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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Crestwood, Shepherd Park and 16th Street Heights and Mount Pleasant (kids going to Bancroft) will get booted out of Deal/Wilson feeder patterns. It will help to bring higher SES kids to lower performing schools and create the sort of mix that helps to level the playing field for all of DC's kids. The more SES kids are in these "lower performing" schools, the more people with influence will feel obligated to step in and make sure resources are being provided to kids that have long done without. This is a win-win for people who truly care about the disserved in the greater DC community.[/quote]

But [b]what will be done to create a reason these families want to send their children to this new MS[/b]?  You cannot force people with choices to send their children to an "lower performing" school.  People with choices vote with their feet.

Also, how do you deal with the fallout that such changes will remove diversity from the highest performing non-application schools in DC, even if there are higher SES families mixed with the diversity? [/quote]

I don't think there has to be a reason. I think the redistricting will be the reason. There won't be a choice. Not everyone can afford to up and move, nor would many want to. I, for one, am happy and vested into my community. I'm also happy to make a contribution by giving my IBs school the "boost" that high SES brings. I think alot of people to talk the talk should walk the walk and put their money where there mouth is. You can't have threads and threads on here of people talking about leveling the playing field and giving disadvantaged kids a real shot and then run for the hills when Deal/Wilson in no longer a part of the discussion. Also, for the poster who talks about the situation with Crestwood, I think they aren't taking into consideration what will happen when more families move to Crestwood, when the number of kids shuffled over to Deal is actually a considerable number. Today there may only be a handful of kids. When the boomers start to get to middle school age, that number will actually be considerable. What an awesome opportunity for a large number of advantaged kids to be a part of growing a school community EofP. It has to happen some time and with all of the discussion of boundary changes, the time has come. Right now we should focus on reducing panic and fear- the root of a lot of the problem.[/quote]
Wow! I must have stuck a chord with you. The very idea that you have to send your child to a school with black and brown people got you in a tizzy, didn't it. I think you're in a fantasy if you think that people in large numbers can up and move. Many can, many can't. The many that can't will be going EofP and guess what- making a school better. Horrible thought, I know.

If you want to pretend "people with choices" don't actually have choices you can live in your fantasy world, but do not pretend you are answering the question I asked.

If my choice is between sending my children to a low performing middle school or move, I will move.  You cannot stop me and I am not alone.  That was my plan when I moved to my house in a JKLM that is IB for Deal.  In the interim, Deal has become a viable option and that changed our mind.  So, what is going to happen to make this a school I want to my child to attend, and helping out the greater good does not fly as a reason. [/quote][/quote]

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