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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Capitol Hill is actually the perfect example to demonstrate why such heavy emphasis on boundaries makes no sense at all. By starting this discussion based on the % of IB children, you completely disregard that in fact a great many children at all of the Capitol Hill schools live in Capitol Hill (subtract those that actually live in MD). The IB numbers at all of our schools we're all picking schools from around here that don't happen to be our IB schools, sometimes simply because the official boundaries are totally screwed up. Brent kids go to Watkins, Watkins kids go to Maury, Miner kids go to Ludlow-Taylor, J.O. Wilson Kids attend Brent, those in turn attend SWS and Logan Montessori, Tyler has kids from from all other Capitol Hill boundaries due to Spanish, likewise J.O. Wilson due to French, so on and so forth. I'd claim that if you drew one big boundary for what you think of "Capitol Hill Schools" and examined how many kids within all of these schools are from within that boundary, I'd guess you'd be at about 75% to 80%. Can someone run the data please to prove me wrong?
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This post seems way off base to me. While, yes, some of the OOB populations at Hill schools are other kids from Capitol Hill, my guess is that it is a relatively small proportion (20-30% tops?), and it's not willy nilly. There are a limited number of very specific vectors, e.g. Brent/Maury/Peabody waitlisted preschoolers going to Payne/Tyler/Ludlow-Taylor, Hill kids in the Tyler Spanish Immersion, and a few Brent and other 4th and 5th graders at Watkins so they can go to S-H. And there are likely older OOB students (2nd-5th grade) from the Hill at Brent/Maury/Peabody but given their IB crowding, that is likely the end of those vectors. SWS and Logan Montessori don't count because they are citywide.

And saying that a school that is 1.5 miles away is just as much of your "neighborhood" school as the school that is 2 blocks away is sooo... not true.

My guess is the poster is inbounds for a school they find undesirable and is hoping controlled choice will come to fruition so they have preference at another school. But the problem is that the schools may all sink to the lowest common denominator at that point.[/quote]

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