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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The idea is a clever one that should be looked into.

Sure folks are not going to like it if it turns into something,but hey DCPS doesn't really care what most families want.[/quote]

Untrue.  DCPS cares what middle class/affluent families want, just like most organizations care.  If DCPS didn't care:  1.  The Wilson/Deal boundary would be MUCH smaller; 2.  Oyster-Adams would have lost the Wilson feed (as first proposed during the last boundary review); 3.  Murch, Janney, Lafayette, and other WotP schools would not have received pricey renovations and expansions; etc.  [/quote]

Actually that is a good few points there.  Although I agree that it makes sense for the Oyster Adams middle to feed to McFarland, Oyster Adams is in Dupont Circle and McFarland is closer to the Middle school location, even if it not closer to everyones house:).  I just don't see how DCPS would have the balls to do it - given how much the Mayor needs happy upper north west people to like her.

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Oyster Elementary is in Woodley, Adams Middle School is in Adams Morgan (that's where the Adams in AdMo comes from).  Neither is in Dupont Circle.  They are both walkable neighborhood schools for us, which makes  sense because they are our local in boundary schools. MacFarland is not walkable or local. [/quote]

Wilson isn't walkable. There's that.[/quote]

Wilson is walkable—it’s just a very long walk (about 2.5 miles).

Even better, Wilson is a very short 3 stops on the Red Line from the Woodley Park Metro station.

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The Adams middle school feeding to Rosevelt makes sense as a valve to overcrowding at Wilson. Rosevelt is closer to the middle school location.  Although not closer for ALL the people who use the middle school.  And don't those people have enough capital to just move to in Wilson bounds anyway?  Or go private.  I don't know, but I always assumed most people in Cleveland park and Kalorama have money and can vote with their feet. [/quote]

Oyster's primary/main campus is located in Woodley Park.  Yes, most people who own single family homes in WP can probably afford to move anywhere they want in DC.  However, I assume they chose Woodley Park for a good reason.  The vast majority, if not all, of the Woodley Park homeowners will not send their children to MacFarland or Roosevelt.  They will "vote with their feet" by going private or using some other option.  As stated earlier up thread, this would pretty much defeat the purpose of eliminating Oyster as a Wilson feeder because only OOB/lower performing/less affluent Oyster students will have to go to MacFarland and Roosevelt.  What's the point then?[/quote]

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