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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Point 1 is huge. As someone who does travel 3 miles to her school, it's a huge task every day. In a city like this we are not set up for this kind of travel, buses do not go from Ward to Ward, metro is super expensive and not close to many of the schools, so this forces parents to drive.

Right now, there are only a few parents making this horrific commute (yes, 3 miles can be about an hour each way or more daily). Imagine in 25% of the parents started taking on even 1/2 of that trip.

[/quote] DCPS position - based on the data - is that this is already happening. Large proportion of kids at OOB /city wide schools. So any change would be at the margins.[/quote]

but we all know there is poor data is the system.  what family in upper NW is sending their child to Anacostia High School?  
OTO - there are a lot if "IB" families at desireable schools that are really OOB and we know have gamed the system.

Folks - you know the discussions around would you turn in a family that you knew was cheating?  Maybe now that this will impact you - your answer is different?
If you knew that there were 25 families lying about residency at Janney - and now your neighbors are going to be zoned for Hearst - does this change things?[/quote]

Hearst is a great school and we would welcome families from Murch and Janney into our community.[/quote]

But would you welcome kids from Walker Jones into your community?[/quote]

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