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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are going to have to create another by-right HS WoTP, right?

To me, it's only a matter of time.[/quote]

Or change the feeder pattern and route some students to another by-right high school.[/quote]

Or stop letting kids who got into an elementary or middle school OOB continue on through the feeder pattern. If you get a lottery spot at Hearst, you're there through 5th grade and that's the only guarantee you get. Deal figures out how many extra spaces it has and does a lottery for them (DCPS could give a preference for OOB kids at feeder schools though personally I'd rather they didn't). Same with high school.

There are fewer than 1000 IB kids at Wilson now. The school is not out of room by any means. Having some of the OOB kids attending their IB high schools (which should get more funding for things like honors and AP classes even if the classes are tiny at first, extracurriculars, guidance counselors, etc.) would be better for those schools and better for traffic and better for the district as a whole.  [/quote]

The way OOB feeder rights work is destabilizing to public education in the rest of the city. [/quote]

Thank you, Michelle Rhee.
Just want to remind everyone that before her, OOB worked just as the first pp here wisely suggests. OOB families at Deal feeders had to lottery after 5th and Melissa Kim, then the principal at Deal, would see how many open spots she had, not sure about moving onto Wilson-in those days it wasn't overcrowded, so it probaly was a non issue. Numbers were stable in those days. Rhee shot it all to hell. Let's go back. It's only been 8 years. Not a lifetime. 
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And the reason Rhee put the policy in is that one year it suddenly got hard to get into Deal. People started complaining, and Rhee panicked and created OOB feeder rights to appease the complainers, without thinking about the consequences. Not her finest hour. [/quote]

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