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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But why would you assume a new school in NW will be a good school, and a revitalized school EotP will be a bad school?  Whatever might make the new NW school good can surely be replicated at an EotP school, can't it?[/quote]
I would not assume that, but others here do. It's a shorthand version of the old "White is right" line of thinking. I'm all in favor of building strong, sustainable schools close to where kids live, and in this city that means 80% EOTP.[/quote]
I understand your line of thinking -- that some people would rather build a new school and commute to it, just because they think more white students must yield a better school -- but I'm seriously doubting their view is quite so simple. I'm hoping to get someone who is an advocate of a new WotP school to explain how she views it in her own words.[/quote]

WoTP parent here.  I'll take a stab on my take.  Mind you, most of this is anecdotal.  I don't have the numbers to back this up, and I encourage people to correct me if I'm wrong.  Here is how I see overcrowding issue for IB students in the Wilson feeder schools in Upper NW .  The upcoming classes of students at Janney, Lafayette and Murch alone (5 classes per grade at some levels) could add up to the majority of available slots per grade at Deal and Wilson in a couple of years.  I'm not even talking about OOB students at these schools.  Add in the smaller number of student from ther other elementary schools that currently feed into Deal, and I think that overcrowding is a real possibility.  This is why the DME is proposing moving some schools out of Deal and suggesting contingencies in the event of overcrowding for HS in WoTP elementary and MS zones (i.e., Oyster, Eaton and Hardy).  If this is a reality, and kids who live within a mile or two south of Wilson are forced out because of overcrowding, where do they go?  This question concerns me greatly.  I don't know the answer.

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