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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are going to have to create another by-right HS WoTP, right?

To me, it's only a matter of time.[/quote]

Or change the feeder pattern and route some students to another by-right high school.[/quote]

Or stop letting kids who got into an elementary or middle school OOB continue on through the feeder pattern. If you get a lottery spot at Hearst, you're there through 5th grade and that's the only guarantee you get. Deal figures out how many extra spaces it has and does a lottery for them (DCPS could give a preference for OOB kids at feeder schools though personally I'd rather they didn't). Same with high school.

There are fewer than 1000 IB kids at Wilson now. The school is not out of room by any means. Having some of the OOB kids attending their IB high schools (which should get more funding for things like honors and AP classes even if the classes are tiny at first, extracurriculars, guidance counselors, etc.) would be better for those schools and better for traffic and better for the district as a whole.  [/quote]

The way OOB feeder rights work is destabilizing to public education in the rest of the city. [/quote]

Depends on your POV.  Many people would say that decoupling address from school patterns is one of the factors that keeps people invested in public education in one form or another.

Forcing families into schools they don't like and don't trust led to white flight generations ago and then black flight (more of a DC phenomenon).  So far, there is massive under-capacity across the system with very few exceptions.  You can [i]entice[/i] families to try a school they're on the fence about, but you can't [i]force[/i] them.  Human nature hasn't changed in a decade.  [/quote]

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