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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
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.
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Talking down to white families east of the park about black and brown people is a good way to make yourself irrelevant. We wouldn't have moved east of the park if we fit the stereotype you are suggesting. But, in your eagerness to race-bait, you missed the previous poster's point. You can't force people with choices to do things. Take Crestwood for example. Do you know how many students have been "forced" to attend the inbound elementaries in the 15 years that I've been there? As far as I know, zero. Neighbors have moved, they have entered charters, they have gone OOB to DCPS schools, they have found "creative" ways of establishing residency in-boundary elsewhere, but they have not attended Powell or West. So, no. Simply redistricting is not enough. Redistrict to a sub-standard middle or high school and the you will again see zero attendance.

Here is the kind of idea that might work. This is sort of like a proposal that Matt Frumin had. He proposed moving Duke Ellington to Roosevelt. If Ellington could share resources with matter-of-right high school -- including some combined classes -- and the matter-of-right school could have strong differentiated learning, it would provide a lot of attraction. Understandably, the Ellington folks oppose this idea. But, just for the sake of discussion, this is the sort of thing that might work.
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