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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be pretty interesting if they end up opposite of Watkins -- racially mixed to fairly white older classrooms and more low-SES younger classrooms because of the citywide lottery. Will it feed to SH or EH MS? If SH, Brent parents are going to boil over.[/quote]

It won't work this way, not when diversity hinges on access in downtown neighborhoods where socioeconomic mixing is tapering off.  The $60,000 question is will families be repsonsible for getting kids to a boundary-less SWS, as at charters, or will they be bused in, like special needs kids?  It's one thing to give a SWW or Banneker teenager a $30/month Metro pass, another altogether for an ES child to reach a distant school.  I can't see DCPS paying for busing kids without special needs.

I predict that SWS will remain a strongly high-SES school in an increasingly affluent neighborhood.  No shortage of evidence that low-SES families struggle to get their kids to ES charters outside neighborhoods where they have extended family ties.   E.g. there are very few low-SES Yu Ying families that don't hail from Brookland/Petworth.  A city-wide lottery is really only good as low-SES access.  Also, low-SES families don't mob the same schools or programs that are popular with the high-SES crowd, even if they can - look at the racial make-up of Tyler SI (mostly white a block from the almost entirely black Potomac Gardens housing project).   If low-SES parents see a lot of white faces as at SWS--administrators, teachers, parents, kids--they conclude that their children won't fit in easily (because they won't).   [/quote]

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