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[quote=Anonymous]I hate to be the Debbie Downer -

Things are changing so fast in DC right now that some families I know that got older children into a solid OOB school can not execute the plan to get younger child in and are now stuck.   I know 2 families that got older child into Hyde and Stoddard a few years ago and they have no shot at all of getting younger one in now for PreK - and they do not know when they will get the younger one in.

My point is - the only sure thing you have is your in-bounds school.  If this is not something you are comfortable with, either work NOW to make it something you are comfortable with, make sure you are camping out the night the application process occurs for charters that wait list is driven by order they are received, be ready to spend $ for private.

There are a lot more young families in the area you are looking - everyone right now will say they are committed to the school - but the minute a better option comes they will take it.

5 years ago, who would have guessed that Oyster would no longer qualify for Title 1 funding?  They are losing 1/2 of their teachers.  I could not imagine what the school will look like next year.  The assumptions that many people were working under have fundamentally changed.

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