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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How long will these schools continue to accept OOB students, take the money, and cry about "lack of space"?[/quote]

NP:  Would you listen?!  These schools are overcrowded because [b]"Downtown" told them they have to take more kids[/b].  DCPS wants OOB kids to be anle to go to the good NW schools even though there is no space.  As mentioned already, these schools have done things like make offices out of partial stairwell landings.  It's absurd and uncomfortable.  But the schools have been coerced.[/quote]

We don't believe this.[/quote]

This definitely has happened at Murch [/quote]

This happens at Key.  there is no capacity in the footprint of the school location to add ANOTHER trailer - there are already two.  The school has special ed in a broom closet.  The school enrollment has doubled in the past 15 years - no exaggeration.  And they still were told by DCPS to open up OOB spaces in K-2 b/c they want to have the % available at any WOTP schools that they can - and also the school gets attrition in the upper grades but are overloaded in the lower grades.  It is not about the budget (if you've ever been to the auction or seen the PTA dues -- it's already heavily supplemented...)  So, these kids should not have an arts program?  Or have a substandard arts program?  And continue to keep the 5ths in the trailers...[/quote]

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