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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm firmly of the belief that the boundaries just need to be reset. Bowser will never do it. Doesn't have the guts. But it's just pulling off a bandaid. So the whiners send their kids to St. Albans. Those who are in these schools who aren't multigenerational poor will demand more from them and they will change quickly. Some people don't remember that Deal was this thing that people shunned not that long ago. And now it's got every program you can think of and is massively overfilled.

The right thing in my opinion is to make MacFarland the default MS for every student between Cardozo and Takoma west of Brookland, get rid of feeder rights to middle school, make Oyster-Adams' middle school another elementary and end dual language at Oyster, where no concentration of Spanish speakers live (yes, yes, World Bank blah blah blah, those people don't live inordinately near Oyster) add dual language at Brightwood and Dorothy Height, etc.

But it's NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. Good policy is subject to you all here, and DCUM says no, so Bowser obeys. The end.[/quote]

Agreed.

And Hardy was also shunned - just 5 years ago.

They need to rip the bandage off and start over.

There is still a political price to be paid for all of this tinkering around the edges too - people are pissed and political capital is being spent and they aren't even solving the problem.

But here is the real political problem - in order to wholesale re-do the boundaries you need to take on two very powerful lobbies in DC - the charter school lobby and the real estate lobby both of whom benefit enormously from the current clusterfu(k of DCPS boundaries.[/quote]

How do the boundaries impact the charter school lobby? Why should they care? [/quote]

Because a lot of their students are middle class white kids from gentrifying neighborhoods whose parents don't have the courage to actually have their kids attend school in their own neighborhood - if you the MS/HS problem in Ward 4 they lose a lot of their customers.[/quote]

Solving Ward 4 capacity issues won’t solve the issues for kids in those gentrifying communities. Are you suggesting that there will be enough seats in those Ward 4 schools to widen the boundaries for many more families? (Not being argumentative; just trying to understand)[/quote]

What Ward 4 capacity issues are you referring to?  Coolidge and Roosevelt are grossly under enrolled.  There is a chicken and egg issue in Ward 4 around MS capacity but that is easily solvable by increasing the capacity at Wells.[/quote]

I misread the previous poster's message and thought they were talking about solving capacity issues rather than program/perceived quality issues. I'm still not clear on why charters should care about changed Ward 4 boundaries. Is the idea that changing Ward 4 boundaries will give families access to more desirable DCPS schools and there'd be less demand for charters?

[i][quote] How do the boundaries impact the charter school lobby? Why should they care? [/quote]

[quote]Because a lot of their students are middle class white kids from gentrifying neighborhoods whose parents don't have the courage to actually have their kids attend school in their own neighborhood - if you the MS/HS problem in Ward 4 they lose a lot of their customers.[/quote][/i]
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