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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is highly unlikely that DCPS is going to remove the highest scoring majority-black elementary school from the best middle and high school feed. The optics and politics would be astoundingly bad.[/quote]

This.  Any other school is more likely to be removed from the feeder pattern before Shepherd because taking the only majority black school out of the Deal feeder pattern would look very racist and would look like taking most of the black kids out of the feeder pattern.  Which it would, in fact, be.[/quote]

Shepherd is also the only IB feeder to IB Deal.[/quote]

Not sure that really matters one way or the other, as a graduate of an IB high school who didn't attend IB elementary or middle schools. The bigger issues are, as people pointed out, Shepherd is relatively small, so removing it doesn't change Deal and Wilson's overcrowding much, and it would be seen (correctly) as outrageous to remove a majority black school from that feeder pattern. It would also run counter to much of DCPS's stated goals and policies around equity.[/quote]

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