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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, as long as there are OOB spots offered at these excellent schools, SOMEONE in the city will be willing to drive across town for them. SOMEONE in the city will have a bad IB.

suppose for the sake of argument there are a lot of Ward 4 people OOB at Hearst and Eaton right now. So following your logic, you work hard on improving Ward 4 options (which would be a worthy thing in and of itself!). What do you find 10 years later, are all the OOB spots going unclaimed? No, they are now filled by families from Wards 7 and 8.

So long as OOB spots at excellent schools are offered, there will be applicants, until every single school in DC is great. And especially when it's not just elementary on offer but a path to grade 12.

Just trying to offer some realism to this conversation! 
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That's a perceptive point.  So that means the DCPS goal of solving the overcapacity problem at Deal and Wilson by "drawing" or attracting students to other schools is ultimately doomed to failure.  For every group of students you draw out by improving their neighborhood school, another group of OOB students will fill their place.  Does this suggest that DCPS's proposed approach is doomed to failure, and it needs to use a different approach?[/quote]

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