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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just end feeder rights.  That should allow Deal’s and Wilson’s enrollments to stabilize.  It will also focus needed attention on schools EOTP.  A win-win.[/quote]

The problem is then DCPS would have to come up with a number for what the actual capacities of Deal and Wilson are in order to determine how many OOB kids to let in. If you've followed the school crowding working group at all, one of the issues is that DCPS has no methodology for establishing capacity of schools, and really doesn't want to. There's no reason to believe they would set the capacities any lower that whatever they need to let all of the feeder kids continue. [/quote]

Don’t forget that a lot of the OOB at Deal and Wilson are OOB students who continue from zoned elementary schools and under DCPS logic are then called ‘feeder’ students.[/quote]

A lot? Try all. Neither Deal nor Wilson has admitted kids through the lottery in years. DCPS doesn't know what the capacity of the schools is, but they know it's not more than what they have. [/quote]

But the problem is that elementary feeder schools still take lottery kids despite being over capacity.  That’s kakakookoo.  And then they do to Deal and Wilson.[/quote]

That's why people are talking about limiting OOB feeder rights. [/quote]

The only people talking about that is white people who love DC except for all the black people who forgot to move out when the city changed. As long as the power dynamic still lets ward 8 pick the mayor, OOB rights aren’t going anywhere. Wilson/deal is a city school not ward 3, they need more NE & SE kids while the other wards need more ward 3 kids. Bottom line[/quote]

Don’t forget the political pull of ‘Ward 9’ as well.  Ten percent of Deal and Wilson students actually live there!

But the trend is that Chocolate City is melting fast.  Amazon will accelerate that.  In 10 it 15 years, Washington DC will be very different, even in Ward 8.[/quote]

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