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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any Ward 4 councilmembers who doesn't fight to keep Shepherd in Deal/Wilson will lose support in SP, and consequently lose their seat. Way too much political power in SP to cross.

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Many parents in SP don't even send their kids to Wilson (they go to JPDS and other privates). [b]Shepherd is a small school[/b], and Todd or anybody else would care more about Lafayette parents, than Shepherd parents. [b]New North needs a strong cohort. SP to New North/Coolidge. 
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-Ward 4 mother. [/quote]

You contradict yourself, how can you said that [b]Shepherd is a small school[/b] and that  [b]New North needs a strong cohort[/b], how is the small SP cohort going to change/influence New North and Coolidge. No SP parent will sent their kids at Coolidge the way the school is right now, have you seen the score?? This is going end with no win, SP will send their kids somewhere else, New North/Coolidge will stay the same or be worst because they didn't have a plan B. Find a better way to improve your neighborhood school, thinking that SP will be the savior of Ward 4 school is a huge failure waiting to happen.[/quote]

+1.  Many SP parents don't opt in for Wilson as it is, choosing private/parochial instead--there's no way they'll opt in for Coolidge any time in the near future.[/quote]

This is very true. Coolidge is just a non-starter, and if SP boundaries change to New North and Coolidge then we'll see a decrease in IB parents choosing Shepherd too.

On a related note, do you think that if Shepherd improves, then more IB parents would send their kids there and then on to Deal and Wilson? [b]I've heard a lot of negative press about Shepherd from some IB parents who opted out[/b], and am wondering if some parents are just continuing the private school path because they started it in elementary. Kids and parents make friends at the private, they're doing well so why move them, etc. So if the Shepherd experience becomes more attractive, then would they stay the DCPS course to Deal and Wilson?[/quote]

How old are their kids?  I think many families in the neighborhood with kids in lower grades have been opting in, and the in-boundary numbers in the lower grades--along with IB waitlists for PK3/4--reflect that.

Those I know with kids in lower grades that have opted out are typically at LAMB, YY, or a smattering of other immersion schools.[/quote]

I live IB and have a child in an upper grade at SES. First there just aren’t many kids in the neighborhood. Second many of the kids who would be in 4th or 5th go to religious schools. I know of 3 black/AA children this age who attend private. The parents are not anti-SES but rather anti-DCPS. I would like to know what negative things people are saying about the upper grades. I am rather surprised to hear that people bail at the upper grades.[/quote]

PP here and agree with all you said.  Which is why I asked the PP who heard negative things about Shepherd how old those kids are.  I've heard that many IB families bailed like 10-15 years ago, when there was some instability at the school.  But haven't heard anything like this more recently.  Lots of families with current elementary students or toddlers seem to have moved to SP with a plan to send their kids to Shepherd.  The only notable exception are those that either 1) attend the area synagogues and plan to send their kids to Milton, or 2) those with kids currently at DCI feeders.[/quote]

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