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[quote=Anonymous]This assumes (and I hope the assumption is correct) that Hardy, like the feeders, will not just expand.  I think that assumption must be correct because the greatest thing Hardy has to offer vs Deal is a small school.

But to all you wonderful economists out there - just remember that while parents can behave somewhat less rationally than economists would predict when it comes to their progeny, almost nothing DCPS does makes economic sense, and DCPS can do a lot of damage if it decides to - just look at the the recent (under Kaya) attempt to destroy SWW, budget cuts at Wilson, expensive renovations for empty high schools.

And the most logical economic action the DME could have taken but did not - abolish the automatic feeder rights for OOB kids that Michelle Rhee established in 2009.  Pre-2009, if you were OOB and got into an ES, you had to play the lottery again for MS and again for HS.  Her legacy is what created the overcrowding at Deal and Wilson, and the DME's cowardice is what continued it.

One question: does anyone think the 20% OOB requirement for "at risk" kids (if it is ever implemented) could change/destroy any of these equations or predictions, especially at schools that are small like Hardy?[/quote]

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