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There are two types of lawsuits that I can imagine:

1) If DC govt decides to end all OOB feeder rights to the WOTP schools, in order to solve the crowding problem, the practical result might be de facto segregation. Deal/Wilson, and to a lesser extent Hardy, will be very white, while the schools EOTP will be very black. I could see some (black) EOTP parents trying for a civil rights/desegregation case. Request a desegregation order, demand that students be put on buses or demand to keep the OOB feeders etc.

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Look at the OOB percentage of Deal and Wilson, their racial makeups and their capacity. Ending OOB feeder rights would shrink Wilson by about 10% and Deal not at all. There would still be lots of OOB kids at both schools, they would just be different OOB kids than the ones who come in through feeders. You could argue they might be more diverse than the kids there today. Both schools are very diverse and would remain so even if feeder rights were eliminated. Reducing crowding is a compelling state interest and the impact would be negligible.[/quote]

This isn't true for Deal. If you remove all OOB from Deal (including feeder and lottery, although most of it is feeder lately because Deal doesn't even offer OOB lottery spots anymore), the school shrinks and whitens significantly.

You are right about Wilson - there is not as much of an overcrowding problem there. And at Hardy there currently is excess capacity.

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But nobody's talking about pushing [i]all[/i] of the OOB kids out of Deal. With the current construction Deal is at capacity but not overcrowded. They're not going to have seats sitting empty just to spite OOB kids, those seats are going to be filled and they're going to be filled with OOB kids. What's up in the air is how those OOB kids are going to get there, whether the only ticket in will continue to be through the feeder schools. There's a strong argument that eliminating the feeder right would actually make Deal more diverse.[/quote]

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