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OK, PP.  What do you think would happen if 200 IB kids left Deal at the end of the year?  Would the principal make those spots available in the OOB lottery?[/quote]

Kind of an odd question, but I'll try. This year? No, the school is 300 kids over capacity right now. Once the addition is finished? Yes, he'd have to.

But what are you getting at?[/quote]

I'm just suggesting that the Deal principal is probably familiar with the research and would try hard to keep FARMs enrollment below 25% if at all possible. He would probably fight to minimize the number of OOB spots available if his IB enrollment dropped for some reason.

If all of the OOB kids at Deal come from the feeders, then perhaps the fact that Deal is only 21% FARMs reflects the collective efforts of the Deal feeder principals to control their OOB lottery slots.  Do the feeders pack their 4th and 5th grades to capacity with OOB kids?  Probably not.

School capacity does not determine enrollment.  Hardy has the capacity for 650, I think, but has only around 350 kids.  Why is that?  Could Hardy handle being 75% FARMs?

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You're giving everyone [i]way[/i] too much credit.  It's just happy accident the demographics work out for Deal.

The reality is the opposite of what you hypothesize. There is unrelenting pressure on Deal and its feeders to take more kids. Enrollment moves in one direction only, upward. There is a ratchet where facilities grow to meet enrollment, and then enrollment grows to match facilities. [/quote]

Maybe you're right, PP.  Perhaps it's just a coincidence.[/quote]

Of course she's right.  There is no room, no thought, no plan in the system whereby poor or OOB children are to be kept out of a school.  None.  Zero.  Zip.  Nada.  And when maybe half of them overall can read on grade level?  Nor should there be.

You need to get it into your heads that if you want to build a moat around your snowflake, then send him to private school.  DCPS absolutely will not keep those bad OOB kids away from him.  DCPSs job is educate everybody, and considering how badly they do that job, don't think for a second that DCPS is going to keep kids out of Hardy just for you.

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The PP is right.   It also takes a lot of resources to bring such a large number of kids up to grade level.  Of course, this means for higher SES families looking at middle schools WOTP that Hardy is unlikely within any reasonable time horizon to offer their kids the same educational quality as Deal.[/quote]

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