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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I, quite frankly, lay this issue at the feet of DCPS. For years, they used OOB as an escape valve for pent up demand for high quality education in other neighborhoods. Rather than doing the hard work of creating quality schools throughout the district, they sat back and let motivated parents cluster into just a few schools. To me, it is absolutely crazy that high-SES neighborhoods such as 16th Street Heights and Crestwood don't have their own high quality options. Why is Shepherd only 28% in bounds? It's a great little school in a great neighborhood. It's an embarrassment that AA and other minority students still have to travel to predominantly white neighborhoods for a quality education. [/quote]

Totally with you.  Better options are likely highly achievable just east of the Park in neighborhoods from Dupont up to Shepherd Park.  But DCPS has not done things to capture those neighborhood families in the schools that are in those areas, and the entire system has suffered for it.  Absolutely.

And what's more, if those schools improved, more people would want to stay in DC and settle in those areas, spreading out much of the real esate value across the City.  DC and DCPS had an opportunity, and they still do, as the system grows.[/quote]

another +1[/quote]

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