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[quote]Who cares about the answers to these questions. One poster made a demonstrably false statement, claiming that DME Smith "all but said" that Hardy would not feed Wilson. In fact, she said exactly the opposite.

Who cares if the person who pointed out the [b]falsehood[/b] is IB or OB?

If the person is IB, are you more or less likely to believe the original lie that DME Smith said Hardy won't feed Wilson? [/quote]

Calling something a falsehood doesn't make it so.  Read proposal B from DME Smith.  It states in black and white that if Wilson is overcapacity, then DME/DCPS will consider option of sending Hardy students to an unspecified new high school rather than Wilson.  It's pretty easy to see how Wilson gets to overcapacity, if it isn't already:  existing feeder schools at capacity and a baby boom ongoing in places like AU Park, then add the OOB mandatory set asides, maintain OOB feeder rights, etc.

[b]If Smith said she didn't mean any of that statement in her proposal and disavows it, then I stand corrected.  But it doesn't seem that she has.[/b]
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I was at the Hardy PTO meeting. I spoke with her personally. The option to consider an unspecified new high school had to be put in there because of the current over crowding at Wilson. ALL options and plans are on the table. But that doesn't mean all have equal feasibility. There is no new high school being built. Ellington is in process of being renovated as a speciality high school. So this option B isn't feasible. 
Hardy will continue to feed to Wilson. Period.[/quote]

Lemme see if I follow.  Smith recommended in her report an "option" that if Wilson is overcrowded, Hardy would be taken out as a Wilson feeder and feed to a TBD "new high school."

As Bill Clinton might say, it depends on what the meaning of the word "new" is.  Some see it as a newly constructed high school , perhaps west of the Park.  Others say any brand new high school construction is unlikely, especially west of the park, whether because no site other than Ellington is suitable or because of the usual politics of resentment in DC.   A more sinister reading is that any TBD high school that is different than the current Wilson status quo is still a "new high school" to Hardy.

Bowser, who remains the favorite to be the next mayor, says (in a uniquely unequivocal statement for her) that there will be no changes to Wilson boundaries east of the Park, especially in Ward 4.  In-bounds enrollment in the current Wilson cluster elementary schools continue to climb and some are already overcrowded, so Wilson likely will be crowded into the future.

As long as all options and plans remain on the table, under these facts and assumptions, we can't conclude at all that Hardy will continue to feed to Wilson.  If Abigail Smith recants and repents and says the "new high school" for Hardy option was a horrible mistake and is off the table, maybe we can relax.  But she hasn't done that and is unlikely to do so.[/quote]

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