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Yes, yes. Everyone agrees that some boundary changes were and are necessary.  Why do people keep talking about boundary changes and student assignment policies like they are the same thing?  THEY ARE NOT.  A large majority of the proposals for new student assignment policies would completely do away with the idea of BOUNDARIES.[/quote]

BOUNDARIES did not come down off the mountain with Moses, they are just a tool.  And in this public school landscape with nearly half of the students attending charter schools, it might be okay to ask if they even make sense in all cases.   If you plot where kids EOTP actually attend school, it would look like someone shot the boundary map with a load of buckshot.

Charters and OOB are the reality for the foreseeable future. So why should the schools be tied down to a nearly obsolete convention?

None of this precludes or excuses DCPS from making neighborhood schools that people actually want to send their children to.[/quote]

Get this straight. Nobody goes to a charter because they prefer to travel.  They go to a charter or an OOB school because the school that serves their BOUNDARY is unacceptable, poorly run, dangerous or a mess.  Charter schools pop up in jurisdictions where the regular schools suck for a reason.  The vast majority of families would ( and do looking at the USA as a whole ) to to the school they are assigned to by address if it served their kid weLl. Stop confusing this.  It is the same lame argument for closing all under enrolled schools. Well..... No one wants to go there. Yes. Because it is a terrible school. Fix it and we will go there.[/quote]

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