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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ward 3 parent here who thinks it's a terrible idea to make OOB families go back to their feeder schools. If a child gets in to a school for ES- like a JKLM- they should go on to Deal with their friends. Sending them back to their neighborhood school for MS or HS is not right. My kids went to ES pre- Rhee before the OOB preference was given and it caused havoc for OOB students - many who were close friends with my children. 
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You do realize that Deal feeders are the only schools in the city that have that luxury, right? Less than a quarter of kids in the city attend an in-boundary school, and Deal, Wilson and their feeders make up a big chunk of them. Everywhere else in the city the norm is that kids start leaving for charters, privates and the suburbs starts as a trickle in second and third grade and becomes a gusher by fifth grade. It's very rare in DC for kids to go to sixth grade with the classmates they went to elementary school. That's true even in the parts of Ward 3 that don't feed Deal.

So forgive me if I'm not compelled by your argument.[/quote]

The reason kids peel off in other parts of the city is because they do not have good MS or HS non charter options. I don't see why OOB students in ES should not be allowed to attend Deal if that is the feeder the ES goes to. I don't view that as a luxury. I don't get your argument.[/quote]

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