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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Nobody is "keeping" the EOTP high schools empty. Every one of them accepts every student who applies, any kid in the whole city is welcome to attend them. Students have lots of options "closer to where they live." The problem is not many families want to attend them. More kids who are in-boundary for Cardozo attend Wilson than Cardozo for example.

What DCPS [can't] do is force people to go to schools they don't want to go to. It's not politically feasible, and it ends up not working.[b] DCPS has got to create schools that people want to go to, which means studying what makes schools popular. If part of the answer is location, then schools need to be put in locations that are attractive to people.[/b][/quote]

Part of the answer is indeed location.  It's safe to say all parents prefer a school that's close to where they live.

So doesn't it make more sense to figure out what makes schools attractive and put those elements into schools that already exist - closer to the population that needs them - than create yet another school in proximity to the desirable high school that everyone wants?[/quote]

Of course it makes sense -- if DCPS supported the concept of neighborhood schools -- which it does not.[/quote]

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