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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 [b]At risk,[/b] feeder OOB. Second feeder OOB ...

Also probably siblings within those categories.[/quote]

Disaster says this former New Yorker -  a pack of longtime city employees and well-connected middle class families would surely emerge as "at risk" overnight.  Set asides have a way of benefiting not the needy, but the middle-class, like rent control in NYC.  I think it's much better to push for more strong schools in the neighborhoods where at-risk kids provide, e.g. DC Prep, KIPP, Seed.[/quote]

The good news about this is that if you lie to become at risk by committing food stamp or TANF fraud, the federal government gets involved and the penalties are much more severe than what DC does for current residency cheats. So if families are tempted to try it, they may soon be deterred by seeing what the Trump Administration's USDA thinks about SNAP fraud.[/quote]

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