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[quote=Anonymous]Let's face it.

The number of slots available at PS3, the most common entering year (probably by an order of magnitude), leaves newly entering parents with odds something like 1 out of 50 or 1 out of 100 to get their kid a seat.  Sometimes worse.

At numbers like that, charters aren't worth counting on in any reasonable way.  Which of you, at work or elsewhere, tell your bosses or anyone who counts on you for anything: "well, there's a 97-99% chance that it'll never happen.  But we're planning on that, for now."

I would tell parents living in DC that they should all enter all the lotteries they are interested in, then immediately forget they applied, so that maybe, someday in late March, they might get a call saying their kid was admitted or a postcard with a waitlist number under 10.  Otherwise, look at whether you can live with your inbound school, think you can win the DCPS lottery somehow, know of a private school you like and can afford (and get into) or would like to move.

As far as life goes for those of us in the game today, there might as well be no such thing as Mundo Verde.  Probably the same for LAMB, Capital City, EL Haynes, Two Rivers and all the other places that the PCS Board or others would like to tout as examples of happy rainbow success.

So - at this point, I have decided that the game is either our inbound school, where the kid got a slot, or a local Catholic school. And that's it.  And nobody should be under any illusions that there are any likely alternatives.[/quote]

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