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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't have it both ways. Everyone who pays DC taxes can play the lottery regardless of their zip code.  [/quote]
Let's get radical here. How about everyone who pays DC taxes has equal access to all DC schools. Crickets from Ward 3...[/quote]

If you swapped the Janney student body with one from a failing school, Janneys test scores would plummet. Just one reason of a million why filling NW schools with OOB kids won't help those kids and why a city wide lottery means failure for all kids.[/quote]

+1. The number 1 reason a school is good is because the students are well-prepared. And not well-prepared by some PreK program, well-prepared by their parents (and their genes). So more high SES kids even for just a year or two in a preK program will be good for that program. It is too bad for the school if they don't stay, but the school isn't any worse off for them having been there. As for the "ill-prepared" kids that might replace them for K, see above: having attended PreK at that school could have only mitigated that so much. It's not a matter of "saving" or "killing" the school. So as PP above said, OP needs to lobby for more high-SES IB parents to choose her school, THAT really is her problem.[/quote]

The school is "worse off" because when they leave they are replaced by OOB kids who did not attend PK and are not ready for K in the same way as the rest of the cohort. [/quote]

The point is that that argument is flawed.[/quote]

+100. The anti-OOB sentiment displayed by some of these PPs is astounding.[/quote]

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