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They should absolutely get rid of OOB feeder rights. There's no reason lottering into a school in K should give you an automatic path to that school's feeders till 12th.

I disagree. The bonds formed in cohorts and communities are valuable and it would be harmful to pull a child out of their cohort and community once established. If feeder rights were removed, there would be mass exodus from DCPS.[/quote]

and there is a faction of DCPS who would not mind that.  DCPS only cares about "equity" and "achievement gaps".  They do not care about creating and sustaining a school system that is used by the vast majority of the school age population of the District of Columbia like in Arlington, Fairfax or Montgomery County.  Their version of "let them eat cake" is "let them pay for private".  Close to 50% of the DCPS population is "at risk" while less than 25% of school age children in the District are.  That statistic means that there is extremely large number of families (and not all of them wealthy, or white) who do not believe that DCPS will do a good job educating their children.   The first priority in boundary/feeder patters should be to try to create another feeder pattern that is deemed rigorous enough by middle class families.  [b]The best way to do that would be to have all the Hill ES feed to one middle school, and to install a principal at Eastern who is dedicated to creating another JR in the eastern end of the city.[/b][/quote]

This.[/quote]

Where do you locate a single middle school that is big enough to serve all the Eastern feeders? What do you do with the other two middle school buildings? How do you keep this middle school (which would likely have far more students than Deal, with a lot more economic and racial diversity and range of academic skills) functioning? How do you avoid the problem Deal has of having too many students for certain sports teams and other extracurriculars?[/quote]

NP. I’ll bite. You put the middle school in the Eastern building. Feed Brent, Maury, JO, SWS, Ludlow, Watkins, etc. into one middle school and you would immediately have IB buy-in. Move Eastern to one of the middle school buildings.

The Hill has a huge number of high performing middle school students. They’re just mostly at charter schools. [/quote]

Totally agree that if politics, etc weren’t issues, Eastern is the obvious answer. [/quote]

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