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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of us are deciding whether to prioritize DCI feeder schools in our lottery choices, including taking on longer commutes and giving up neighborhood schools. Especially  without a guarantee anymore, the academics are absolutely relevant. I’m much less willing to gamble our elementary experience on a chance at a school with academics I don’t have total confidence in. If you take middle and high school out of consideration, school choices look much different.[/quote]

I don't mean to sound patronizing, but if you are trying to decide on how to rank a charter school pre-K program in your lottery list based on where this year's DCI graduates are going to college, you are in for a long a bumpy road with DCPS. By the time your child is in high school, DCI will be a very different place (for better or worse), and neighborhood or language charter feeder patterns will likely have shifted, again. Charters are a big experiment and the DC government is unpredictable. The whole thing, on some level, is a gamble.[/quote]

Not to sound patronizing to you, but ECE is the best and sometimes only time to get into those feeder schools, and 6th grade isn’t that far from kindergarten, especially if you prioritize not moving your child multiple times in elementary. So no, it’s not too soon to evaluate a middle school path when the choices you make now foreclose one potential pathway going forward.[/quote]

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