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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Leaving Lafayette in its current feeder pattern and just moving Shepherd makes sense in that it would give Deal and Wells equal number of feeder schools, and not require Lafayette kids to cross the park. But I think it's politically infeasible to remove only Bancroft and Shepherd from the Deal/JR feeder patterns because those schools have the highest populations of Black and Hispanic students.

Two things that would make the boundary reassignments more palatable would be a commitment to working with DDOT and WMATA on the buses required to get kids where they need to go, and a promise to offer honors English and math...the 6th grade classes would be for kids who score 4s and 5s on the 5th grade PARCC, and 7th and 8th would be based on the previous year's performance and teacher recommendations.[/quote]

Kids have been crossing west across the park to attend Deal/JR for decades. Why can't Lafayette kids cross it east (apart from the unsaid reasons)?[/quote]

Because the homes inbound for Shepherd and inbound for Bancroft are closer to Wells than the homes inbound for Lafayette.  Remember: bussing emphatically did not work in the 1970s.  It's not going to work now (with free WMATA busses) no matter what the In This House We Believe yard signs say.  They'll move to MoCo, to safe Deal homes, or reconsider 2nd-tier private and parochial schools that don't appeal to them today or five years ago.  See, e.g., Bullis and SJC and WES.[/quote]

They can - they are racist/classists, etc. I couldn't get into the camp in Takoma and at had to commute to Chevy Chase DPR - it took me ten minutes during rush hour. [/quote]

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