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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feel free to start advocating for some schools to be pulled out of the Wilson boundary. If Lafayette and Shepherd fed Wells and Coolidge, the EOTP PARCC scores would go up significantly and both feeder patterns would be closer to capacity. Even if 2/3 of the people IB for Lafayette and Shepherd moved or went private or went to selective high schools (they won't) it would still free up space at Wilson and create more diversity and higher test scores at Wells and Coolidge.[/quote]

Shepherd gives 30 students a year. How does this help overcrowding??? Bus Janney or Murch [/quote]

Pulling 90 students out of Deal and 120 out of Wilson obviously helps overcrowding. When redistricting it makes sense to reduce travel times and distances as much as possible; sending Shepherd to Wilson and Janney to Coolidge would not help with that. [/quote]

I think everyone must suffer and worry about housing value and school performance, all HS should be lottery. It is the only fair and equitable solution. For all who chime in about white flight, it doesn’t matter. [/quote]

Such a plan was a complete and utter failure in San Francisco and they are killing it off:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/SF-school-board-plans-to-replace-failing-school-13461014.php[/quote]

DP. That was all schools, not HS only. It makes sense to have a ranking system. Especially with the new college HS options.[/quote]

This is a stupid idea. Lottery makes no sense when there is one viable HS in DC. No parents are willing to mess with HS education. The stakes are too high. There is also no bus system in DC. You cannot force a student from AU Park to go to Anacostia HS without providing transportation when there is a HS 5min walk from where the student lives. [/quote]

It would get sorted out. Likely an AU Park student would not go to Anacostia. They could go to Roosevelt, Coolidge or Wilson. [b]I’m not sure why AU parents are so quick to inflict pain on others [/b]when you are so unwilling to shoulder pain yourself?! There are many students at Wilson who shoulder the burden of a commute and you get to should the pain of a crowded school. It’s a shared burden! Stop whining. [/quote]

This is absurd.  First, a key reason that Wilson is an okay school is because of the neighborhood students who attend.  You can spread Wilson students equally across schools all over DC, and you will end up with 0 0 performing schools.  So then we have the equity of universally sucky schools.

Second, why is everyone simply supposed to agree to share pain just because DCPS is bad at their mission?  Maybe they should work to improve the schools?
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You’re conflicting your statements. Roosevelt isn’t a bad school because of the teachers, staff, and facilities, they just have fewer high HHI students. Your AU park high HHI student will do just as well at Roosevelt as they would at Wilson. There are many studies that show ideal low income rates (including benefits for high income students) to be 30-50%. Thus, since Wilson is turning to be an all high income school, it’s best for everyone (including AU kids and Petworth kids) to have choice sets for high school.[/quote]

I don’t agree with this at all. The parent community in AU Park actively tries to keep Wilson admin accountable to some extent. Roosevelt is not comparable because DCPS is a dysfunctional mess and DCPS folk don’t do there job properly. The teacher hiring process is a joke. Ask any teacher about DCPS HR and they will tell you a few choice words. There are many unqualified teachers in the system including some at Wilson. Most AP classes in DCPS schools don’t even cover AP material which is why AP scores are horrendous across DC. Yet, DCPS likes to brag about how many AP classes they offer at every school. Wilson is an ok school primarily because it has a small base of engaged and informed parents. Take that away and Wilson will be no better than Eastern or Roosevelt or Coolidge [/quote]

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