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Exactly.  And the way to do this is to make sure that once people leave a coveted DCPS slot, they leave it.   If you want to leave Hardy to attend a charter school, that's fine.   But now you lose your feeder rights to Wilson.

This kills two birds with one stone.  One reason for Wilson overcrowding is that tons of parents leave spots open in 5th grades in WOTP elementary schools that are then filled by OOB students that then have feeder rights all the way to Wilson.  If those OOB kids go to Wilson, and the IB students return to Wilson after going to charter middle schools, you get overcrowding.

So this policy would encourage parents to stay in DCPS schools near their home, and help reduce Wilson overcrowding.[/quote]

This is the kind of upside-down thinking that got DCPS into the mess it is today. Why not just limit OOB slots to the number of available seats instead? Because somehow kids who won a slot in a lottery in pre-k are "more deserving" than kids who "abandoned" DCPS for charter schools? Please.

DCPS needs to make up its mind whether it's a neighborhood school system or not. If it's not going to be a neighborhood school system, it needs to figure out a way of assigning students.[/quote]

This messed up proposal would "prefer" OOB students who get into schools via the lottery over those IB parents who leave for a while because their local middle school option basically sucks.[/quote]

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