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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Transportation and lack of information about the lottery among many families. Despite the intense focus on the lottery on DCUM many families don’t know how to navigate it. Most importantly they don’t know that their best lottery chance is for PK3. By the time K rolls around, it’s too late. I think that many lower income families might also prefer not to start school at PK3, maybe because they have more stable childcare arrangements that go all day and through the summer? I noticed a big racial disparity in PK3 at our IB, which lessened in K. That made me think POC didn’t know about or didn’t want PK3. For SWS this would have an even bigger impact since there is no by-right K.

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That makes a lot of sense. It does make me wonder if SWS could do more to attract black and Latino families.

Part of the reason I’m asking this as a white parent is that I would feel strange sending my kid to such a white school in such a diverse city. It’s a negative to me. Seems like otherwise a fantastic school but I would worry about the long term message it sends to my kid. I’m also not trying to insulate my kid from diversity. It seems it would be in SWS’s long term interest to boost awareness of their program and work in transportation options for families in Hill East, east of the river, etc.[/quote]

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