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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi,

My name is Brian Doyle, and I am the Co-Chair of the Ward 3 - Wilson Feeder Education Network (or W3EdNet).  I have been involved in the group since it started.  W3EdNet has *never* advocated for the removal of any school from the Wilson feeder pattern.  Anyone who says otherwise is misinformed (or worse).  I am not saying that no one in Ward 3 (or anywhere else in the city) hasn't advocated for those positions -- obviously several anonymous people on this thread are -- but no one from W3EdNet ever has.

While I have your attention, parents and staff from every school in the Wilson feeder pattern, and DCPS and DME staff just finished working on a Community Working Group on Overcrowding in Wilson Feeder Schools that for the past roughly 18 months has sought solutions to overcrowding.  DCPS just issued its report yesterday.

Hopefully it will be up on their website on Monday: https://dcpsplanning.wordpress.com/category/wilson-feeder-pattern/ .

Until then it is posted on the W3EdNet website along with our response letter: https://www.w3ednet.com/advocacy:
Report: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1H-DR6yCFkXcynseHcWQTu6R0JGeNcHpM
Response Letter:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WmiwqnRQ_xFgjxTWQfIHHP6qe4RNQ34e

(And removing schools from the feeder pattern or discontinuing OOB feeder rights was explicitly off of the table for discussion.)

Thanks,

Brian
W3EdNet[/quote]

Thank you for your hard work.  But the uncomfortable truth is that any “report” that does not at least include a discussion of ending OOB feeder rights is not worth the paper it is written on.  Between Hardy and Deal there are over 750 OOB students.  A good portion of these OOB kids are white kids with privilege who could be transforming their neighborhood schools in tremendous ways.  Wilson could be right sized tomorrow morning with the stroke of a pen. At no cost to the tax DC taxpayers, most of which do not even have children.  But instead DCPS has sent you on a fools erand to find other ways which will take years to implement (if at all) and will do nothing but further exacerbate  Wilson overcrowding. It appears you did not disappoint them. [/quote]

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