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[quote=Anonymous]Is anyone making this commute? We are IB for a not-great DCPS on the Hill and have struck out getting into either a better DCPS or a charter in the lottery. It hasn't been totally critical yet because the ECE program at our school is perfectly good, even great, but we are now in 1st and I think this is the last year we can reasonably attend this school as it is simply not meeting our child's needs and I can see it's only going to get worse as we go up in grades.

We're hopeful that this year we will finally get into a better situation, but we're already looking at some of the other DCPS and charters nearby and feeling like it's not a good longterm solution. I mean, yes, if we got into Brent/L-T/Maury, we'd be thrilled, but obviously those middle school feeds aren't great. And we're now just a few years from middle school, so it's not as theoretical as it was when we were a PK3 family. Maybe we get lucky with the lottery for MS, maybe not.

I'm wondering if we should consider adding some elementaries in NW to our lottery (I realize I'm very late to the game on this and have to decide fast). Just wondering if people do this and if so, what schools they go to. Are there any on the red line that aren't a crazy commute? Are people commuting to Deal or Hardy from the Hill? Would we just be super outsiders and making our kid's social life impossible? Or does this seem like a forward thinking plan that might resolve some of our short-term angst about upper-elementary and middle school? We've never done a long school commute. We would consider moving to NW to be near a school we loved, but would not be able to do so for at least 3 more years due to a constraint outside our control.[/quote]

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