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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I know I'm personalizing this but you popped up as the Crestwood DCPS parent.  I assume that before Deal/Wilson your child did not follow the DCPS feeder pattern.  So few do, by either opting out of DCPS or going west for a Deal feeder, I feel like no accommodation should be made for Crestwood at all.[/quote]

I don't follow your logic. Are you suggesting that parents that don't send their kids to their in-boundary elementary schools should be punished by being redistricted out of their current middle and high schools? Can you further explain your position? 
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Sure.  Parents who don't put their kids in DCPS or follow the student assignment and feeder patterns should be given less weight in the student assignment and feeder pattern process.[/quote]

What would be the goal and end result of such a policy? As I understand it, redistricting is supposed to solve the problem of overcrowding. If you change Crestwood's middle and high school boundaries, you would have almost no impact on overcrowding. Additional changes with more impact would still have to be made.

Not only is Crestwood a relatively small neighborhood that sends few students to Deal or Wilson, it's in-boundary elementary schools don't feed to either of those schools. So, you can't even add out-of-boundary students at those schools to the mix. In contrast, feeder elementaries channel OOB students in addition to those living inbounds.

Therefore, it's not like there would be a choice between redistricting either Shepherd Park or Crestwood or a choice between Eaton or Crestwood. The choice would more likely be Shepherd Park or Eaton. Crestwood would serve no purpose toward resolving overcrowding. Your argument rests entirely on vindictiveness resulting from the fact that our local elementary schools are not as good as the feeder schools. That hardly seems like the basis of good policy-making.
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