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There's a very good reason DCPS and everyone else in the city is glad it's going to be a city-wide school with no neighborhood preference.  You can't support the schools you have, you certainly don't need an advantage at any more.[/quote]

If you wish to make [b]an overly simplistic argument,[/b] sure.  By support, are you talking about the uniformly fully subscribed early childhood programs plus IB waitlists or the inconsistently IB enrolled upper ES?  Worlds of difference between these two groups.

Not " everyone else in the city is glad it's going to be a city-wide school with no neighborhood preference".   Do you have a point regarding SWS or are you just mocking PP?  I disagreed with PP on proximity rights, but your statement just doesn't jibe with the school community's perspective.  There's a broad range of opinions on this within the SWS community.  I don't try to speak for anyone other than myself, and perhaps you should try the same.[/quote]

There's nothing overly simplistic about the fact that a significant majority of DCPS schools on the Hill are largely OOB.  The one right around the corner from Prospect/SWS (LT) is one of them.  None - absolutely none, even Brent - are full of IB students all the way through 5th.   So, since SWS is expanding up to 5th, giving proximity preference would only result in the same lack of support that every other school on the Hill "enjoys."  Far better to make it city-wide so that the same children who enter in PS/PK will actually stay all the way through.  If the Hill really needs another ES, it should prove it by maxing out the ones it has.

Neither Ward 3 nor any other WotP school is lobbying for a brand new ES with preference just for them - and those schools are so packed to the gills that it could actually be justified.  There's just no logical reason to give undue preference to the Hill families who've decided they don't like the school they have, and they want a larger slice of the collective pie.[/quote]

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