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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I still haven't seen anyone make a coherent argument that these admittedly radical and unrealistic approaches wouldn't work, just that they wouldn't work for High SES WOTP.[/quote]

You will need to set aside time to read the hundreds of pages of commentary and analysis that accompanied the last DCPS boundary review process.  It really can't be summarized in a few sentences.

But again, do you know even the wikipedia version of how mandatory bussing played out in cities during the 1970s?   Short answer: Motivated parents with an array of choices don't stick around so their kids can be assigned to school across town.

These motivated middle class parents in the District were white AND black.   They lived WOTP in Tenleytown AND EOTP in Brookland.   They moved out of DCPS and into Falls Church AND Mitchellville.

If you want the 2000s version of how such utopian engineering works, study San Francisco and to a lesser degree, Seattle.  The latter no-boundaries paradigm was effectively gutted, following a lawsuit win by pissed off parents.[/quote]

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