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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just like shipping WOTP kids to a half-empty school EOTP is a non-starter, so is excluding Bancroft (majority Hispanic) and Shepherd (majority AA) from their historic feeder pattern.   One solution from another thread was to pull Ward 4 schools -- Lafayette and Shepherd -- into another middle school together as a compromise where families both east and west of the park feel the "pain" of a new feeder system.    A solution like that where no "side" wins is the only thing that's politically viable.  The people who bitch about EOTP hipsters or middle-class black families using YOUR schools are sadly bitter and obviously new to how DC works.[/quote]

Again we devolve into stupidity in these discussions.

[b]If you look at the history of the boundaries it is not in fact the full history that these schools have fed to Wilson & Deal.

In fact Wilson used to have boundaries that were essentially proportional to the neighborhood as were the rest of DC schools.  And if you aren't aware of this you should educate yourself and this point is to the white and black EOTP parents digging in about this but the EOTP Middle and High Schools used to actually be quite diverse - I can't find the article now but I don't think I'm imagining that Coolidge was majority white until the mid 1960's.[/b]

But either way we all lose if this doesn't get solved and the only way to solve it is to move significant numbers of students to a different MS & HS.  Unless you think it makes sense for our kids to attend a MS with 2000 kids and a HS with 3000 - and we are going to get there in 3-4 years if something is not done.

WOTP slots for kids from outside of the immediate neighborhood should be going to low income kids from poorly performing schools not to middle class kids who can easily be bundled into a new set of high performing schools EOTP.  And that will incidentally maintain WOTP diversity and increase it EOTP - I trust that you understand diversity can also be inclusive of white and middle class families and doesn't just mean a school with some number of minority students?[/quote]

You're right, PP, redlining and school segregation worked until the Civil Rights Movement!  Why did we mess up a good thing?   :roll: [/quote]

Do you have any actual knowledge of the history of segregation or red-lining in Washington DC?

And either way do you understand that the EOTP neighborhood serving public schools, especially at the MS and HS level have almost no whites?

So you profess to care about integration but are advocating for a system that has done anything but achieve that for a lot of students.

And I presume you realize that almost any surgical shrinkage of the Wilson/Deal boundaries instead of moving students in mass will make those schools less and not more diverse?

Let's be honest - you care about maintaining the status quo which is a tri-furcated school system with one group of students who are winners, another group of students that comes out so-so and a third group that comes out losers.  But you are among the winners and only care about that so spare me the crocodile tears about segregation because that is not your concern but you know it plays well with people not paying attention.[/quote]

Yes, actually.  Based on your posts I have a much fuller understanding than you do.  The rest of your post is just character assassination based on literally nothing.  Nothing you've said makes any sense and your assumptions about me and my motives are 100% wrong (I'm not in boundary for Deal), which is almost impressive.   Almost.[/quote]

OK so what are your motives and proposed solutions?  Or do you think everything is fine as is?

Or is it easier to toss out inflammatory terms like red-lining and segregation and implying elitism while ignoring the actual history and what is going on?[/quote]

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