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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys aren't getting it. If you only remove Shepherd and Bancroft, you're still left with an overcrowded middle school. Janney continues to grow, as does Hearst and Lafayette. You have either remove one more school or don't remove any and open another middle school..[/quote]

I suggested that Shepherd and Bancroft should both be removed from the Deal feed. I actually don't think it should stop there. Remove those two and send them to the the middle schools closest to them - Shepherd to MacFarland, Bancroft to CHEC. Both can feed into Roosevelt.

I also think that Hearst should be added to the Hardy feeder. I get that people don't think that these are big numbers, and I agree. Janney and Murch are enormous and there's very little that can be done about that, short of no longer letting in any OOB kids.

During the boundary talks, I was strongly in favor of the at-risk set asides on the face of it. However, as time has passed, my opinion has evolved. You are not going to solve the segregation that this city faces by setting aside a small percentage of seats for a handful of at-risk kids at wealthy schools. Solving that problem requires a much larger commitment to mixed-income living, and I do not see that happening any time in the near future. As things stand, I would be perfectly satisfied with DC doing away with the OOB lottery all together, effective immediately. If you are already enrolled, you can stay, but there should be no sibling preference for OOB students.

To be clear, we are not in a school that feeds into Deal or Wilson. I don't like the optics of kicking out all the OOB students any more than anyone else does, but rationally, there is not enough space for everyone who is currently destined to go there and something should be done. I doubt that it WILL, because no one wants to be the one who suggests kicking out the OOB students (read: the brown ones who are poor), but it SHOULD.[/quote]

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