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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or they could stop fearing brown children and send their kids to Leckie.[/quote]

This is really short sighted. We Have two children at Leckie and it isn’t the kids, it’s everything else that makes us want to move them next year. I won’t go into detail but it’s not good at all. And just like any other family, we have the right to try the lottery for an OOB spot. [/quote]

I don’t have any issue with you using the lottery. I have an issue with military families thinking they need a special preference in the lottery. [/quote]

The only school where they will get a preference is at the charter they are founding. The lottery timeline does NOT align in any way shape or form with when the military decides to move families around. DCPS can only give them access to any school without a waiting list, or Leckie. Also even at this charter  -- which hasn't been approved yet -- 50% of the seats will go to non-military families. But military families, up to the 50% of seats, could enroll whenever they arrive in DC

As for your issue with military families and whether they should have a lottery preference, you are too late. The Council already created that option a couple years back and this school has been in the works for a while. I support it wholeheartedly; these families have unique needs, are not paid nearly enough.

-DC resident who is not a military family and whose kids are too old to attend[/quote]

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