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[quote=Anonymous]We live out of the area now, but I remember the stress of the lottery so clearly. My oldest child was born in 2010, which gave us a year where every charter had its own lottery as well as all the DCPS, when OOB admissions were a lot more reliable all over the city, when people did a lot of shuffling in September and even October.

It created such an atmosphere of "is this the BEST choice" that it made people with really great options (as you sound like you have) really stress over which best option was BEST.

In reality, the best choice for your child is probably that you pick one of these 4 strong schools and then stop choosing. Don't enter the lottery for that child again unless there is a PROBLEM at school.

The "trading up" mindset is absolutely toxic and when I think of the DCPS lottery, that's what I think of. A lot of kids would have benefited more from the stability of staying in the one school for PK3-5th grade rather than attending 3 schools between August and November of PK3 and then 2 other schools before middle school due to lottery "winning."[/quote]

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