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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since you aren't interested in being "PC", let's talk in the kind of pragmatic language you appreciate.

If you want Brent to have the money for specials  such as art, music, science and those advanced course "G&T-ish" classes, etc., you'd best encourage OOB kids to fill up Brent's underpopulated grades and welcome them, rather than cut them out.  Furthermore, every OOB kid that attends Brent for 5th grade is one less kid taking a spot at a school with a better middle school feed.  
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I'm IB for Ludlow-Taylor with very young children, considering relocating to the Brent District.  This argument sounds v. much like the dead-ended "the more the merrier" one used by some LT parents, teachers, and the administrators to avoid cracking down on wide-scale PG County address cheating.  And it's the argument often used to keep Stuart-Hobson close to capacity by importing Ward 7 and 8 kids.

What happens is that OOB (and out-of-DC)) poor kids end up crowding out high-SES IB kids.  Parents of the latter group are generally unwilling to keep their kids in predominantly low-SES grades.  Yes, DCPS forks over money per capita, but low-SES kids are challenging to serve en masse in various ways.  They pull down DC-CAS scores, scaring away new high-SES families, their parents tend not to get involved at a school and can't contribute to PTA coffers for funds for "specials."  Most problematically, they draw educator attention away from high-performing kids, particularly in the spring, before the DC-CAS is given.

Fine to have some around to provide a dose of real life for affluent kids, and to help as many as you can, but they're a headache when they pack a grade.

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