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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Janney, Murch and Hearst are the closest elementary schools to Deal. Doesn't make sense to move those kids to another MS. These are the kids within walking distance of Deal.

It only makes sense if you are also going to shift these schools' boundaries. For example, the kids in the western-most part within Janney's boundaries might be moved to Mann, kids from Hearst's souther-most boundary to Eaton, etc.  Then these kids flow out of the Deal-Wilson feeder too.

It makes sense to build a second middle school further north, close to Lafayette.  Maybe even on the park grounds.  They have enough kids to fill a middle school and could lottery out the rest of the seats to those in other parts of the city.[/quote]

It makes sense to pull Lafayette and Shepherd out of the feeder pattern at the same time.  Frees up space at Deal and simultaneously creates a third by-right DCPS MS with a high SES cohort.  We should be trying to grow the pie here, not keep arguing over what order the slices are handed out to the same few people every year.[/quote]

Yup - the big Ward 3 crises is the HS capacity.  A new middle school in a lousy location will do nothing to resolve that issue and could make it worse if that new MS fills up with OOB kids since it won't be utilized unless they wildly re-draw boundaries eg Mann gets moved there.

Moving Lafayette and Shepherd to McFarland & Roosevelt would solve the Wilson capacity issue and would not require building a new school or DCPS awkwardly re-drawing all of the WOTP boundaries.

The kids from Shepherd would have a decidedly shorter trip to school and even the Lafayette kids wouldn't really have a much longer trip.  And in any case it would require a lot less travel than will be required for kids going to a school in a hard to reach corner of DC.[/quote]

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