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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who send their children to charter school for middle school should lose their IB rights to Wilson.  Those IB rights should go preferentially to students that attend Wilson feeder schools - Deal and Hardy.

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Why?  If they live in the IB district, they should have the right to go, whether they are returning from charters, privates or the moon.  [b]DCPS should be doing everything it can to encourage students to attend schools closer to where they live.[/b]  DCPS especially should be encouraging walking and biking to school.  If we want a more green, environmentally sustainable city, that' should be a priority, rather than the helter-skelter commuting (much of it by car) that characterizes DC education today.[/quote]

Exactly.  And the way to do this is to make sure that once people leave a coveted DCPS slot, they leave it.   If you want to leave Hardy to attend a charter school, that's fine.   But now you lose your feeder rights to Wilson.

This kills two birds with one stone.  One reason for Wilson overcrowding is that tons of parents leave spots open in 5th grades in WOTP elementary schools that are then filled by OOB students that then have feeder rights all the way to Wilson.  If those OOB kids go to Wilson, and the IB students return to Wilson after going to charter middle schools, you get overcrowding.

So this policy would encourage parents to stay in DCPS schools near their home, and help reduce Wilson overcrowding.[/quote]

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