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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they want to improve crowding at Wilson, what other choice would they have then take out Hardy? Seems pretty likely, right?[/quote]

[b]Or they could say that only IB folks have a right to attend Wilson. If you got into Adams, Hardy, or Deal or their feeders through the OOB lottery, or if you moved OOB after starting to attend any of those schools, you'd have to lottery in to any available seats at Wilson.[/b]

Or they could cut Bancroft and Shepherd out of Deal (send Bancroft to CHEC or Roosevelt; send Shepherd to Coolidge).

Or send Hyde and some others to Cardozo along with Francis-Stevens and Ross.

Or make Wilson a citywide test-in school.

Or do a citywide lottery for all high schools.

All of these would cause a huge amount of political tumult. But they would certainly right-size Wilson.[/quote]

your above bolded option was the only way to get into any WOTP school until Rhee changed the law in 2009 - you used to have to lottery into ES, MS and HS if you were OOB.  These rights have existed for so few years I will never understand why the boundary folks lacked the political guts to abolish or just grandfather them.  Wilson overcrowding problem solved, presto![/quote]

Is this true?  Many of these schools have few OOB kids in the lower grades.[/quote]

Yes, but kids leave in the upper grades and OOB kids fill the seats.  That's how they get in to Deal, Hardy, and Adams--and from there they now have rights to Wilson. This year, here's how many OOB seats for 4th and 5th grade were offered at a selection of schools:

Bancroft: 10
Eaton: 4
Hearst: 6
Hyde: 0
Janney: 0
Key: 6
Lafayette: 0
Mann: 9
Murch: 10
Oyster: 9
Shepherd: 5
Stoddert: 0

So that's 60 kids who will have a right to Wilson in a few years in addition to those who got OOB seats in earlier grades.  Of course, some might live IB for Wilson and just be choosing other schools in the feeder pattern, and some will move into the area when their kids are in high school, but it's not nothing. [/quote]

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