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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Capitol Hill is actually the perfect example to demonstrate why such heavy emphasis on boundaries makes no sense at all. By starting this discussion based on the % of IB children, you completely disregard that in fact a great many children at all of the Capitol Hill schools live in Capitol Hill (subtract those that actually live in MD). The IB numbers at all of our schools we're all picking schools from around here that don't happen to be our IB schools, sometimes simply because the official boundaries are totally screwed up. Brent kids go to Watkins, Watkins kids go to Maury, Miner kids go to Ludlow-Taylor, J.O. Wilson Kids attend Brent, those in turn attend SWS and Logan Montessori, Tyler has kids from from all other Capitol Hill boundaries due to Spanish, likewise J.O. Wilson due to French, so on and so forth. I'd claim that if you drew one big boundary for what you think of "Capitol Hill Schools" and examined how many kids within all of these schools are from within that boundary, I'd guess you'd be at about 75% to 80%. Can someone run the data please to prove me wrong?
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[b]Or a crazy idea -- you could provide your own data to support your own argument.   Not sure I really follow what you're saying anyway[/b][/quote]

Alright, I will if someone could please re-post the link to the data. As for comprehension of my argument, try this:
If, for argument's sake, say I live on 10th St SE, thus IB for Watkins but really like nearby Brent better and take my kids there, my two kids will be recorded as OOB at Brent. You, meanwhile live in the Brent boundary but really feel strongly about Watkins' school garden and Stuart-Hobson as your MS feeder and therefore send your kids to Watkins, you too are recorded as OOB. In fact, both of us are recorded as OOB although neither one of us lives far from those schools and we would probably think of ourselves as "IB", certainly compared to someone who does an hour-long commute from Ward 5, 7, or 8. Got that? Now try to think of almost everyone doing what I describe the two of us doing. Right, that makes all of us OOB. In sum, we're all OOB, yet we're not really.[/quote]

Boundaries are boundaries, regardless of OOB proximity, whether you want to "think" 10th Street is IB for Brent, and CH is increasingly socioeconomic ally homogeneous.  Perhaps it would have made more sense for DCPS to have retained the Hine site and merged a number of elementary schools into another Janney as part of an effort to remediate the Balkanization we now have, but no one was that forward thinking.[/quote]

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