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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know you can't force people to attend their in-bound school, but I wish you could - maybe the city could give some kind of tax credit for attending your neighborhood school if it is currently less than a certain percentage in bounds and meets other criteria and possibly give them a weighted better chance of OOB lottery if the whole experiment fails and they end up re-imposing OOB lottery. [/quote]

A better concept is "encourage" or "incentivize," with options that are actually attractive.   With so many people clamoring for good neighborhood options, you'd think DCPS would be working on doing this.  e.g. -- get neighborhood families to sign up by offering enrichment programs, increased police protection, after-school programs, better playgrounds, whatever.

Keep in mind if you switched all the kids from a JKLM to a closed, previously failing school in ward 8, that school would suddenly be as successful as the kids' previous school -- with a few points taken off for the long commute everyday and a lack of neighborhood camaraderie.

This is what your neighborhood school would be like if a critical mass of neighbors sent their kids to it.  Plain and simple.  THere's no other way to do it. It takes DCPS and parents to make it happen.

Is there enough trust and commitment to make this happen?[/quote]

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