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Pretty sure Wilson and miner also only take IB kids at this point for pre-K. DC makes this super easy. Just look at the website that people have sent around. If it says only kids IB get in and you aren’t IB… don’t add it to your list. It’s amazing to me how many lists I see on here where someone has put Brent, Maury, Lt, VN, etc it makes no sense. There’s plenty of other schools to put on your list and DC has an easy list of them to look through. [/quote]

Fixed your formatting because I wanted to reply to this. Looking at the data for waitlists, Miner had a 10 person waitlist on results day and has made 10 offers, for PK3. So it's a great option for a Maury family that wants a decent public PK with a very short commute. It's actually surprising more people don't opt for it -- I have no idea why someone would prefer Appletree over Miner. I toured both when we were doing the PK3 lottery a few years ago and honestly preferred Miner.

J.O. Wilson is less likely but the waitlist often moves quickly late in the summer. They have had 14 offers on a waitlist of 24 already this year. Entirely feasible you could get in OOB if the waitlist cuts your way in terms of number of siblings and where else people get in. It's another one that I'm surprised people on the Hill don't aim for more frequently, especially if they are IB for schools like L-T and Maury, because it's [i]right there[/i], has a good PK program, and is a much easier to get into.

I hear Hill parents who are IB for L-T, Brent, Maury, and Peabody fretting over PK lottery and I honestly don't get it. [b]It's weird entitlement.[/b] You are guaranteed slots at those schools for K! You don't have to stress about getting into a decent elementary, playing the charter roulette, contemplating long school commutes for years and years. You get that PK is just, like, supervised playtime, right? Your kid is going to go do morning circle, some reading/writing/numbers stuff, free play, and a few specials like foreign language and PE. It's pretty much the same curriculum everywhere. You could send your kid to PK at basically any DCPS or charter and then attend your IB for elementary, and you will be in a better situation than 90% of families in DC.[/quote]

I have heard people say the bolded before and don't understand why wanting a PK3 spot at your IB school is entitlement.  People do not think that they are entitled to a spot- they just want to go there.  There are reasons beyond curriculum that people want to go to specific schools.  I wanted an IB spot for PK because the school was in walking distance, I wanted my kids to start making friends with kids that they would be going to school with and to start getting to know the school community.  I never felt entitled to a spot so calling it that is simply not accurate.  [/quote]

Yes, I think you're being a bit harsh.

I live next to Maury. I mean literally, the school is our neighbor. Our street gave up give up half of our parking spaces for teachers (and will lose even more parking spaces now that Maury is again expanding its playground and getting rid of most of its parking lot).

We go to another PreK. It's fine. But it is frustrating to be across the street/IB to one school and then need to go way out of our way for another PreK.

So I don't think it's quite entitlement. It's just frustrating. [/quote]

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