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Reply to "Mary Cheh's letter about school boundaries"
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[quote=Anonymous]As others have noted, there are only two schools in the city where over-crowding is seriously an issue, and that's Deal and Wilson. Both have substantial out-of-boundary populations -- Deal is at 35% and Wilson 48%. I believe that the crowding at both schools could be solved in a politically palatable way by adjusting the out-of-boundary feeder school preference -- make it a preference, not a right. It has only existed as a right since 2008. Currently Deal has 1165 students, capacity is 900 and 35% are OOB. That means currently there are roughly 410 OOB and 755 IB kids there. Deal has not admitted any OOB kids at sixth grade for several years, so presumably all of the OOB kids there now came through feeder schools. If you had a lottery at sixth grade for OOB kids and limited it to actual available seats, you'd end up with about 145 OOB kids, which means about 35% of the OOB kids in feeder schools would get in. There would be about 90 kids a year who wouldn't get into Deal, but I can't see them forming a cohesive political force. The lottery would create a possibility of getting in which would keep people off balance, and those who did get in would become powerful supporters of the status quo. You see this already with the lottery. With anxiety about shrinking Deal and Wilson taken out of the picture, you could get down to the real business of redistricting, which is rationalizing the number and location of schools. For that you wouldn't have any grandfathering, once a school is closed it's closed. DCPS would be able to act much more quickly, and achieve the goal of being able to react to demographic shift in a timely manner. [/quote]
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