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Why on God's green earth are they trying to shoehorn so many kids onto this one spot of land?[/quote]

Because everyone in the city wants to go to school EOTP.[/quote]

You mean, because folks EOTP are obsessed with avoiding their own schools, and end up overcrowding WOTP schools.

Bunch of hipocrites [/quote]

yep, this.  Looking at you especially, Crestwood / Mt. Pleasant / 16th St Hts.     People of some means who don't actually want to be with the people.  [/quote]

That's rich. For decades, schools like Murch counted on OOB students to make them viable because inboundary families went private, refusing to attend. Families in those neighborhoods you mention with distain availed themselves of a legal policy established by the District government (ability for OOB children to enroll in any public school) finding workable school solutions for their children while ensuring those schools remain full. Flash forward, down economy, crazy real estate prices and inboundary families have suddenly determined they will send their kids public after all. Great, but the city is never going eject elementary students from their school communities because new money families suddenly want those pesky OOB kids gone, now that you've determined that they have exhausted their usefulness. Not gonna happen. You are going to wait as those children matriculate. Don't like it? Go private. OOB will fade away as schools stop making the spots available because inboundary families start commuting to enrolling. Oh, and stop bailing on your school after 3rd or 4th grade to go private and the school won't be forced to go to the OOB wait list to plug the budget shortfall you created by leaving early. It's inevitable that those OOB 4th and 5th graders will have younger siblings, thus prolonging the OOB matriculation waiting game. [/quote]

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