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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That diversity lawsuit card is a BS red herring, in my view. It's based on the lawsuits from the 1960s and 1970s which dealt with actual disparate treatment among students and schools. None of it said Shepherd Park is required to be zoned forever to Deal Middle. That's just an item one SP poster likes to trot out to threaten a civil rights lawsuit if SP is ever re-zoned away from Deal. It's part of SP's impressive ability to wield political muscle to gain it benefits over other neighborhoods. [/quote]

If you look at it all of NW has been exercising its political muscle over SW, SE, and NE for the longest. You all are the same. [/quote]

SP is part of NW. Not sure what you're talking about. [/quote]

I am grouping SP into the category with the other schools that happen to be in Ward 3. [b]There is a sense of entitlement amongst the parents.[/b] [/quote]

Hear hear!

People who feel entitled to send their kids to someone else's neighborhood are, well, entitled.

What if instead they fixed their own neighborhood schools?

In a city like DC, which has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the complete rebuilding/ renovation of a good number of failing schools, that should be the obvious starting point for accusatory whiners like previous PP.[/quote]

Deal is only in one neighborhood. More than one school in other neighborhoods feed to it. So are you suggesting Hearst, Lafayette, Shepherd, and Bancroft me removed from Deal? You can't have one middle school for every neighborhood.[/quote]

I'm suggesting that physical proximity from one's residence is the paramount criteria to decide in our neighborhood-based system. Let the chips fall where they may -- much better than the constant politicking and fighting around.[/quote]

Amen. How about one MS per Ward?[/quote]

From my perspective the Ward borders are irrelevant to this -- it's about the physical proximity to the school.[/quote]

True, it should be a radius around the school. [/quote]
You guys aren't getting it. If you only remove Shepherd and Bancroft, you're still left with an overcrowded middle school. Janney continues to grow, as does Hearst and Lafayette. You have either remove one more school or don't remove any and open another middle school. [/quote]

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