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The crisis is that with the OOB feeder system, there's no place to put the ever-growing population of students who all have rights to attend the same TWO schools.[/quote]

This only applies to Deal, Wilson and JKLMM schools, 5 elementary and one middle and one high school.  The rest of DCPS are underenrolled with very few exceptions like Ross.[/quote]

Would it be fair to say that there are two crises - an overcrowding crisis in the schools you list, plus a quality crisis elsewhere - and that this plan attempts to address those two crises, and other problems that do not rise to the leve of crisis, at the same time?  [/quote]

Exactly. The first is a new problem reflecting improving schools, and the second is an old problem that we should have been addressing for years.[/quote]

and I would go further to say charters are a mixed blessing in that they provided relief for some from poor quality schools and really stalled improvement of other schools that could have been just as good as the charter schools that parents fled to, if parents had stayed to improve their assigned neighborhood school[/quote]

Not sure why you think Charters have somehow stalled wonderful school reform... It's not like DCPS was previously on the brink of city-wide success.[/quote]

I made no mention of "wonderful school reform" - but of parents improving assigned neighborhood school -- which is different.  By the way, DC is still not on the brink of city-wide success, despite charters, attempts at school reform and parents staying to improve neighborhood schools.

Right now, reading DCUM  at least, parents don't want an all charter system and don't want to send their kids to low-scoring neighborhood schools. They want the neighborhood schools to be good before sending their kids to them but know the schools only become good when a critical mass of kids their like their kids are already in them.  The only acceptable schools are ones that are already overcrowded  in a part of town most parents don't live in. They clamor to get their kids into those schools, while expressing disdain for the IB families and the long commute.  They don't like the chance aspect of charters and don't trust DCPS to make their neighborhood schools acceptable.

They are between a rock and a hard place that is[b]  in some part of their own making. [/b] They are educated people who care greatly about their kids.  I hope they can find a way out of this.[/quote]

Nope.  DCPS made the crappy schools.  Parents didn't.  Looks like you have a vested interest in pushing the blame where it doesn't belong.[/quote]

I am not the PP.  The educated parents in gentrifying neighborhoods either knew the schools were crappy or were willfully ignorant.  I think dcps has an obligation to improve the schools and I think that gentrification is a large part of what is making such improvement possible in many places.  That said, I disagree that parents that had choices are blameless in finding themselves stuck without good options.  This sentiment does not apply to families whose homes are being moved out of the boundaries for high performing schools to failing schools.[/quote]

I'm an educated parent. I've lived in my neighborhood in one form or another since the 90s when I was in my 20s.  So basically I should move out of the city because I'm an educated parent and leave the city schools for the "uneducated parents"  :roll: [/quote]

Of course not. Thanks for clarifying how important it is to improve DC PS for all.[/quote]

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