Anonymous wrote:

To address the Deal issue, you would have to make the OOB elementary students attend their neighborhood Middle Schools. Maybe this could be an option to resolve the overcrowding.

In my opinion, of all the boneheaded things Michelle Rhee did, the worst was instituting the policy that once you're in OOB, you have the right to stay in the schools your school feeds through high school. Coupled with sibling preference, this means that once you're in OOB your whole family is in for a generation. In one stroke of the pen she created a powerful constituency against change.

I can't see how you can attack redistricting with the current OOB numbers. Let's say Deal is redistricted. What are you going to do with the 35% of Deal students who are OOB? If they get to stay, how is that going to play with the families who were IB but are now OOB?

The reason redistricting will never go anywhere is that the schools are so unequal. The OOB numbers are the tangible proof. With such inequality, people have too much to lose. The whole OOB system destroys a constituency for improving the worse-off schools, and in its place creates a constituency for opposing change of any kind. This is not a new problem, but the way Rhee dealt with it was to accommodate it rather than address it, and by accommodating it she institutionalized it. What a mess.

Anonymous wrote:

The domino effect would come into play, if you move one boundary line it would shift dynamic all the way to Ballou. That is why there has been no attempt to do so.

So you think that boundaries won't be redrawn at all? That this proposal by Cheh is an empty gesture? The overcrowding at Deal is a problem that is just going to get worse. There is definitely motivation to address the issue now.

To address the Deal issue, you would have to make the OOB elementary students attend their neighborhood Middle Schools. Maybe this could be an option to resolve the overcrowding.

Go to the hearing and express you opinion. Don't just talk on DCUM.

The word diverse is a meaningful as the word republican.

It makes more sense to re-draw the boundaries to catch more Upper NW students at Hardy and keep the EotP students at Deal. It would make both schools more diverse.

The domino effect would come into play, if you move one boundary line it would shift dynamic all the way to Ballou. That is why there has been no attempt to do so.

So you think that boundaries won't be redrawn at all? That this proposal by Cheh is an empty gesture? The overcrowding at Deal is a problem that is just going to get worse. There is definitely motivation to address the issue now.

The domino effect would come into play, if you move one boundary line it would shift dynamic all the way to Ballou. That is why there has been no attempt to do so.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If any boundaries are going to be redrawn, the east of the park schools are screwed. Lafayette will be fine.

I'm not sure if they will be able to exclude schools east of the park b/c then there would a significant lack of diversity and I think DC residents would fight back.

ITA! It looks racist to exclude EotP kids at Deal. EotP is diverse not so much over here.

Anonymous wrote:If any boundaries are going to be redrawn, the east of the park schools are screwed. Lafayette will be fine.

I'm not sure if they will be able to exclude schools east of the park b/c then there would a significant lack of diversity and I think DC residents would fight back.

If any boundaries are going to be redrawn, the east of the park schools are screwed. Lafayette will be fine.

OP you just read this on the Chevy Chase listserv, and it was pointed out by a follow-up post on that listserv that the woman who first asserted this was talking out of her butt.

Nothing has even been proposed, much less decided. No one has sketched a map, etc.

Quit trying to stir up shit.

Attendance boundaries for schools have nothing to do with Ward boundaries.

what are the new school lines you are talking about? can you please explain? thanks

Seems like if this happened, it would not be for a long time. However, I am not an expert on the matter.

Could this really happen? Would kids in Ward 4 then not have the option of going to deal?