunch shifts and absurdly crowded hallways, ending OOB feeder rights starts to seem reasonable.  Michelle Rhee introduced these rights just a decade back for political reasons.  Placing in-boundary preference on a par with OOB feeder elementary or middle school preference is not in fact a longstanding DC tradition.  [/quote]

Attending a school outside one's boundary is, in fact, a longstanding DC tradition. Before the last 20 years' of population growth, lotteries and waitlists, and upper middle-class families who live IB for Wilson deciding to attend their inbound school.... all a yone who wanted to attend a school outside their neighborhood would go and ask to enroll. Those with connections to the principal or front office staff would usually get in.

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That's not what PP is saying. PP clearly indicated at OOB feeder rights isn't a longstanding DC tradition. This is very different from what you're suggesting which is just OOB enrollment with corruption but without the entitlement policy to attend.

[b]The best option would be to end OOB feeder rights, but make it a preference in the lottery. So if Deal has 35 spots available, then those who attended a feeder school OOB would have a preference in the lottery and 35 would get in. [/b]

The real issue is that DCPS needs to offer amazing carrots to entice families to other schools. We're IB for Deal and Wilson, but I would fully support extra funding to go to other middle and high schools to encourage those IB families to attend. [/quote]
I think this is one of the best middle ground ideas I've seen. End it by right, continue it as a preference. Keeps enrollment at a level the school can accommodate, with OOB feeders getting preference above strictly OOB. [/quote]

How about one step further --

Two preferences. First (stronger preference) would be At risk, feeder OOB. Second feeder OOB ...

Also probably siblings within those categories.[/quote]

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