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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Percentage of schools is the wrong measure, it should be percentage of students. Deal and  Wilson are less than 2% of DCPS schools but over 8% of the students.[/quote]

The wrong measure for what?  What does your post even mean?  The story is about the number of schools that do or don't impose a uniform.  The decision-making is on a school by school basis, not kid by kid. So the proper measure is [b]number of schools[/b].  
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What I mean is that the quoted statistic might make you think that the overwhelming majority of kids in DCPS wear uniforms. But kids are not evenly distributed by any measure in DCPS. So number of schools is not a good measure of popularity. Percentage of students is a better measure, and it's only loosely related to number of schools. For example, there are 11 middle schools in DCPS. Together they have 4790 students. One school, Deal, has 1312 students -- more than the five smallest schools combined, and 27% of the total.  The article mentions that no school in Ward 3 has uniforms. Ward 3 happens to have all of the biggest schools. It has the biggest high school -- Wilson-- the biggest middle school -- Deal -- and two of the three biggest elementaries -- Murch and Janney. The biggest elementary is Lafayette, which is just over the border (and doesn't have uniforms).  Those five schools have a combined enrollment of around 7500 kids, which is about one sixth of DCPS. Yet they're only five schools out of around 120. [/quote]

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