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Let's not forget that Cap Hill Day School recently spent a full school year in a temporary space -- pods, trailers, whatever -- at the SE Waterfront.  It's not like they discounted tuition or bled enrollment.[/quote]

It was actually 1/2 a year, and they knew where and when they would be moving back.  It was a different situation at SWS-- no one knew where the permanent site was going to be.[/quote]

I'm actually going to miss the Annex.  It's a lot nicer than some permanent schools I've seen, albeit cramped.  There's some degree of calculated risk and reward too.  What was the worst case scenario for an IB SWS family making the call last year?  An unsatisfactory year and switching to Watkins or testing lottery/charters?  The upside is 6-8 years of access to a program which is a good fit for DC.  The next risk is MS, but that's one shared pretty equally by Hill ES communities.  As the Chancellor stated yesterdary, there will be new boundaries in place by 2014-2015, as well as plans for a new Ward 6 neighborhood school for the SE Waterfront area in the Van Ness building.

Of course that doesn't help anyone denied the future opportunity for boundary preference for their toddler or infant at SWS PK, but last year some IB families did enter, stay in or switch to the Cluster -- for reasons of their own, which may have been sibling colocation, program preference, risk aversion . . . ?  I certainly couldn't speak to everyone's considerations.[/quote]

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