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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys kill me with the Shepherd argument. Shepherd is a school of 300 kids. Only two 5th grade classes. History shows only 25-30 students per year come from Shepherd. How are they contributing to the overcrowding? Choose your battles wisely. This looks like a white wash and I am white saying this.[/quote]

You can't move Lafayette to Coolidge and not move Shepherd. And a middle school with feeders of Brightwood, Takoma, LaSalle-Backus, Shepherd, Lafayette, and Whittier would actually be pretty diverse: in 5-10 years, probably not that different from Hardy now, which is 51% black, 9% Asian, 20% white, and 18% Latino. [/quote]

No room at New North middle, which will be collocates to Coolidge. The kids now in the feeder upper grades (all ECs) will fill it up.

Also let’s be real for a moment. The mayor now has a baby who will be IB for Shepherd. It isn’t being moved out of the feeder pattern anytime soon. [/quote]

Plenty of room at New North + Coolidge, which are adjacent to each other. The 8th graders can be located at the high school in a separate wing. Once the combined schools are looking full, DCPS can re-evaluate the feeder pattern and potentially shift more kids to Roosevelt or Dunbar. But that would be years away. DCPS should be so lucky as to have Coolidge even close to capacity.[/quote]

Since there is so much room Janney should feed into New North as well to ensure there is true diversity. [/quote]

I didn’t realize Janney was in Ward 4. [/quote]

So now schools can only be routed to middle in the ward they are in? Someone should tell someone Stoddert, Mann, and Eaton need to be routed to Deal immediately being that they are in Ward 3 and Hardy is Ward 2.[/quote]

Great idea!  Simple way to set some boundaries. [/quote]

You still would have over-crowding. Bus Janney and Murch to McFarland and/or New North. [/quote]

Not if Lafayette, all EOTP schools and all OOB are moved. [/quote]

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