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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is very simple and they don't want to do it because it would make the school system way more segregated than it already is, there would be so much blowback politically.  This should be obvious to you.[/quote]

But there are set aside seats for at-risk students and Bancroft and Shepherd are diverse enough to not give off a segregation feel.  [/quote]

You're missing the point: it's that the other Ward 3 Deal feeders ARE segregated and Shepherd and Bancroft DO provide diversity to Deal and Wilson. Sorry, but the DC Council isn't going to support your desire to continue your child going to MS and HS with mostly white kids like they did for elementary. Sometimes I think posters like this just really don't get how bad they look to the rest of the city. [/quote]

Nice try at changing the subject.

Everyone in Ward 3 wants the Ward 3 public schools to be diverse.

But it isn't a choice between diversity and being right sized - Deal and Wilson are overcrowded but not actually serving very many low income kids who would actually benefit from the access.

Again this is not a fight between Ward 3 parents and parents of low income kids from Wards 7 & 8 for space in a pair of very over capacity schools - this is a fight between UMC families who can walk to Deal and Wilson and UMC families from Ward 4 who think they have an inalienable right to cross the park every day and then scream at Ward 3 parents for being racists when they themselves refuse to attend diverse schools in their own neighborhoods - hopefully all of you on here whining about your right to Deal and Wilson realize that you come across as a bunch of hypocrites.[/quote]

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