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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To think there will [b]somehow be a firewall between SWW and 8th grade FS students is naive.[/b] Maybe next year there will, and I may even give you 2015. But after that the [b]FS kids will be moving on to SWW. [/b]You don't merge schools to make a pk-12 school then make kids test into certain grades.

Not saying good or bad but that is what will happen. [/quote]

Wrong.  Completely wrong.  Cheh and the families of Upper NW will never stand for it.  More importantly, that's not part of the long-term strategy.  Look, co-locating is not merging, lots of schools have done it.  It's not a big deal.  What will happen is that this will facilitate changing the feeder patterns.

DCPS didn't spend all that money at Eastern, just to funnel more kids into Upper NW.  Wilson is full, in fact it is over-flowing.  Some schools need to be cut loose from Wilson and funneled into Eastern - Stevens is ripe for the picking.

Look at the map.  FS is halfway between the two, and on the same side of the park as Eastern.  The MS options on the Hill are terrible, largely because the good ESs can't be combined.  That means the higher SES families in its vicinity won't strongly support them.  (There's no way to combine Brent and Maury with the cluster into SH.  DCPS will continue to lose students into the high-end charter options, such as Latin, Basis, now probably DCI too.)  So, Kaya has to find a way to steer as many relatively decent MSs into Eastern.  Stevens is perfect.  What's the OOB percentage - 80% or more?  Of course no-one will complain - all the upper year students are from Ward 5 or East of the river anyway, they're just happy to avoid Anacostia.

No-one in upper NW (most of the SWW families) is going to settle for diluting that school by letting anyone walk in without testing, it simply makes no sense.  Finding a good way to take some students out of Wilson, is what makes sense.  What will happen is that the feeder pattern will change and Francis Stevens will feed Eastern.[/quote]

FS currently feeds into Cardozo NOT Wilson.  Look it up. Your argument is off.[/quote]

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