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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
One reason might be the further you travel from Deal the less white the population.  If Deal’s catchment area needs to be shrunk, it seems logical that it becomes less white.  It doesn’t have to be intentional exclusion of anyone, just the way it works out. [/quote]

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[quote=Anonymous]Restricting a school to an immediate neighborhood boundary to stabilize its enrollment numbers can have the effect of limiting the diversity at a school without rascist intentions.  [/quote]

There are parts of Ward 4 and Ward 1 within the current Deal boundaries that are closer to the school itself than parts of Ward 3 that are within the current boundaries. Palisades -- one area that potentially would like to be added to the Deal boundaries is further from the school than almost any part of the current in-boundary neighborhoods. So, if you were redrawing the school zone on the basis of geographic closeness, most of the current East-of-the-Park areas would remain.

When modifying school boundaries, there are lots of variables that can effect decisions. If the only variables that matter to you are ones that end up eliminating minority enrollment, then I would suggest that your choice of variables is racist.

Here is a map of the middle school districts in case you are not familiar with them:

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Boundary%20Maps%20-%202009/DCPS-Attendance-Zones-Middle-Schools-September-2009.pdf
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Admittedly, I didn't know the immediate neighborhood or its racial makeup when I responded to your over-generalized assertion that a change in school boundaries that results in less diversity is automatically racist.

If you had instead asserted that drawing diverse populations out despite their being in the.immediate neighborhood is overtly racist, I would probably agree .[/quote]

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