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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's all very simple - Kaya is going to take the path of least resistance, which is likely Do Nothing.  Wilson will remain overcrowded unless she either she removes the OOB feeder rights, or she cuts out more feeder schools altogether.  Touching OOB feeder rights is a political nightmare - if she hasn't done it now after all that DME business, no way she is going to do it with a new mayor.  Rerouting more elementary schools to a different HS feeder pattern is also a political nightmare; and it will likely cause some hiccups in enrollment in those schools that are re-routed, which doesn't help her "success rate" in her final years at the helm.  I think she is going to wait it out and let the next person deal with it.[/quote]

Making changes to the OOB stuff was discussed ad nauseum throughout the DME process and it was made very clear throughout, and at every level, that the OOB program and the ability for students attending an elementary to have rights to the feeder middle and high schools, was not going to change. And I'm generally in agreement with that. In fact, the DME went even further by creating required OOB set-asides. While I don't agree with that, I do think it's right and appropriate to allow students from an elementary to take the next step to the middle and then high school, regardless if they were IB or OOB. The only exception in my mind are families that lottery into an elementary in 5th grade, because at that point it does seem that the family may be making the move mainly to get into that feeder path and those students haven't been with their cohort of school friends for more than a year. But OOB kids that attend an elementary starting in PK or K shouldn't get booted. Anyway that's my opinion and I know there are plenty that disagree. But again, the DME, OSSE, DCPS and the mayor have all made it plainly clear that the "nix OOB" calls will go unanswered. I can't help but to think that the Chancellor is sort of banking on the idea that some families will self-select NOT to attend Wilson and that will somehow manage the size (because it's too big, because application schools are a draw, because Ellington reopens and is beautiful and promising, etc.). [/quote]

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