Anonymous wrote:Miles-wise, the elementary schools that should go to different middle schools or yes, K-8 schools, are:

Shepard
Bancroft
Eaton
Oyster

Francis Steven with School Without Walls MS (or whatever they call it) might be in play for Oyster, possibly other Cardozo feeders?

Eliminating feeders will never happen here - possibly for high school but for all schools.

Anonymous wrote:
Therefore, we as a city are about to embark on some tortuous, contrived way to shave down the number of bodies in Deal (Wilson) while skipping right past the common sense and simple answer of drawing a perfect circle around Deal and saying students within the circle may attend.

Well put. But any whiff of common sense? Bite your tongue. You get the sense the DC pols may be the only people in the world who look to the gerrymandering process common in state government as a wise solution. Only the DC pols would only support absurd school district lines to provide a veneer of inclusiveness.

the real solution is to eliminate feeders altogether. You OOB lottery into a good school? Good for you! Lottery again for MS, and again for HS. You could even provide priority enrollment for some feeders but behind IB and OOB sibs in an appropriately sized neighborhood boundary. Make the specialized K-8 programs more attractive to those seeking stability rather than taking neighborhood seats via feeders.

If DCPS is concerned about lottery fatigue, just ask the charter community how they've managed to thrive despite dealing with an equally burdensome process.

For what it's worth, I believe Bancroft is closer to Hardy than to Deal. (Not that I've heard anyone suggest it be moved into the Hardy boundary.)

Miles-wise, the elementary schools that should go to different middle schools or yes, K-8 schools, are:

Shepard
Bancroft
Eaton
Oyster

The only one of those that's even a close call, distance-wise, is Eaton. Eaton and Mann are equidistant from Deal when using a motor vehicle.

Of course, there can never be a middle school in the District of Columbia that is allowed to get any whiter on the pie chart, due to an action taken by elected or appointed officials.

It's OK, politically speaking, for an elementary to be all white with 6% Asian adopted children (Mann). It's OK, politically speaking, for large-majority white elementary to get statistically even whiter due to inboundary increases precluding OOB transfers (Janney, Murch).

But an elected official or an appointed body cannot slice out any schools from Deal that would have the direct and immediate effect of reducing the number of students who are brown or black. (Shepard, Bancroft, Oyster, Eaton). That official might as well just go touch the third rail at Farragut North.

Therefore, we as a city are about to embark on some tortuous, contrived way to shave down the number of bodies in Deal (Wilson) while skipping right past the common sense and simple answer of drawing a perfect circle around Deal and saying students within the circle may attend.

Does anyone else think this is part of Cheh's plan to get another middle school in Ward 3?

http://www.currentnewspapers.com/archiveweek.php?n=1&year=2013 The Feb 6th edition has the article.

When boundaries are redrawn do current students move or are they "grandfathered"?

Anonymous wrote:I didn't read it as such. But I think Janney should move to Hardy.

That's not going to happen. You can practically see Deal from Janney.

I didn't read it as such. But I think Janney should move to Hardy.

They don't put their new edition online until some days after it comes out.

Which edition? I can't find it online.

Which edition? I can't find it online.

Within the last 10 years, the boundaries for Janney were adjusted. Somehow people who were zoned for Hearst made the case to change the line and put them IB for Janney.

There is no reason why this can not be undone.

The Northwest Current article on school boundaries (especially the comments by Mary Cheh) sure makes it seem that Janney's boundaries will be redrawn. As an in-bound parent of a three-year old, I'm curious what people think the likelihood of this is and how that could possibly be done.