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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The committee hasn’t discussed things at that level of detail yet, so nobody knows the answer. At the last meeting the consultants said they would devise various scenarios and then the committee would discuss in September. So that will be where some of these details become on the table.

But I’d say any requests for another MS to feed JR or MacArthur will run into a fundamental question of what is the citywide vision. It’s not possible for everyone who wants to feed to those schools to do it - or Deal & Hardy. “Alice Deal for All” does not literally mean Deal and its HS are so large that all DCPS students go there.

So if some more people got rights to WOTP schools then what does that mean for the next group of people one neighborhood farther east? The ideal scenario is that eventually othet HS become comparable in reputation (some educators argue they are already as good in actual education, though that’s tough to really evaluate rigorously). Is there a path to achieve that?

Moving the next set of parents to have rights across the park doesn’t lead to a gradual chain of future actions that eventually leads to a stable education system - the only stable end point in that direction is “Deal for All Literally” which is impossible.

So, what is the action the committee can take this year which puts the system on a trajectory to continue a positive direction, from the viewpoint of all parents in all wards, that then continues the next time boundaries change and the next time and so on?[/quote]

Plus, what about those of us who don't want Alice Deal? Deal isn't a perfect school. Some of us want an immersion MS, some want an MS with a strong STEM focus, some want an MS with a strong arts focus -- there needs to multiple excellent MS that aren't the Deal model.[/quote]

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