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[quote=Anonymous]That's only happening in a few areas, and in most of them NYC has also built new schools to accommodate the overflow, or has the planning to do so built into future development (DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights). Case in point, PS 312 in Park Slope--rezoned, and the overflow sent to a new school with 312's AP as their principal. New York schools are also dealing with volumes and class sizes you can't even imagine. And charters co-located within them. And, I'm pretty sure, less spending per pupil. And a LOT less real estate to expand into. Especially in Manhattan. But if you want to cry about a few Manhattanites who are now forced to walk their kids seven blocks to school instead of two, go right ahead. There are also some very crowded schools in Queens. Additionally, when the neighborhood school can't fit kids (only a real issue in K, in most places), they'd be bussed to the next school--not left to the whims of their parents in a car like here. As you said, the geography and transit options are different. That doesn't mean better.

The point is, even with New York's overcrowding, they have a very functional system compared to DC.

What you are proposing to do is to take one of the few things about DC's system that almost makes sense and replace it with more bureaucracy. You may only know people at Powell who lotteried in from OOB, but that might be because you do not actually know the people who live near Powell now and are being priced out of their communities. I get the impression it wouldn't bother you if they all left, but personally, one great thing about our NY school was how my kids were in the same class with kids for four years. Kids whose parents came from all walks of life. If you make all the renters have to lottery in, you're losing something important.

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