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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like what Oyster-Adams has been doing for years. For pre-K lottery, sibling preference trumps everything else including language dominance, ethnicity, and boundary. But principal discretion had always trumped lottery and policy at the school. There are still quite a few siblings of OOB kids of non-Spanish speaking, non-Hispanic parents who were admitted under the previous regimes. But there is no way to guarantee that any student stays at the school. Some say Powell is the new Oyster and that it, along with charters, will siphon off a lot more bilingual students and Spanish-dominant families from O-A. It's already been happening, but the previous principal didn't seem to want to acknowledge it publicly. It's not clear if the new principal understands how defection has accelerated among the large population of OOB siblings. O-A maintains its capacity and reputation with a combination of IB lower elementary students who are mostly not from Spanish-dominant families, and have a high attrition rate, and OOB Spanish-proficient students entering 4th through 8th. That has not be a bad thing academically and socially in the recent past before the rapid spread of language immersion charter schools. But it's not sustainable in this day and age.

However things work out at Oyster-Adams, the good news is that there are more and higher quality language immersion options in the city. [/quote]

Oyster has an ethnicity preference?[/quote]

No.  There is a language (Spanish) preference for OOB families.  The pp is woefully misinformed on many accounts.  Btw, envious people have been predicting Oyster's demise/diminished reputation/implosion for decades.  Yet it still remains the gold standard by which all other public dual immersion schools (within DC and the larger DC Metro area) are measured.  No one at Oyster is losing sleep over the proliferation of dual immersion schools in DC.  I actually welcome it.  Perhaps then, people will stop trying to lie, cheat and steal their way into Oyster.  Please take those desperate schemes across town to other dual immersion schools that need a test score, reputation or enrollment boost.[/quote]

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