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[quote=Anonymous]In that process those families were clearly told that th

[quote=Anonymous]And let's not conveniently forget that those OOB students won their spots NOT because a school or school community is particularly generous or kind but because those schools and their principals wanted to maximize their budgets and fill every open enrollment seat. Period. [/quote]

So what's your point?

My point is that those WotP schools accepted OOB students via an officially sanctioned policy which enabled (enables) those schools to maximize their budgets and resources, resources which IB students at those schools benefit from too. You simply cannot tell those OOB families who have invested in those school communities and where friendships, teacher relationships and education paths have been established to get out, particularly when you've (meaning DCPS) already assured those families that they allowed to stay as a matter of policy. Those OOB families made a commitment to DCPS and the Chancellor and Mayor will have to honor that. In the meantime they need to seriously work on improving schools so that the next crop if children might stick with DCPS rather than abandon the system for charters. [/quote]

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