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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not think so.
More students at Hardy = more students at Wilson.

Feeder rights for Shepherd and Bancroft into Deal/Wilson have been established and confirmed for political reasons and to please their IB constituency . Bowser's Ward 4 Crestwood voters have been recently rewarded with extended rights into the over-over-crowded  Deal and Wilson...

An enlarged Hardy would only benefit a relatively small number of OB students, not a well-defined constituency.

An enlarged Hardy would just worsen Wilson overcrowding (a severe problem for DCPS) without bringing political returns.

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I agree. I do not see this happening. [/quote]

Obviously neither of you have been paying attention to what's been going on in the past ten years at DCPS. Capacity has been increased willy-nilly in the Deal and Wilson feeders with no regard for the future consequences. Ninety percent of DCPS schools are under-enrolled, so when there's a school that people actually want to go to, DCPS crams as many kids in as possible, and then crams in some more. The sole beneficiary of these expansions have been OOB students -- the majority of kids who go to school in Ward 3 don't live in Ward 3 -- and OOB kids are an extremely important constituency in DCPS. In recent years Hardy hasn't turned anyone away in the lottery and has had trouble meeting its enrollment goals. If Hardy starts attracting students, it is going to grow, grow, and grow some more. That's the way DCPS rolls. If the demand is there Hardy could rival Deal for size -- Fillmore can move somewhere else, and they can put trailers in the parking lot.[/quote]

Exactly, PP.  [/quote]

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