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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not trying to troll, really, but I don't understand how this can work. Just 20 years ago, white people barely sent their kids to DCPS. Now, many more do. More educated Black people do, too. Many places have reached the critical mass which creates change for all. If you minimize the 'educated parents' families to further the very worthy goal of helping at-risk families, do you really think that they will stay? I can't help thinking that this would facilitate them decamping for the suburbs sooner.[/quote]

The preference was modeled only for schools with less than 25% at-risk.  If 75% is not a critical mass to you, the problem is within you.[/quote]

But aren't all (or very close to all) the DCPS schools with less than 75% at risk already at or over capacity?  My kids were at a JKLM (now graduated) with a very low at risk percentage.  The school is currently out of classrooms and is filling its current classes--some with as many as 27 kids--with almost all in boundary kids.  If you have 25 kids per class and you need to add in 7 more of at risk kids per class (every class), what happens?  Then you get into the  more difficult question of what do you with those 7 neighborhood kids you just displaced?  How do you decide which kids are displaced?  Where do they go to school?  Or does the school just run classes of 32 kids?  
You can't have "right to attend" neighborhood schools plus a requirement that neighborhood schools take an additional 25% of kids from elsewhere.
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This.  Part of the benefit is that it stops certain charters from shirking their share of the more challenging work.  And certain parents from insulating themselves from real life.
You are forgetting the whole other sector. And t

And within DCPS, there are still significant OOB numbers who are in the MS and HSs due to feeder path guarantees.

To do this effectively in DCPS, you'd probably have to curtail/eliminate feeder rights for any OOB student who is not at risk. The idea is to prioritize OOB at-risk over OOB not-at risk.[/quote][/quote]

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