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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ Every one of my long-time neighbors (EOTP Ward 4/Coolidge HS) sent their kids WOTP for MS and HS.

[b]They HATE the lottery (it affects their grandkids) because they say it was easy to enroll OOB in Hardy, Deal and Wilson pre- Common Lottery[/b]. SWW and Banneker were popular destinations too, but SWW was a very different kind of school then (appealed to kids who didn't like regular school, pursued opportunities across the city and many graduated and went on to work, not college).[/quote]

It was easier to get into those schools pre-common lottery because DC had fewer kids attending public school. The lottery isn't what made it harder. The lottery made it more equal, in that non-selective schools no longer require people to camp out (see Oyster) or write essays (Jefferson Middle) but the fact that there were 10,000 more kids under 5 in DC in 2016 than in 2010, and more rich people are trying their IB schools, does make it harder to get an OOB spot.[/quote]

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