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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found the presentations / meeting notes from the working group interesting.

1 consideration was to make Hardy a 5-8 school.   What does this do for Wilson overcrowding?

Didn't DCPS just move all elementary schools to a PreK-5th grade model so that everyone had transition at the same time?   [/quote]

Making Hardy a 5-8 school would reduce number of OOB students in the pathway. It alleviates crowding at Deal[/quote]

By forcing parents who do not want their 5th grader with 8th graders to go private?     How does Hardy having a 5-8 program alleviate crowding at Deal?    [/quote]

They would adjust the boundary.[/quote]

None of this dialogue makes enough sense to me. How would making Hardy 5-8 reduce the number of OOB students in the pathway? What does it have to do with boundaries? What school's boundaries, anyway? Would adding fifth grade to Hardy be paired with removing fifth grade from its five feeder elementary schools? Or from some but not others? Would those elementary schools then "replace" fifth grade with ....lottery PK3?? Or change their PK4 from lottery to by-right??  [/quote]

The idea is that if you make Hardy more appealing to IB families you reduce the number of people who can attend Wilson by-right. Because when IB families go elsewhere for MS, they still have the right to attend Wilson. At the same time [b]kids who go OOB to Hardy also have the right to attend Wilson.[/b] If those OOB kids can be replaced with IB kids the total number drops.

What it shows is how politically difficult it would be to prune back OOB feeder rights, because that would be a much simpler way of doing the same thing.[/quote]

Wouldn't it be simpler to just change the bolded?  [/quote]

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