How does a 'safety" school turn into a highly regarded one?

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08/19/2016 16:23

Subject: Re:How does a 'safety" school turn into a highly regarded one?

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One of those reasons: JKLM (and Stoddert) parents squatting in EOTP schools until they get by-right entry to K. Let's just stop that.

Oh, you just stop that. You know full well that Ward 3 parents are a tiny fraction of the churn. The vast majority are EOTP parents who play the lottery again and again until they get into one of the few highly regarded schools, and if not, they move. Very few plan on staying at their IB school beyond PreK, unless it happens to be one of the few desirable ones.

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For one, we can afford to actually pay for one of our many excellent neighborhood nursery schools. I can't think of a single household in which the parents said, You know what? Let's drive from 39th and Fessenden over to Woodridge every day, twice a day, and then back to our jobs at Farragut North so we can save the $10K we'd spend on PS3.

It's quite a bit more than $10K/year to get the full-time preschool that public PK is, which makes it even more outrageous for the PP to suggest that the few families WOTP who may actually lottery for PK3 should be ineligible for doing so just because they have a guaranteed good option starting in K. Even so, you are right that they are so rare as to not have any impact on the "improvement" or lack thereof of EOTP schools, which is entirely driven by the lottery carousel in which most EOTP parents participate. The only WOTP family I have ever met who sent their kid to PK3 EOTP was at Appletree. I bet the actual data, if anyone has it, would support this anecdotal impression that it's a non-factor. It's a myth fueled by resentment against WOTP families.

We will gladly GTFO your pk3 programs over yonder, as soon as Ward 3 is granted the boon of One. SINGLE. DCPS pk3 class, or charter school (at any grade). You cannot, in the meantime, tell us to go back to Ward 3 when there is no there there. If we had these programs in our neighborhoods, we would not invade the ones in yours.

Um, Hyde-Addison? Even I know that and I'm an EOTP resident.

Yes, except that it's pointless to try to lottery into this school for Pk because they haven't been accepting anyone OOB in the past years. As another PP noted, WOTP is underserved when it comes to PK. As long as there is no means testing for access to these programs, this is unfair, and it is even more unfair to suggest that people should be excluded from playing the lottery (or shamed for doing so because classes will have "less cohesion" when they leave) based on where they live.

Or that the optimal solution involves retooling boundaries to encompass large chunks of Rock Creek Park, which, as another PP observed, would design into the system the kind of commuting chaos that charters currently layer on top of it.

You say you want PK3 - you can't have it all (good commutes, calcified school boundaries, AND PK3).

I don't even necessarily want PK3 at WOTP schools, I realize it's not going to happen given how crowded the schools are. I just don't want entitled EOTPers - many of whom likely have a higher HHI than we do - try to suggest that I shouldn't be eligible to play the lottery for it because I have a great IB school. You can't have it all (your affordable, rapidly appreciating house AND the citywide charters and OOB lottery to yourself).