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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Article on the closing of Roosevelt, with discussion of MacFarland and the surrounding neighborhood -- http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/45392/rough-ride-roosevelt-high-school/

Only 7% of the public school children from MacFarland's boundary were actually attending MacFarland.

[quote]Finally, some families simply cheat by listing a relative’s address or even renting a basement apartment in boundary for Deal and Wilson, says Jeff Steele, who founded and runs DC Urban Moms and Dads, the leading online discussion forum for local school issues. “Drawing school boundaries isn’t just like drawing voting boundaries,” says Steele, whose lives not far from Roosevelt but whose children attend Deal and a charter school. “If they told me to vote somewhere else, I would. If they told us, ‘Go to Roosevelt,’ we just wouldn’t go.”
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In the words of one person from the article, how can we shift from an attitude of "If you don’t like it, leave," back to an attitude of "If you don’t like it, how can you make it better?"?  Or have most people just decided it's DCPS's responsibility to make things better, and we'll just abandon DCPS until after the schools somehow transform without us?[/quote]

That article was published over two years ago. In case anyone is wondering, we were reassigned to Roosevelt and don't have plans for our kids to attend (one is already at Wilson and the other in the Wilson feeder path). I don't think anyone in the neighborhood will be attending for the foreseeable future. MacFarland may fare somewhat better, but that remains to be seen.

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That'd probably be true even if the neighborhood wasn't grandfathered into the Wilson feeder pattern for the foreseeable future.[/quote]

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