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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know what the solution is but as a Lafayette family, I can tell you zoning out a bunch of rich white kids to try to integrate a school is just short sighted. The road to improvement is a one-way street. Families strive to do better with the resources they have. Trying to get a huge cohort of UNW families to accept a worse school, when they have the resources not to accept that choice is extremely strange. Particularly when most of the families live less than a mile away from a crescent ring of excellent public schools that stretch from Arlington over to North Bethesda. Or alternatively, of course, private. Right now a seat at Lafayette is worth about, what $600k? We have $600k. Do you? [/quote]

Of course you think it is short sighted, you’re rich and white. Is it hot and difficult to breathe under your white hood? Turn down the white power music and think about what you are typing. You’re an ass.[/quote]

NP here.  I'll try to restate the above in neutral terms.  If the DC gov't (whatever shape that may take: mayor, committee, Council, court order) directs hundreds of Lafayette families to a middle school that is (1) totally unproven/new or (2) is quantifiably "worse" (w/r/t PARCC scores, specials offered, ECs offered) …. many 20015 families will move to MoCo, move west of Connecticut Ave still IB for Deal, attend Blessed Sacrament or apply to independent schools at a higher rate.

I am not an "ass" for pointing this out.  This is, in fact, what occurred between 1980 and 2008.[/quote]

And if that happened, DC and DCPS wouldn't care. They would stop getting yelled at by people who are concerned about Deal and Wilson crowding. They'll still collect property taxes and income taxes from whoever lives IB for Lafayette and Shepherd. They'll get higher enrollment and test scores at Wells and Coolidge if even 10% of Shepherd and Lafayette kids go. And they'll get to say they've increased equity in the school system. [/quote]

Exactly. DCPS would be just fine with this outcome and might in fact prefer it. WOTP parents can’t seem to understand that. [/quote]

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