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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many OOB students are at Murch currently?  If the school is more than 200 over capacity, it would be surprising (and illogical) if there were any at this point.[/quote]

This.  There are OOB students at Murch, which admittedly makes no sense with the severe overcrowding.[/quote]

Murch has city wide special ed classrooms. Housed in trailers of course but kids are bussed in from all over the city to attend these programs. And now I will get on my soapbox-- Murch does a fantastic job with these kids. They are integrated into the classes for specials and recess and other times during the day. There are kids who came in for the special ed program and are now in regular classrooms full time because their needs are being met in an inclusive classroom. We happily take our OOB families and they are an integral part of the Murch community. [/quote]

This is nuts.  Why would DCPS put and keep a city wide program in an already overcrowded school?  There are a number more centrally-located schools that have a large amount of overcapacity and unused space and where the kids wouldn't have to be housed in a trailer city.  It's incongruous to for people to whine about being 300 students over-enrolled yet claim they are "happy" to take all the OOB families.[/quote]

If I recall correctly, DCPS was sued by affluent NW DC parents of kids with learning disabilities for not offering the specialized programs they needed and was forced to pay their tuition for private school programs even though many of the parents probably would not have sent their kids to the public schools anyway. DCPS had to find space in upper NW campuses to offer additional special ed programs so the affluent parents could either enroll their kids or decline and pay their own private tuition instead. I remember this being considered at Eaton several years ago when DCPS was looking for west of the park capacity for a special ed school within a school. [/quote]

But it's not just Murch. Lafayette, Janney and others are all overcrowded (hence all the trailers they all had or have.) This is also why the 10% of spots going to disadvantage students- concept during the boundary revisions was confusing and potentially problematic.[/quote]

Potentially problematic?  Ya' think?[/quote]

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