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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people that are dreaming about a change in the OOB feeder system or even the individual school feeder systems are not living in reality.  By the time this fight comes up again, many on this board will be planning for college graduation.  Exhibit A:  Crestwood and 16th Street Heights will keep their Deal feeder right into the 2020s.  The politicians do not want to have this discussion again anytime soon.[/quote]
+1000 It's funny how people love to theorize about which school will be cut from Deal or how OOB policy is on the verge of ending as if that is anywhere close to reality. If anyone participated in the DME boundary and feed-rights process you'll know that these things will NOT happen anytime in the near future that would impact the people railing on this thread. As PP said, by the time anything significant changes, you're kids will be heading off to college. A few anonymous people sitting at their computers deciding that "x" school will get cut from Deal is nothing more than wishful thinking of parents who don't understand the history, the recent decisions or the political landscape. OOB policies were affirmed earlier and more strongly than just about anything during the DME process. The decision-makers made it clear very early on that OOB wasn't on the table to be touched in any significant way. In fact, they double downed by establishing the idea of set-asides for at-risk children. [/quote]

I fully agree with sentiments that changes will be very hard, but I do think it is possible (not certain) that some changes will happen before we are well into the 2020s.  The boundary process did build in review of overcrowded schools before then.  Schools like Janney and Murch will have to make some changes whether they like it or not.  That will certainly means things like larger class sizes and fewer PK4 classrooms, but probably also some tweaks to their boundaries though how will depend on enrollment shifts in the future (will Lafayette's enrollment really start to decline, for example).  I agree that OOB feeder rights are probably untouchable, but frankly for the Deal feeder won't be that relevant.  School like Shepherd, Hearst, and Bancroft are getting to be largely IB at early grades.  While politicians might not want to make changes, if (and it is an IF, because overcrowding might convince fewer feeder students to continue on) the current path of overcrowding continues at Deal and Wilson, politicians and community members cannot change the laws of physics.  Believe it or not, you can run out of space for trailers.  Murch is demonstrating that.[/quote]

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