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[quote=Anonymous][quote]But it is ok for others to get kicked out of Deal? You sound like the Lafayette mom and dad I have met who rant about “the Blacks” from Shepherd attending Deal. Do you also fight the city on street lights?[/quote]

I sound like nothing of the sort.  I'm stating facts, namely, what ACTUALLY HAPPENED circa 1980-2008 when Alice Deal Junior High was not as heavily attended by households IB for Lafayette.   You ready for this?  Hang onto your drink:  [i]many of those 20015 households that took a pass on Deal c. 1980-2008 would self-identify as African-American![/i] I know, right?!  Telling the truth without editorial comment =/= racism.

It is not irrational to postulate that if households are re-directed from 2020-23 Alice Deal to a different middle school that performs relatively worse on [b]quantifiable metrics[/b], it's quite possible that those households will again take a pass on their assigned middle school.   What's past is prologue and all that.

What has changed since 1980-2008:  MCPS aren't a clearly superior product to DCPS any longer.  Tuition for the usual suspect independent schools has increased so rapidly that it's now out of reach for most 2-earner families with multiple kids.  They're not — and cannot — add seats, so admission pressure will not be relieved.  Schools like St. John's are more difficult to gain admission.  And of course, DC charters are an option that didn't exist for middle schools in 1980-2008 in a meaningful way.[/quote]

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