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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, the whole thing strikes me as pretty reasonable.  Not perfect, but close enough and probably should go forward despite some people still being unhappy.

But I have to say that it makes me wonder again if all of the craziest stuff was all a screen for us to be happy with these changes.  If this version was the first version, folks would be fighting hard over small changes and maybe even that wouldn't get through.  This way we get to be relieved.[/quote]

Maybe -- or they realized their original plan would mean mass hysteria and mass exit to the suburbs, and so backed off, perhaps influenced more by real estate developers than by frantic parents.  Whatever.

I suspect that parents had been so malleable up to now - willing to play the lottery with their kids'  education and settle for long commutes - that many expected they would continue to go along. When that  didn't happen, those in power realized they had to respond adequately, or screw up the whole gentrification of DC -- which  is their #1 goal.  I suppose they've looked at the demographic patterns and know very well that there is an increasingly favorable SES spread across the city, ensuring more good schools outside of NW.  It may screw up some plans for more charter openings, but it will keep more high income families in DC, which is the name of the game.[/quote]

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