Would you drive your kid miles from home to a school that is significantly lower performing...

[Anonymous]

than your neighborhood school?

This is what the school wide lottery will mean for many families. I don't think it is a realistic expectation but I could be wrong. I assume the DME realizes this and is OK with those families leaving DCPS. Lower performing schools will not get an influx of good students.

We wouldn't do that drive every day. Would anyone?

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No. I drive 3 miles for an outstanding charter school and it is extremely difficult and taxing.

If the school wasn't amazing, I wouldn't do it.

[Anonymous]

Of course I would. I drive 8 miles each way and that is to a private school.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Nor would I leave middles school and/or high school to chance.

10+ year DCPS family here (with 10 more years to go- 4 spread out kids). We would opt out of DCPS if those options become realities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course I would. I drive 8 miles each way and that is to a private school.

You would drive that much to a weak school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course I would. I drive 8 miles each way and that is to a private school.

I hope that private school is teaching our kids better reading comprehension skills than you seem to have mastered.

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Anonymous wrote:than your neighborhood school?

This is what the school wide lottery will mean for many families. I don't think it is a realistic expectation but I could be wrong. I assume the DME realizes this and is OK with those families leaving DCPS. Lower performing schools will not get an influx of good students.

We wouldn't do that drive every day. Would anyone?

Please try to tone down the exaggeration. Many families? Miles? My understanding of the proposals is the only possibility of this ever happening is with a citywide HS lottery and even in a worst case scenario you are not going to have any significant number of NW students being forced to travel to, say, Eastern.

This type of rhetoric is counterproductive. Better to emphasize the importance of certainty and the ability to attend the school closest to you.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course I would. I drive 8 miles each way and that is to a private school.

great. so you drive 8 miles each day to take your kids to a significantly lower performing school than the one in your neighborhood, and you also pay tuition. do you also smash your toes with a hammer every morning?

[Anonymous]

Um....some of us only have older kids. So if Policy C is chosen that actually could mean our HS kids would travel from NW to Eastern. C has city wide lottery for high school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:than your neighborhood school?

This is what the school wide lottery will mean for many families. I don't think it is a realistic expectation but I could be wrong. I assume the DME realizes this and is OK with those families leaving DCPS. Lower performing schools will not get an influx of good students.

We wouldn't do that drive every day. Would anyone?

Please try to tone down the exaggeration. Many families? Miles? My understanding of the proposals is the only possibility of this ever happening is with a citywide HS lottery and even in a worst case scenario you are not going to have any significant number of NW students being forced to travel to, say, Eastern.

This type of rhetoric is counterproductive. Better to emphasize the importance of certainty and the ability to attend the school closest to you.

+1 "Driving miles for worse schools " is hysteria bordering on Monty Python-level farce at this point. Very low probability of "city-wide" lotteries every happening, but the wailing and gnashing of teeth has drowned out any of the good ideas in the proposals.

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Anonymous wrote:Um....some of us only have older kids. So if Policy C is chosen that actually could mean our HS kids would travel from NW to Eastern. C has city wide lottery for high school.

And? My goodness, think then write. Yes, it "could" happen for "some" but that is much different then it will happen for many. It is obviously important to consider the former, but you shouldn't create strawmen.

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Are you new to DCPS?

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Or think, it may happen for many. Why is your could more reasonable? No one is creating a strawman or hysteria. At this point there is a 1 in 3 chance this will happen.

[Anonymous]

OK, maybe not many. Imagine if you are the only family on your street shut out of your neighborhood hs.

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Anonymous wrote:Or think, it may happen for many. Why is your could more reasonable? No one is creating a strawman or hysteria. At this point there is a 1 in 3 chance this will happen.

Reasoning, logic, that is why it is more reasonable. Remember, your argument is that many students will be forced to travel miles to HS.

What would it take for that to happen? First, you would need many students who would otherwise go to Wilson to lose the lottery. Second, you would need a sufficient number of winners to come from far away. In other words, you would need lots of kids from Eastern/Anacostia to win the lottery. Third, you would need the displaced Wilson students to also get shut out of all schools that were not miles from their homes. Then, and only then, would you get the result you are predicting.

Your theory is what?