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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm sure you mean well, but try to understand the history here.  OOB rights were created in part to add diversity and let kids out of all-low-income schools.  Charters have no boundaries on purpose, to break the link between address and school assignment.

What you see in your neighborhood is not the whole picture of the city.  What you propose does nothing for Ward 7 and Ward 8 except shut those kids out of better performing schools that they currently attend.  [b]Is that what you want?  [/b]Think about it.

When you see schools in your area having what looks like a critical mass of higher-income kids, that doesn't mean what you think it means.  1) If everyone went IB and your fantasy of people tolerating that were true, DCPS would need to buy buildings and reboundary.  Those high-income kids would be divided across more schools, and would no longer be an appealing proportion because a lot more low-income kids would come in from KIPP, Friendship, DC Prep, etc.  2) DCPS incompetence and corruption and general twisted sadistic approach runs so deep, it takes a truly massive amount of pressure to overcome it and sometimes even that is not enough.  When you get a look at what's really going on in there, it's stunning.  Eye-opening. I used to think recruitment and demographics was the solution, but never again.  The longer high-income people attend DCPS the less they like it.  Think about why that might be.[/quote]
That is exactly what they want.[/quote]

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