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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's pretty obvious.  "Neighborhood preference" is just another way of saying inbounds.  (I realize that DCPS has "OOB with proximity" for the lottery, but if there is no IB option, like at SWS, then a proximity preference would essentially be IB.)  They don't want another IB school practically right next to Ludlow Taylor.  They are pouring a lot of money into LT to renovate it-- why would they then go ahead and undermine it by plopping another IB school next to it?  People get pissy enough when they don't get a spot in the PS/PK lottery-- you think folks are going to be happy when they are shut out of their quasi-inbounds school and have to go to the "less than" LT?

There is no upside for DCPS to make this an IB (or if you prefer, "neighborhood preference") school.  None.  [/quote]

If DCPS allows OOB with proximity preference at all other city schools [b](except CHM)[/b] why should this school be different?  I have OOB with proximity preference at Maury and it hasn't undermined  my IB school (Peabody). Proximity preference is much smaller than an IB catchment area and doesn't affect that many kids. [/quote]

There you go - the exception that probed the rule.  DCPS does [u]not[/u] have proximity preference for all other city schools.[/quote]

No. It very oddly does not give proximity preference at only two elementary schools, both in the same part of Capitol Hill.  The fact that the only two city-wide schools are located within blocks of each other is maddening to people who live across the street from these schools.  If there are other city-wide schools, please name then here because I am unaware of any other DCPS school that does not give neighborhood preference. [b] I do not understand why people on Capitol Hill are turning a blind eye to the outsourcing of their quality elementary schools when no other neighborhood in the city has stood for this kind of treatment at the hands of DCPS.[/b]  If all the sudden Murch or Janney became city-wide schools there would be holy hell unleashed by the residents of upper NW. [/quote]

To be fully honest, the only other neighborhood(s) in the city where there are quality elementary schools in the first place are west of the park.  The comparison doesn't hold however, because those have [i]always[/i] been higher SES, majority white, high-quality elementaries, serving families with higher levels of education in the home.  So, it's leaning towards a strongman argument to suggest that the Hill is being deprived of something available to the rest of DC.  It's not.[/quote]

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