Any lucky stories to encourage those doing the lottery this year?
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FFS The entire lottery is predicated on the understanding that people can't afford to to live in good school districts. |
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| We got our IB for PK3 100+ WL numbers everywhere else, but we had a great year at the IB. For PK4 we got our #2 choice - great school, slightly annoying commute, still an awesome year. For K we lotteried again and got our #1, an awesome school around the corner from our house where we've been ever since. |
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Not PP, but why wouldn't it be a serious comment? That's the story for our family and a handful of families around us. We didn't get into any PK classes. Paid for two PK years at the JCC and now we are at Ross- two blocks away from our home. Why would anyone move for free PK if you can't see your family there for the long term? Choose a school you see your child growing- otherwise, is the 45 minute commute in a different quadrant really worth a free year of PK |
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This is such a typical comment from an entitled person. News for you. Some people who want to stay in the city can’t afford to buy in the neighborhoods with good schools. In fact, many, many more people can’t afford to than can. They can afford to buy in neighborhoods with not so great schools. Some get into good charters, and no one I know commutes 45 minutes to a charter. If they do that is an outlier. At our charter, many families live in the neighborhood while our commute is 16 minutes. Other families try to make their IB school work while others move to the burbs and have to deal with a longer commute. But to say just move to the neighborhoods with good schools in the city is someone who obviously is entitled and do not understand the majority. |
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why you should buy in a zone that you would be happy to send your kid to for K. We had a horrible time in the Prek3 and 4 lottery, but never were all that concerned because we had a good inbounds school. I am always surprised at the number of people who just hope for good luck in the lottery. Sure it would have been nice to have two years of free prek, but it didn't work that way for us. [/quote]
Is this a serious comment?[/quote] Not PP, but why wouldn't it be a serious comment? That's the story for our family and a handful of families around us. We didn't get into any PK classes. Paid for two PK years at the JCC and now we are at Ross- two blocks away from our home. Why would anyone move for free PK if you can't see your family there for the long term? Choose a school you see your child growing- otherwise, is the 45 minute commute in a different quadrant really worth a free year of PK[/quote] This is such a typical comment from an entitled person. News for you. Some people who want to stay in the city can’t afford to buy in the neighborhoods with good schools. In fact, many, many more people can’t afford to than can. They can afford to buy in neighborhoods with not so great schools. Some get into good charters, and no one I know commutes 45 minutes to a charter. If they do that is an outlier. At our charter, many families live in the neighborhood while our commute is 16 minutes. Other families try to make their IB school work while others move to the burbs and have to deal with a longer commute. But to say just move to the neighborhoods with good schools in the city is someone who obviously is entitled and do not understand the majority.[/quote] I am not an entitled elitist and I got her point. If you have access to and actively use this forum- I am sorry to break it to you, but you are not suffering homelessness and poverty. You made a choice to stay in the city; you made a choice to purchase a home in wherever. You actually have mobility. Sounds like you’d rather own a home in Fort Totten rather than rent a 1-2 bedroom apartment in Cleveland Park or Friendship Heights. You made a choice and comparing yourself so don’t even begin to compare yourself to poor people in this city. YOU are delusional. For the record- we chose to stay in our tiny rental for the school because we can’t afford a down payment for a house. |
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why you should buy in a zone that you would be happy to send your kid to for K. We had a horrible time in the Prek3 and 4 lottery, but never were all that concerned because we had a good inbounds school. I am always surprised at the number of people who just hope for good luck in the lottery. Sure it would have been nice to have two years of free prek, but it didn't work that way for us. [/quote]
Is this a serious comment?[/quote] Not PP, but why wouldn't it be a serious comment? That's the story for our family and a handful of families around us. We didn't get into any PK classes. Paid for two PK years at the JCC and now we are at Ross- two blocks away from our home. Why would anyone move for free PK if you can't see your family there for the long term? Choose a school you see your child growing- otherwise, is the 45 minute commute in a different quadrant really worth a free year of PK[/quote] This is such a typical comment from an entitled person. News for you. Some people who want to stay in the city can’t afford to buy in the neighborhoods with good schools. In fact, many, many more people can’t afford to than can. They can afford to buy in neighborhoods with not so great schools. Some get into good charters, and no one I know commutes 45 minutes to a charter. If they do that is an outlier. At our charter, many families live in the neighborhood while our commute is 16 minutes. Other families try to make their IB school work while others move to the burbs and have to deal with a longer commute. But to say just move to the neighborhoods with good schools in the city is someone who obviously is entitled and do not understand the majority.[/quote] I am not an entitled elitist and I got her point. If you have access to and actively use this forum- I am sorry to break it to you, but you are not suffering homelessness and poverty. You made a choice to stay in the city; you made a choice to purchase a home in wherever. You actually have mobility. Sounds like you’d rather own a home in Fort Totten rather than rent a 1-2 bedroom apartment in Cleveland Park or Friendship Heights. You made a choice and comparing yourself so don’t even begin to compare yourself to poor people in this city. YOU are delusional. For the record- we chose to stay in our tiny rental for the school because we can’t afford a down payment for a house. [/quote] I hate to break it to you but I’m not comparing myself to poor people. There are many families on here who make 100-200k with kids who can’t afford to move WOTP. Full stop. YOU are delusional to say you expect all these families to rent a tiny apartment to live like you. Who the hell do you think you are to tell all these families that they have to rent an apt in the city just so their kids can go to a good school. Or that they have to move somewhere far out to the suburbs when they can live in the city and have their kids go to a good charter and do fine. In fact, why don’t you do a little research and look at Hardy and DCI stats. You will see they are very similar. |
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To be clear- the entitled folks are the ones who buy IB for scrappy school & won’t move, despite poor lottery results because they ‘want to live in the city’.
Ok- then you go what you wanted & Your kids will suffer. Cities are for the rich. We are not rich, so we moved. |
Anonymous
No some people are tied to jobs in the city but don't want to miss their children's lives commuting in a car. It is about time with your family not "city life." |
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| Lucky story: I sussed out the lottery process and decided the smartest thing would be to aim realistically. So I had my heart set on Appletree CH, which I really liked, for PK, and then our IB for K, so we knew we'd have a solid option and could still opt to play the lottery for other schools down the line. And then we got into LAMB. |
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Things that have been lucky for our family with DC public schools, charters, lottery:
1. Had first kid in 2004 2. Didn’t get into first choice school in 2007, but got into 2nd choice. They were probably equally desirable at the time, but 2nd choice became amazing and all three kids went there through 4th. 3. Had to start younger kids (twins)at IB not super desirable school (it is now good); it was a good experience. Half way through year, they got into great school older kid went to. 4. Oldest child got into Latin in 6 years ago when about 50% of non-sibs got in, I don’t know what is generalizable from our experience - don’t be afraid to try IB school with iffy reputation (?). Don’t worry if you don’t get into your first choice school. |