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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In what world should Francis Stevens feed to Eastern?  They are 5 miles apart, with plenty of options in between.  And if it's 'newly renovated' that is the criteria - Dunbar is only 2 miles down from FS.  [/quote]

[b]Details[/b] - [i]none[/i] of which change the equation, or the ultimate point.

Eastern, Cardozo, OR Dunbar - they're all big, expensive renovations, and at least one of them will get feeder schools from Wilson.  Wilson is [u][b]full[/b][/u], and it needs to get rid of some students, one way or another.  The farther away an MS is, the easier it is to make a case for dropping.  Especially if it is NOT a largely inbounds school that's majority minority (like the Bancroft to Deal to Wilson feeder pattern, eliminating it gives DCPS more of a black-eye).  With shiny, new facilities at Eastern, or Cardozo, or Dunbar, it will be harder to object, especially as an OOB family.  FS families will be expected to go along with the changes and be grateful.  Eastern is not going to get the high SES students it wants from the Hill, because the Hill families are not getting the high-SES MS that they want.  Actually, as of the official school-closure list, Eastern will fill up some with the leftovers from Springarn.  The hopes for high performance are eddying around the drain.  The new Cardozo should hasten the demise of Roosevelt and Coolidge, but that's another post.

Bottom line: nobody at FS is going to get an easy ticket into Walls.  The demand at Walls has increased, the number of applications has increased.  Walls is harder to get into now, not easier.  If kids from Deal & Hardy & SH are finding it more competitive, there's no way anyone from FS gets a pass.  Sorry, but that is ridiculous.  It's not a neighborhood school, it's not a charter, it doesn't have to concern itself with proximity.  Growing Walls makes sense, but not by adding FS students.  Why expand the school only to kill the value of the brand?  Tens of millions have been spent to improve the comprehensive HSs to expand and improve the system - shifting a middling-to-low-performing population into a competitive program is contrary to everyone's interests.  Moving FS students away from [i]Wilson[/i] makes great sense (most of them don't live in the area anyway), if it's not Eastern, then it will be Cardozo or Dunbar.  It won't be Walls.  The money was not spent on the comprehensive high schools, only to feed students into an application-entry school, without an application.  The suggestion is completely illogical.

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