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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The problem with your line of thinking is that [b]Deal is close to the western border of DC[/b]. Areas in Wards Four & One are not hemmed in.

Certainly there should be some catchment area balancing between Hardy and Deal, but unless one advocates for a third middle school west of the park, the catchment area for Deal must move westward, and that means fewer Wards Four & One students, and thus, a whiter school.

No, this problem is easily solved by[b] drawing Hardy's boundaries north x northwest to capture that far northwest corner. This frees up Deal to pick up more students from Wards 1 and 4.[/b] West of the park has all the MS it needs - at least until the formula is successfully replicated elsewhere. [/quote]

Hardy already captures the farthest NW corner of DC at this time.

What makes infinitely more sense is to give Deal's current southern territory over to Hardy, roughly south of Porter.  Eaton and Hearst and Oyster.   It's closer to Hardy than Deal, as a simple aerial glance at a map will tell you.

This is the sensical move that would be made by a rational, detached scientist visiting from another planet.  As has been discussed already, it's unlikely to actually happen because doing this runs the risk that, as a percentage of the pie chart, there would be fewer non-white, non-Hispanic children at Deal as a result.

Thus, we gerrymander.  
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