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I'm not sure all the proximity and other preferences are a matter of law. [b]Proximity families are legally entitled to a school of right[/b], and that is protected even if SWS is a citywide program. Are you suggesting that proximity families should sue? [/quote]

I don't understand how you are using this language.  Can you clarify? [/quote]

Sorry, all families are entitled to an in-bounds school, and that is your school of right. I'm not sure that the secondary preferences (sibling, proximity) are protected by law or if this just a DCPS policy. I'm sure someone is researching it.[/quote]

Whether or not the other preferences are protected by law is an interesting legal question.  However, there is a legal requirement that government entities, like DCPS, treat all residents equally under standard rules and regulations. Since DCPS has standard rules and regulations for how students are admitted to elementary schools, then a legal challenge based on violating these procedures would not be without legal merit (which is different from saying that the case would win, since legal outcomes are very dependent on the vagaries of the lawyers, judges, etc.).

I am certainly not saying that people who would get proximity preference to this school SHOULD sue.  It is wildly premature for considering such an action and, since the boundary and preference details have not been released yet, it may be moot if DCPS changes this on its own.  What I am saying is that this group of residents COULD sue and, if they did[b], they would have a pretty good legal leg to stand on[/b].

School boundary redrawing is the kind of thing that spins off multiple lawsuits in almost every jurisdiction in which it is undertaken.  That is an inevitability in the process and I would suspect that DC sees (conservatively) at least a dozen or so challenges as the process goes forward.  We will have to wait and see if this becomes one of those challenges. [/quote]

No, they wouldn't.  Not even close, I hardly know where to begin.  Let's start with your adamant assertion vis-a-vis boundaries:  [u]No[/u] [u]boundaries[/u] are being redrawn.  They were always inbounds for LT and they remain inbounds for LT.

DCPS has already established various kinds of city-wide schools, be they application/test-in HSs, or Oyster as a magnet (now for the Spanish dominant side), or Logan Montessori.  This is just one more different kind of city-wide program which actually expands the number of quality seats to students all over the city.  You're not going to find a sympathetic judge, but you could probably spin your wheels and waste some of your time and money for quite a while.[/quote]

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