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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at Murch and constantly hear about how overcrowded the school is.  Anyone have insight into why Murch is accepting 10 OOB per grade next year, whereas Janney/Lafayette/etc. each have 0 to 2 OOB spots for each grade?  I certainly understand the impulse to increase diversity and how OOB student do (and have traditionally) enriched the student body, but how can the crumbling and full to the gills facilities accept 60 more students?[/quote]

OP, where did you get this information?  Is it published somewhere?[/quote]

OP here.  It's available on myschooldc.org.  Gaming the system or not, this seems like a ridiculous result.  You still have to put those extra classes somewhere (i.e., more trailers.) And there are other issues -- stresses on specials, getting into extracurricular classes, sense of community -- that a larger student body certainly impacts.  Besides the fact that it really seems to undercut the constant moaning about how overcrowded our school is if we are offering 10% of our spaces each year to OOB students.   I agree with other posters, if my home was in the portion of the former Murch boundary that was rezoned to Hearst, I would be livid.  Not that Hearst is not a great school -- it is -- but that the impetus behind the boundary reconfiguration is a complete fallacy when this many OOB kids are added every year.[/quote]

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