Lottery Swami checking for lottery 18-19

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in ward 3. Since there are no inbound schools for prek 3, I figure I'd have a better shot at Charter schools.
How do you rank:
Creative Minds International
AppleTree PCS- Columbia Heights
E.L. Haynes
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom
Washington Yu Ying
Breakthrough Montessori
Meridian Public Charter School

Is there any point in applying to DCPS (see below) out of bounds?
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Powell Elementary School
Ross Elementary School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens


If your goal is to pull your kid for PK4 or K and send to your IB, I would not go with the bilingual schools. You get all the hardship of a miserable commute and what is often a tough adjustment to the new language without any ultimate benefit of fluency.

Also, I'll say this - if you're the Ward 3 family that's trying to use my Ward 1 and 4 schools to park your kids through to K and aren't interested in the school community, find somewhere else. Too much work already trying to build community without families who are intentionally transient.

You’ll get into Appletree and you won’t piss people off by parking your kid there for only 1-2 years.

I'm sorry. All DC residents have equal rights to enter the lottery and put down choices that reflect their family situation. That means that Ward 3 families can lottery in for PK3 (and increasingly PK4 since those are being crowded out of overpacked schools) and then bail. You might not like it, but that is life. Ward 3 folks would love to have PK3 and to have enough PK4 slots. And no we are not all rich enough that sending our children to private school for 2 more years is a trivial choice.

+1. And people outside of Ward 3 have the right to apply for OOB slots at Wilson feeder schools and stay.

It goes both ways folks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in ward 3. Since there are no inbound schools for prek 3, I figure I'd have a better shot at Charter schools.
How do you rank:
Creative Minds International
AppleTree PCS- Columbia Heights
E.L. Haynes
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom
Washington Yu Ying
Breakthrough Montessori
Meridian Public Charter School

Is there any point in applying to DCPS (see below) out of bounds?
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Powell Elementary School
Ross Elementary School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens


If your goal is to pull your kid for PK4 or K and send to your IB, I would not go with the bilingual schools. You get all the hardship of a miserable commute and what is often a tough adjustment to the new language without any ultimate benefit of fluency.

Also, I'll say this - if you're the Ward 3 family that's trying to use my Ward 1 and 4 schools to park your kids through to K and aren't interested in the school community, find somewhere else. Too much work already trying to build community without families who are intentionally transient.

You’ll get into Appletree and you won’t piss people off by parking your kid there for only 1-2 years.

I'm sorry. All DC residents have equal rights to enter the lottery and put down choices that reflect their family situation. That means that Ward 3 families can lottery in for PK3 (and increasingly PK4 since those are being crowded out of overpacked schools) and then bail. You might not like it, but that is life. Ward 3 folks would love to have PK3 and to have enough PK4 slots. And no we are not all rich enough that sending our children to private school for 2 more years is a trivial choice.

+1. And people outside of Ward 3 have the right to apply for OOB slots at Wilson feeder schools and stay.

It goes both ways folks.

I am PP and I fully agree!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PK3 (in Anacostia and not thrilled with our IB choice even though it is getting better)

Two Rivers at Young
SWS
Stokes- East
Van Ness
Stokes
Tyler

I get that you aren't thrilled with your IB, but please make sure you are up for the commute to these schools. I am at one of them (we live close, thankfully, but we ranked our preferences based on proximity) and get really annoyed at the parents who complain about the commute.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Swami, here is my list for Pk3:

Mundo
Stokes (both)
Yu Ying
Inspired Teaching
Two Rivers (both)
Creative Minds
Lee
Shining Stars
Seaton
Langley (IB)

Swami says you need to spend less time thinking about what is a HRCS and what exactly you are looking for in a school.

I'm looking for a school within a manageable drive of either our home or our office, ideally a DCI feeder but failing that, something with a middle school that is close-ish to where we live. Stokes east of the river would be doable for us because of work location.

Cap City? Haynes? I can't think of where you could live or work that is ok for CMI and YY and ITS and Seaton but would be too far for those schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK3 (in Anacostia and not thrilled with our IB choice even though it is getting better)

Two Rivers at Young
SWS
Stokes- East
Van Ness
Stokes
Tyler

Tyler Spanish or English? Don’t do English. Commenting from experience.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm not super excited about Tyler but it is close and I've heard it is on an upswing? Welcome your general thoughts about the school.

My daughter was in prek there two years ago and the behavior in classrooms is terrible. The administration doesn’t care about the younger kids behavior so there was zero support. We lasted one year and we were out. Physical behaviors, spitting, swearing in 3 year olds? You name it. And it wasn’t just one or two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in ward 3. Since there are no inbound schools for prek 3, I figure I'd have a better shot at Charter schools.
How do you rank:
Creative Minds International
AppleTree PCS- Columbia Heights
E.L. Haynes
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom
Washington Yu Ying
Breakthrough Montessori
Meridian Public Charter School

Is there any point in applying to DCPS (see below) out of bounds?
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Powell Elementary School
Ross Elementary School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens


If your goal is to pull your kid for PK4 or K and send to your IB, I would not go with the bilingual schools. You get all the hardship of a miserable commute and what is often a tough adjustment to the new language without any ultimate benefit of fluency.

Also, I'll say this - if you're the Ward 3 family that's trying to use my Ward 1 and 4 schools to park your kids through to K and aren't interested in the school community, find somewhere else. Too much work already trying to build community without families who are intentionally transient.

You’ll get into Appletree and you won’t piss people off by parking your kid there for only 1-2 years.

I'm sorry. All DC residents have equal rights to enter the lottery and put down choices that reflect their family situation. That means that Ward 3 families can lottery in for PK3 (and increasingly PK4 since those are being crowded out of overpacked schools) and then bail. You might not like it, but that is life. Ward 3 folks would love to have PK3 and to have enough PK4 slots. And no we are not all rich enough that sending our children to private school for 2 more years is a trivial choice.

+1. And people outside of Ward 3 have the right to apply for OOB slots at Wilson feeder schools and stay.

It goes both ways folks.

I am PP and I fully agree!!

Dude, you moved into Upper Upper for the privileges, and then want what I get because most of my neighbors are poor. Awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PK3 (in Anacostia and not thrilled with our IB choice even though it is getting better)

Two Rivers at Young
SWS
Stokes- East
Van Ness
Stokes
Tyler

How about Eagle Academy? The Capitol Riverfront one is closing soon, so not a great long-term choice, but it could buy you a couple years. Same with Appletrees. And the Congress Heights Eagle campus is really beautiful. Can't speak to what it's like to attend the school but I like the building.

[Anonymous]

1st and 3rd grade for Bancroft and Oyster; no preferences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in ward 3. Since there are no inbound schools for prek 3, I figure I'd have a better shot at Charter schools.
How do you rank:
Creative Minds International
AppleTree PCS- Columbia Heights
E.L. Haynes
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom
Washington Yu Ying
Breakthrough Montessori
Meridian Public Charter School

Is there any point in applying to DCPS (see below) out of bounds?
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Powell Elementary School
Ross Elementary School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens


If your goal is to pull your kid for PK4 or K and send to your IB, I would not go with the bilingual schools. You get all the hardship of a miserable commute and what is often a tough adjustment to the new language without any ultimate benefit of fluency.

Also, I'll say this - if you're the Ward 3 family that's trying to use my Ward 1 and 4 schools to park your kids through to K and aren't interested in the school community, find somewhere else. Too much work already trying to build community without families who are intentionally transient.

You’ll get into Appletree and you won’t piss people off by parking your kid there for only 1-2 years.

I'm sorry. All DC residents have equal rights to enter the lottery and put down choices that reflect their family situation. That means that Ward 3 families can lottery in for PK3 (and increasingly PK4 since those are being crowded out of overpacked schools) and then bail. You might not like it, but that is life. Ward 3 folks would love to have PK3 and to have enough PK4 slots. And no we are not all rich enough that sending our children to private school for 2 more years is a trivial choice.

Sure. You have the right to do it. But you can’t deny that you *will* piss some people off if you lottery into, say, Stokes or Yu Ying knowing you’re pulling your kid at K. My kids are at a non-language charter and I actually don’t mind some churn, but the I think it’s a little touchy at the language schools. Those commutes would also likely suck BTW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in ward 3. Since there are no inbound schools for prek 3, I figure I'd have a better shot at Charter schools.
How do you rank:
Creative Minds International
AppleTree PCS- Columbia Heights
E.L. Haynes
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom
Washington Yu Ying
Breakthrough Montessori
Meridian Public Charter School

Is there any point in applying to DCPS (see below) out of bounds?
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Powell Elementary School
Ross Elementary School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens


If your goal is to pull your kid for PK4 or K and send to your IB, I would not go with the bilingual schools. You get all the hardship of a miserable commute and what is often a tough adjustment to the new language without any ultimate benefit of fluency.

Also, I'll say this - if you're the Ward 3 family that's trying to use my Ward 1 and 4 schools to park your kids through to K and aren't interested in the school community, find somewhere else. Too much work already trying to build community without families who are intentionally transient.

You’ll get into Appletree and you won’t piss people off by parking your kid there for only 1-2 years.

I'm sorry. All DC residents have equal rights to enter the lottery and put down choices that reflect their family situation. That means that Ward 3 families can lottery in for PK3 (and increasingly PK4 since those are being crowded out of overpacked schools) and then bail. You might not like it, but that is life. Ward 3 folks would love to have PK3 and to have enough PK4 slots. And no we are not all rich enough that sending our children to private school for 2 more years is a trivial choice.

+1. And people outside of Ward 3 have the right to apply for OOB slots at Wilson feeder schools and stay.

It goes both ways folks.

I am PP and I fully agree!!

Dude, you moved into Upper Upper for the privileges, and then want what I get because most of my neighbors are poor. Awesome.

Not sure what Dude did, but I moved from Columbia Heights to Upper Upper because the only home I could afford to buy was in Upper Upper. And you,PP, you bought and stayed in Lower Lower because you wanted your home to appreciate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK3 (in Anacostia and not thrilled with our IB choice even though it is getting better)

Two Rivers at Young
SWS
Stokes- East
Van Ness
Stokes
Tyler

I get that you aren't thrilled with your IB, but please make sure you are up for the commute to these schools. I am at one of them (we live close, thankfully, but we ranked our preferences based on proximity) and get really annoyed at the parents who complain about the commute.

Np. I think Anacostia pp put together this list mostly by taking geography into consideration. So no reason to assume they would complain about the commute. I'm curious which schools of the above your DC attends. I thought most of those listed are difficult to lottery into as OOB. Maybe your DC attends Stokes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in ward 3. Since there are no inbound schools for prek 3, I figure I'd have a better shot at Charter schools.
How do you rank:
Creative Minds International
AppleTree PCS- Columbia Heights
E.L. Haynes
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom
Washington Yu Ying
Breakthrough Montessori
Meridian Public Charter School

Is there any point in applying to DCPS (see below) out of bounds?
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Powell Elementary School
Ross Elementary School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens


If your goal is to pull your kid for PK4 or K and send to your IB, I would not go with the bilingual schools. You get all the hardship of a miserable commute and what is often a tough adjustment to the new language without any ultimate benefit of fluency.

Also, I'll say this - if you're the Ward 3 family that's trying to use my Ward 1 and 4 schools to park your kids through to K and aren't interested in the school community, find somewhere else. Too much work already trying to build community without families who are intentionally transient.

You’ll get into Appletree and you won’t piss people off by parking your kid there for only 1-2 years.

I'm sorry. All DC residents have equal rights to enter the lottery and put down choices that reflect their family situation. That means that Ward 3 families can lottery in for PK3 (and increasingly PK4 since those are being crowded out of overpacked schools) and then bail. You might not like it, but that is life. Ward 3 folks would love to have PK3 and to have enough PK4 slots. And no we are not all rich enough that sending our children to private school for 2 more years is a trivial choice.

+1. And people outside of Ward 3 have the right to apply for OOB slots at Wilson feeder schools and stay.

It goes both ways folks.

I am PP and I fully agree!!

Dude, you moved into Upper Upper for the privileges, and then want what I get because most of my neighbors are poor. Awesome.

Not sure what Dude did, but I moved from Columbia Heights to Upper Upper because the only home I could afford to buy was in Upper Upper. And you,PP, you bought and stayed in Lower Lower because you wanted your home to appreciate.

Not PP, but as someone who bought in lower lower, the prices, in 2014 at least, were 200,000 lower, at best, than upper upper. It wasn't an investment, me and all of my neighbors were priced out of upper upper. So we get free preschool but also meh elementary school options because even hrcs are meh. And we get no middle to hs options unless very lucky. I'd take upper upper any day over free preschool and meaningless appreciation of my house, meaningless because what is appreciation if you can't sell and move to better area because better area is 200,000+ more and your house won't appreciate that much for decades.

[Anonymous]

Swami, will you please register on dcum so that we can know when it is you posting? And can you please start a new swami thread that isn't filled with all these arguments, and maybe explain in the first post what you do? Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in ward 3. Since there are no inbound schools for prek 3, I figure I'd have a better shot at Charter schools.
How do you rank:
Creative Minds International
AppleTree PCS- Columbia Heights
E.L. Haynes
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom
Washington Yu Ying
Breakthrough Montessori
Meridian Public Charter School

Is there any point in applying to DCPS (see below) out of bounds?
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Powell Elementary School
Ross Elementary School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens


If your goal is to pull your kid for PK4 or K and send to your IB, I would not go with the bilingual schools. You get all the hardship of a miserable commute and what is often a tough adjustment to the new language without any ultimate benefit of fluency.

Also, I'll say this - if you're the Ward 3 family that's trying to use my Ward 1 and 4 schools to park your kids through to K and aren't interested in the school community, find somewhere else. Too much work already trying to build community without families who are intentionally transient.

You’ll get into Appletree and you won’t piss people off by parking your kid there for only 1-2 years.

I'm sorry. All DC residents have equal rights to enter the lottery and put down choices that reflect their family situation. That means that Ward 3 families can lottery in for PK3 (and increasingly PK4 since those are being crowded out of overpacked schools) and then bail. You might not like it, but that is life. Ward 3 folks would love to have PK3 and to have enough PK4 slots. And no we are not all rich enough that sending our children to private school for 2 more years is a trivial choice.

+1. And people outside of Ward 3 have the right to apply for OOB slots at Wilson feeder schools and stay.

It goes both ways folks.

I am PP and I fully agree!!

Dude, you moved into Upper Upper for the privileges, and then want what I get because most of my neighbors are poor. Awesome.

Not sure what Dude did, but I moved from Columbia Heights to Upper Upper because the only home I could afford to buy was in Upper Upper. And you,PP, you bought and stayed in Lower Lower because you wanted your home to appreciate.

Unless you inherited a family home or your relatives would only help you with a downpayment if you bought in a specific neighborhood, there is no way that can be true. You could somehow buy a house in upper NW but not in Woodridge or Hillcrest or Congress Heights or Brookland or Hill East?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in ward 3. Since there are no inbound schools for prek 3, I figure I'd have a better shot at Charter schools.
How do you rank:
Creative Minds International
AppleTree PCS- Columbia Heights
E.L. Haynes
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom
Washington Yu Ying
Breakthrough Montessori
Meridian Public Charter School

Is there any point in applying to DCPS (see below) out of bounds?
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Powell Elementary School
Ross Elementary School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens


If your goal is to pull your kid for PK4 or K and send to your IB, I would not go with the bilingual schools. You get all the hardship of a miserable commute and what is often a tough adjustment to the new language without any ultimate benefit of fluency.

Also, I'll say this - if you're the Ward 3 family that's trying to use my Ward 1 and 4 schools to park your kids through to K and aren't interested in the school community, find somewhere else. Too much work already trying to build community without families who are intentionally transient.

You’ll get into Appletree and you won’t piss people off by parking your kid there for only 1-2 years.

I'm sorry. All DC residents have equal rights to enter the lottery and put down choices that reflect their family situation. That means that Ward 3 families can lottery in for PK3 (and increasingly PK4 since those are being crowded out of overpacked schools) and then bail. You might not like it, but that is life. Ward 3 folks would love to have PK3 and to have enough PK4 slots. And no we are not all rich enough that sending our children to private school for 2 more years is a trivial choice.

+1. And people outside of Ward 3 have the right to apply for OOB slots at Wilson feeder schools and stay.

It goes both ways folks.

I am PP and I fully agree!!

Dude, you moved into Upper Upper for the privileges, and then want what I get because most of my neighbors are poor. Awesome.

Not sure what Dude did, but I moved from Columbia Heights to Upper Upper because the only home I could afford to buy was in Upper Upper. And you,PP, you bought and stayed in Lower Lower because you wanted your home to appreciate.

Unless you inherited a family home or your relatives would only help you with a downpayment if you bought in a specific neighborhood, there is no way that can be true. You could somehow buy a house in upper NW but not in Woodridge or Hillcrest or Congress Heights or Brookland or Hill East?

The PP said "home." You assume a SF house. Could well be an apartment or duplex.