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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools. [/quote]

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white. [/quote]

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?[/quote]

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur. [/quote]

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.[/quote]

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP[/quote]

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black 
Lafayette: 8% Black 
Hearst: 17% Black 
Deal: 26% Black 
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White 
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Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school.  Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids?   Because I don’t think we are. [/quote]

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.[/quote]

There is no way to fix that.  Houses are 1 million plus.  The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few.  Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.  [/quote]

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur. [/quote]

As an OOB family at one of those schools, I think it will be difficult to fill at-risk elementary slots. It’s a colossal pain in the ass to schlep your kid across the park every day. Lafayette especially is in the middle of nowhere and poorly served with public transit. Not dissing your idea, but sadly it takes privilege on top of lottery luck to attend these schools OOB. [/quote]

I know plenty of W7 and W8 kids commuting to attend Shepherd, Deal, JR, and DCI. Why would they not also commute to Lafayette or Janney given the opportunity. There is a way to have equitable access for these schools. Yes, they should not be enrolling over capacity but 100% of the lottery spots should be at risk. Not even 10-15% but 100% of them.[/quote]

And if you are going to shut out MC kids in Wards 7,8,4, etc. from the lottery, you need to make MC students in some of the wealthier schools (Lafayette, Shepherd, Murch, and now Bancroft, etc.) share the resources that flow with them by integrating schools EOTP. You can draw lines dictated by property values and say the kids on military road a certain section of 16th Street get the golden ticket, and the other section of 16th street or the kids on Piney Branch can never get access to "Wilson for All" because their houses are not worth as much. [/quote]

Has nothing to do with property values. All schools should have a set aside for at risk student. The ones that are closer to 100% capacity AND have a very low threshold of At-risk should be 100% at risk for any OOB spots until they reach X threshold. It's not that hard.

Lafayette is 2% at risk. They should not be able to accept a student from the lottery that is not designated at-risk until they are 10% or 15% at-risk. This should be for every DCPS neighborhood school at all levels.

Other than that, go to your IB school or one of the many city wide charters if you want school choice. Nobody says there is access to Lafayette for all. [/quote]

Has everything to do with property values - some of the kids zoned for Lafayette (and Shepherd) could very easily commute to Brightwood or Whittier or Takoma - but because they are wealthy, entitled, and mostly white, they won't commute. Witness the stink about ECE for Lafayette parents. Mayor could have given Military Road school to Brightwood to relieve overcrowding - nope - she offered it to Chevy Chase and they said we would rather die than cross the park. #Facts. [/quote]

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