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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could do that today.  Eaton and Hearst in Ward 3 still have very large OOB enrollments.  DCPS could say, “No - stop! We are not going to lose these schools, not going to let them flip to IB.  They will never become like Janney. They must remain jewels accessible on the basis of equality and inclusion to the entire community  of DC!”[/quote]

Same with Maury and Van Ness in capitol hill which are going to be all white and high SES within the next 5-10 years most likely[/quote]

Van Ness won't be in Maury's league until they can raise $50K every year to send every 5th grader to a week of Space Camp in Huntsville, AL.  Sorry, but a condo on the Wharf just isn't a historic home on the Hill.  [/quote]

The Wharf isn't even IB for VN so you obviously don't know what you're talking about.

But neither does the disgusting yay VN will be all rich and white in 5 years poster. There are two large public housing developments in SW that feed into VN and aren't going anywhere, plus the mixed-income housing that was part of the Capper redevelopment in Navy Yard where public housing residents still live (Capitol Quarter, the Bixby, etc, with other buildings still under construction or being planned). The neighborhood is richer and whiter than it was 10 years ago but it's--thankfully--going to remain at least somewhat diverse and affordable for the foreseeable future.[/quote]

Van Ness is the model school.  Enough richer (and yes whiters) kids for it to be bearable for folks, racial and ses diversity, and not overwhelming poverty or at-risk folks.  The problem is the demographics of DCPS are 70% FARMS and 40% at-risk.  No upper middle class parent wants that for their kid black, white, Hispanic, Asian none.  And since DC is segregated so much by class and race.  The schools that aren't in the wealthiest areas have even higher percentages of FARMS and at-risk kids.  So the best you can hope for is.  Neighborhood schools in wealthy areas (check), and magnets in other areas (what should be happening).      [/quote]

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