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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.[/quote]

Just the bus from Dupont Circle takes 36 minutes. [/quote]

Who says all OOB kids come from EotR? You’d have to move heaven and earth to cut Janney out of Deal, but families who live IB for Janney will lottery for this school in droves. And that, plus the end of the Hardy-to-Wilson feed, will open up OOB seats at Wilson. Which is right on top of the train, a 30-minute ride from the Anacostia station. It’s a dynamic system. [/quote]

They should bar kids currently zoned for Wilson from lotterying into this school, unless the plan really is mostly to open seats at Wilson. Doesn't really seem like it's serving the ostensible goal of maintaining citywide seats if a bunch of them are taken by kids who live one neighborhood outside of the boundary. My kids are zoned for Wilson, so theoretically my opinion is against my family's interests, but I don't see how this outcome would really be fair for the city as a whole.[/quote]

That would be an enormous can of worms that probably isn't worth opening.  I don't think there is anyone currently barred from city-wide seats right now.  What if the school has specialties that you can't get at Wilson?  What if someone wants a smaller school?[/quote]

Yes, agree super odd idea which would never get off the ground. 
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