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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They could move Oyster and Bancroft to MacFarland and Roosevelt with the other bilingual programs (make Oyster a PK-5 program spread across the current Oyster and Adams campuses and you also get a lot more bilingual PK seats), and Shepherd and Lafayette to Wells and Coolidge. If you need to enlarge these schools, fine--you'll spend no more than you would enlarging Deal and Wilson, and you'll create more diverse and high-performing schools. Moving the early college magnet from Coolidge to Cardozo or Dunbar would also free up some space.[/quote]

And yes to ending feeder rights--if you get in OOB to a school you get into that school, not the middle and high school it feeds into. If an MS or HS has extra space, people can lottery in for that. No reason why a family who won the lottery with a 3yo needs to be lucky for the next 15-20+ years (including siblings). It sucks for people who move to DC later or for whatever reason couldn't trek across town with a toddler. This would also help people stay at ESs that they like rather than lotterying every year for a chance at a better MS/HS feeder.[/quote]

It's easy for people who live in-bounds for Deal and Wilson feeders to say this is the solution, but booting kids who currently expect to have feeder rights after lotterying in doesn't really seem fair. (And I say that as the parent of in-bound Janney kids.) [/quote]

+1. We're in bounds too, but you can't just rip away their futures that they were given. [/quote]

What is being ripped away exactly?

In any case what do you suggest as an alternative?

Isn't it "ripping away" more kids futures to have 40 kids in a class at Deal and Wilson in the near future?[/quote]

NP but telling someone at the time of lottery it confers X benefits (feeder rights through high school) and then changing it on a whim to "nah, you need to find a new school" is ripping away the future that was promised.  This is the whole point of grandfathering - if you bought your house on the premise that your kid was going to go to X school they normally let any kid already there stay and only new buyers get moved.  [/quote]

This. PP here who said it would be ripping away their futures that they were given. This is exactly what I meant. Families were told at the time of the lottery that if they lottery into Lafayette or another feeder school, then they could continue in the feeder pattern for MS and HS. Families made choices based on that, and might have chosen another path such as a charter with a feeder pattern otherwise. I just don't think it's fair to take that away years later.

If DCPS wanted to end OOB feeder pattern rights, then they should do this with notice before the lottery and grandfather anyone already OOB at these schools. Just my opinion.[/quote]

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