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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do these threads always devolve into who gets a piece of Deal/Wilson?  [b]Where are the threads about improving schools in other wards so these kids (my kids) can have a good neighborhood school?[/b][/quote]

No one (read: UMC white people) willingly wants to be the first-mover to send THEIR kids to the new school. No one wants their kid to be the guinea pig.

We live in the Hyde-Addison catchment and are expecting our first kid. As I see it, there are two options to solve the soon-to-be crisis at Deal/Wilson: (1) create a new by-right high school for Hardy MS or (2) carve out at lease two elementary schools from Deal/Hardy in conjunction with stopping OOB feeder rights.

Personally, I think #1 is more politically feasible. People get angry and organized when you take something of value away from their kids (option #2). Plus, Option #1 allows more OOB spots to remain open for savvy and politically influential folks who live in Hillcrest and NE DC; Bowser won't abandon this constituency.[/quote]

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