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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]14:53 again.  Maybe one additional argument you're making is that they should feed Wilson/Deal because they were previously designated to feed Deal, and that prior designation gives them some position that cannot be changed.  Is that your other argument?[/quote]

Take a look again at point (1) above: incremental change is better than radical change. If it ain't broke, we don't fix it. Bancroft, Shepherd and Eaton families are voting for Deal through their attendance choices, so here we have a situation where everyone is happy with their MS option. So we don't remove anyone unless we need to and have good reasons, and we try to apply rational criteria when we do have to choose which school(s) to remove.

Now it's me who is having a hard time understanding what you are advocating. Do you want to remove all seven Deal feeders and make Deal the by-right school for Capitol Hill? Do you want to open Deal to the whole city via lottery with no proximity preference?

If you don't agree with incremental change, then that's your right, but it's obviously a major principle underpinning this proposal and it's a direct result of the feedback the DME received. The message loud and clear was that people want incremental change, not radical change like choice sets or opening up Deal and Wilson to city-wide access or stripping Deal of multiple feeders for no reason that anyone can articulate.

Anyway, I took the time to lay out a detailed argument, and your response was just to keep asking the same question. If I haven't convinced you, so be it. You have not identified what your IB school is, or what you propose for Deal or what your views are on any aspect of the proposal. If you'd like to do that here, I'd be genuinely interested to hear your views, and more importantly, you should share them with the DME. Maybe you have some good ideas, or maybe you are simply upset about how the proposal affects you (or how it fails to help you), or maybe you are just killing a slow summer day on DCUM. I respect any of these motives! I just don't know which it is.

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