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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any additional housing in Ward 3 will be bought by upper-middle class white people who will do anything to get their kids into Murch or Eaton or Wilson.

Increasing density is so *completely* pointless. [/quote]

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Eaton, really?  Why would you pay top dollar to go to a school with a large OOB population.  Kinda defeats the point.  [/quote]

I think that the point is that if you put 10K more people in Ward 3 (low estimates) or up to 30K more people, then the existing schools will simply not be enough. There will need to be new schools build to handle the increased K-12 demand/load. Right now the new Comp Plan does not address schools. Not sure if this is a deliberate oversite or just acknowledgement that the solution will cost money and school build sites would be competing with the far more profitable multi family housing build sites.[/quote]

DC will just have to shift school boundaries south and east.  It’s not rocket science.  And a lot of new residents in smart growth mixed use new housing won’t have children of school age.[/quote]

Everybody says this, however the statistics do not bear it out.

The new multi family housing will be occupied with the same percentage of families with kids as today if not more as the numbers are increasing. There is no statistic to indicate that an unusual percentage of single people or couples without and not having kids are going to suddenly populate DC.

Increase the number of families with kids and you need to increase the school capacity.[/quote]

From a standpoint of racial and social equity, fairness and inclusion, the best, most efficient way forward is a total District-wide school lottery system, perhaps with a sibling preference.[/quote]

You know what else would be awesome? If the government bought everyone a Porsche. Sadly, that has about the same likelihood of a total lottery system. [/quote]

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