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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry you think it's vindictiveness.  Grandfathering will obviously occur, as has been promised many times, and I don't think we'll change people's minds who have their kid at Deal with an eye toward Wilson.  This process is not for peope who are only in the system for 5 more years as clearly we only revisit assignment patterns every 40-50 years or so.

People on that lip of Mt. Pleasant, Crestwood, and west of 16th St. NW east of the Park might say that they need continued access of right to Deal and Wilson, but they clearly are using the lottery en masse if they are using DCPS elementaries at all because their children are not enrolled at West, Powell, Brightwood and other schools that should serve their neighborhoods, though apparently they are enrolling at Bancroft and Shepherd.  If they will use the lottery at elementary ages to follow their preferred pattern, let these parents do it at older ages.  To be cynical, apparently they will do so no matter what happens, so why do we even take them into account?

Look there is an opportunity here.  McFarland is closed but demand in that area is increasing as seen at the elementary level.  The school can be reopened and remade into whatever people in that area want it to be, I truly believe that.  Roosevelt is about to be entirely rebuilt.  What programs should go there if it is to attract Crestwood families?

If you want a particular program, you can try to get it put in there.  But if these opportunities to shape these schools exist and people still insist on avoiding the local schools and going across the Park, I think their justifications are about uneasiness about the children who live in the rest of the City.  And that is unfortunate, as a real income mix lives in the area and is increasing and good diverse schools can come from that if we choose it.[/quote]

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