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What specifically do I need to know about the school that will either confirm or reject the hypothesis that removing the 100 worst OOB troublemakers (which will also do a little to alleviate overcrowding) will benefit the remaining students?  [/quote]

Your initial post says "the students with the worst disciplinary and attendance records." In the post quoted above, you say "troublemakers."  You assume with no evidence that kids who miss school are "troublemakers."  You assume with no evidence that kids with disciplinary issues are "troublemakers", but there are many, many kinds of disciplinary issues --- including kids cutting class to sit in the Atrium and talk, kids looking at their phones in class, etc.  In some discussions, not fulfilling community service hours falls under the umbrella of disciplinary issues.

You also assume that whatever potentially negligible benefit is achieved by expelling 100 kids (potentially for looking at their phones once too often)  outweighs the devastating impact of that kind of policy on the kids who are expelled.  I know I'm wasting my time by addressing such a clueless, impossible policy suggestion seriously, but I really hope that you will take a minute to think like an adult and consider how policy gets made and implemented and come up with a suggestion that might a) have a chance of actually getting implemented in the real world and b)actually make things better for the community as a whole.  It seems like you buy into this notion ---prevalent on DCUM among people who have never and would never actually set foot inside the school -- that there is a large population of poorly behaved black OOB students who somehow snuck into Wilson and spoil everything.  You disregard the fact that OOB students are following the rules set up by the officials who we elected to run the schools and that as such they have exactly as much right to attend the school as anybody else.  [/quote]

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