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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cannot force people into underperforming schools. The suburbs have been and will continue to be the alternative to this, if OOB and charters don’t work out.
If DCPS offered tracking, gifted programming, or advanced coursework in some high schools that would go some ways towards attracting families that would otherwise opt out. Carrots not sticks.[/quote]

I get this, but the upthread comment is legit. WOTP full, Charters full, gentrifiers don't want 90-plus percent low-income African American schools = probably some people moving to the suburbs or changing their opinions of what's available.

If not suburbs, then some interesting changes are going to happen as some white, upper class people accommodate themselves to being tiny minorities in schools aimed at children who aren't testing at grade level.[/quote]

Here is how you solve this problem - you don't move some tiny slice of UMC kids to MacFarland/Roosevelt or Wells/Coolidge and nibble around the edges here - you need to move a massive chunk of kids at once and completely change the complexion of the schools.

So you don't move just Shepherd Park and it 60 kids per grade - you pair the move with Lafayette and its 160 kids per grade and suddenly that pair of schools isn't 90% low income minority anymore - if you moved that many kids at once the new schools would suddenly have a similar racial make-up to Deal and would probably be whiter than Deal was just a couple of years ago.

And no Wells, contrary to what someone keeps posting, is not over capacity.  Now it could not take 220 kids without some other boundary adjustments but that is not hard to do as some kids could be moved to MacFarland and in either case neither school would be nearly as big nor as overcrowded as Deal already is.[/quote]

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