PK3 Lottery: SWS vs Peabody/Watkins

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Anonymous wrote:We were at Peabody for three years and had a positive experience. We then did a year at Watkins and happily switched to SWS, which we absolutely love.

For us the choice was clear. But schools change so quickly, that my experience could be dated, especially for someone entering Pk3.

I would do SWS over Watkins. Everyone I know at Watkins is unhappy by Grade 3 or 4. Everyone loves Peabody though. (FWIW, I am a huge proponent of going to your IB, I really think there are all sorts of unconsidered advantages... For Brent, Maury or L-T, based on the folks I know, I'd go IB. I just know too many unhappy Watkins families; again, all in the upper grades... I have never heard a bad word about Peabody.)

So you're a "huge proponent of going to your IB" only if it's rich and majority white?

What? L-T has the same demographics as Watkins, basically. If anything it’s a bit less white and less rich. So this is a stupid comment.

It's a more recent change that familiea are staying at LT. Look at the lower grade demograhics - definitely richer and whiter.

Just like Peabody... My point was that accusing PP of racism/classism for saying they’d stay at L-T but not Watkins is dumb. Obviously there’s something else driving that distinction.

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L-T is a great school community, in a great location, in a manageable size with good admin and teachers. It actually should be richer/whiter than Maury (just based on IB housing stock) and I think 3 years from now it will be Maury-esque. The T1 designation is gone (and it looks unlikely that they will even get the transitional designation, so jumping from 40%+ to less than 35% in one year) and this year’s 3rd grade is the first testing grade has a substantial UMC population... when test scores/stats come out, everyone will suddenly wake up to what the demographics of the school are doing.