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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]14:32, where have you been lower enrollment does mean people left the city.  Case in point when Tony Williams started ridding the city of housing projects, immediately schools with busting enrollment went down suddenly.  When vouchers were being accepted in PG county from transplanted DC residents the school that went benefited at the high school level was Suitland HS, which is surrounded by low income apartment complexes.   You have projected enrollments for at least 5 comprehensive high-schools next year to be under 500.  You have two middle-schools that was surrounded by housing projects that will have projected enrollments less than 120.[/quote]

Yep. Furthermore, the number of school aged children has fallen as DC population has continued to grow. That's because poor people have a lot of school-aged kids. Middle-class people are often childless, or have one or two kids. Since DC's population has climbed, that means it's almost certain the total number of households has increased. Just fewer children.[/quote]

Calm down. I didn't say that past drop in dcps enrollment wasn't due to people leaving the city.  I was pointing out that IF there was a drop in DCPS enrollment in the fall, it won't indicate that people are leaving the city.  All it would indicate is that people have left DCPS.  for charters or privates in the city in many cases.[/quote]

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