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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OOB kids isn't the problem people. That's 70 kids at most, of the more than 300 that make up the over capacity.

Let's move on.[/quote]

So why are 70 OOB students there?  This is too important a point to just "move on."  Murch didn't suddenly become overcrowded.  It's been overcrowded for a long time and had trailers in the front yard for years.  It's one thing to allow OOB kids already there to cycle through and move on.  Of course, they should not have continued sibling preference once a school reaches overcrowded status, but even sibling preference doesn't explain 70 kids because they likely would have gone through by now also.  7[b]0 may not seem like a huge number, until one realizes that it's nearly three classrooms of kids, and 25% of the overcrowding problem[/b].  Why does Murch keep taking them??[/quote]

There are many earlier threads explaining the system and why your math is wrong. But in a nutshell, they aren't all in three classrooms or one grade, they are spread out at <2-3 per classroom such that if you had zero OOB students today, you would not eliminate a singe physical classroom or teacher or change the footprint of the school at all. [/quote]

It's 70 extra kids in a school that is bursting at the seams.  Name one logical reason why any OOB students, let alone an entire city-wide program, should be at a school that has been seriously overcrowded for years, especially when there are more centrally-located DCPS facilities that have substantial under-utilized space.  [/quote]

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