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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Making SWS a neighborhood school is not the answer.  There are too many elementary schools on the Hill.  That's the issue.  The reason you see such large numbers of OOB is because (as in the case of L-T) the school has space for them.  With fewer schools, the nucleus of IB families would grow and sustain itself.  As of now the IB nucleus at a school like L-T just can't get up to the tipping point.[/quote]

To play devil's advocate - Why not make L-T a city-wide school? It basically is already since it has so many OOB students.  Although given the discussion earlier, it seems like any city-wide school option without proximity preference might be a violation of the law. [/quote]

How would DCPS gain by making LT city-wide?  All schools that aren't full with IB students already are effectively city-wide anyway, [b]without DCPS having to create any new categories, regulations[/b], etc.  There's absolutely no benefit to this proposal.[/quote]

I agree.  That's why I said I was playing devil's advocate.  There is no reason to make any school city-wide because the seats at underenrolled schools are filled city-wide through the OOB process anyway.   This is true for seats at L-T and it is true for seats at SWS.  Why be against proximity preference at SWS when we have a system for filling seats at schools already that can be applied equally to all schools? Why is it a better outcome to have students from other neighborhoods filling seats at SWS than at L-T? Why should DCPS create "new categories, regulations, etc" to fill seats at SWS, to use your language? [/quote]

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