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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not IB for Oyster Adams but I won't vote for Proposal B because it means the kids will have to go to a worse high school. I don't think that's fair to those families.[/quote]

Something else to consider:  Oyster sends about 1/3 to just under 1/2 of its graduates to Wilson each year.  The vast majority of the students in Oyster's graduating classes are Hispanic.  So Proposal B would effectively send a largely Hispanic group of kids to the failing Cardozo, where before they could go to Wilson.  Many of these kids are (presumably) from lower income immigrant families.  So this proposal really harms the most vulnerable students at Oyster--it sounds as if a case for disparate impact can be made against this proposal.[/quote]

Yeah, by all means be sure to use low income Hispanic kids as pawns in your game to keep high income white kids from being assigned to schools with poor AA kids.  The typical NW resident makes the segregationists of 1960s Georgia and 1970s South Boston look good.  At least they were honest about their intentions.  [/quote]

What an idiotic response.  Oyster is an incredibly diverse school that works for its diverse population.

High income white, AA and Latino kids may be "assigned" to Cardozo, but none will go there.  No current parent who has a choice will send their kids to Cardozo. Zero. In fact, I expect this plan even being discussed will lead to a collapse in the population of kids that continue to Adams from Oyster next year, with a resulting plunge in test scores.  The ONLY effect of this idea will be to screw the people who don't have a choice and trash one of the few DCPS schools that works.  Great work DME!  Congratulations!!![/quote]

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