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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.  The lack of quality middle school options is hurting DCPS.

Let me give you an example - my family.
We are in a top rated elementary school with a long long waitlist.  We like it and our son is having a great great experience.  We’re decently engaged with the PTO.  We’d stay in this school no problem.

BUT, the middle school feeder pattern is not good.  So every year we play the lottery and list Lafayette, Murch, Janney, Bancroft, Oyster, etc.  If we got into a school like Lafayette we’d probably enroll.  
Why?
Access to Deal.

The lack of middle school options is holding back DCPS’s elementary schools.[/quote]

[b]Then you should be lobbying to end OOB feeder rights. [/b] There are at least 30 OOB kids at our WOTP elementary school.  Half black and half white.  Almost all really good students with involved parents. This must be similar to other WOTP schools.  There are probably 400ish of these kids spread across the Ward 3 schools.  These kids could be the foundation of a great EOTP middle school.  It’s not a question anymore about being the first family to be forced to try it, it would be hundreds of families.  It’s really the only way out of this mess. [/quote]

As someone who owns a house in close-in Bethesda, I think this is a great idea.  Top notch.  [/quote]

But here’s the thing.  The vast majority of EOTP homeowners can’t afford to buy in close in suburbs like Bethesda.  And for lots of reasons they are not going to move to the far outer burbs.  So if DCPS were to end OOB, then most of the hipsters would have very little choice to stay and fix the IB schools. [/quote]

Doubt that.  They can always move to MD or VA or like us send their kids to private school for middle school.   Live in Ward 5 and we come from a DCI feeder but chose private.[/quote]

Nowhere near enough charter or private seats.  And most can’t drop $45k for private anyway.  Let’s try it and see what happens?[/quote]

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