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I’m happy if they increase OOB seats West of the Park. The whole topic of OOB students is the modern day argument of integrating schools. Schools must integrate.[/quote]

I'd be happy if DCPS west of Rock Creek Park remains integrated, but I'm not from your neighborhoods, I'm from Ward 4. Where your OOB students are from. I want integration in my schools here. And by extension I want integration in the rest of DC. I want people with advantages to stop shunning the school system east of Rock Creek Park.

These challenges are linked. A boundary-based solution is always problematic, but if we are living with it, then why is the solution always build more capacity in Ward 2 and Ward 3 (plus Lafayette)? That's not what I want. That's not real integration.

I know you want less crowding and you prize having minorities in your schools, but please help us build citywide solutions. I know DCUM well enough to expect the people to say that if I want "UMC" children in these schools they need to ..... basically exclude most students who live East of Rock Creek Park, e.g., "Test In Options" "strands" or "Honors." You know you've seen all that.

I don't like you building new schools in Ward 2 and 3 when our budgets just got hammered and the capacity issues are due to system wide pressure.

[b]I'd go for your building project on the premise of DCPS mobility being only for At-Risk kids. The rest of us get neighborhood schools.[/b][/quote]
Your barbell is gross. Ward 3 IB kids and OOB at-risk kids would end up in an environment where white people are rich and walk to school and black people are poor and drive to school. The middle needs to be filled in.[/quote]
Gross? We ALREADY HAVE that wealth gap in DC. White income vs black income in DC? There is no middle class family here.

What I don't want is the upper class east of Rock Creek Park fleeing westward. I give up on White Ward 2 and 3 leaving its enclave. I'm done with the bullshit where everybody hyperconcentrates west of Rock Creek Park. WE KNOW WHAT THE RESULT IS. And you would balance that against "allowing white kids to know that nonpoor black people exist?" This is a thing? Your precious admixture of diversity among the kids from $3 million single-family homes, one kid? G-ROSS!!!

Allow it for those who meet the at risk categorization. That gets who "needs" it their needs met.

If you want something different, why not Kill Off the Boundaries Entirely? I'll take that today, but until then, I want mobility for at-risk only.
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[i]"What I don't want is the upper class east of Rock Creek Park fleeing westward."[/i]
Wow, what a creepy clueless thing to say.
You give up on controlling the rich families but you want to control the non-rich families that you hope are sufficiently non-rich to be controllable, and sufficiently non-poor to be shamed as rich and corralled into EOTP schools, every last one of them, let's not let a single non-rich non-poor white family do the abject and win a spot in the lottery and join the white hyper concentration WOTP!
Calling my kid a precious snowflake who brings nothing? F. U. right back. This is ridiculous. Yes, put aside at-risk slots, but excluding non-at-risk families entirely from OOB opportunities in ward 3 is unacceptable and is typical barbell policy.
Gross.
Besides, we've said it before. Carrot, not stick.[/quote]

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