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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The boundary is too big and weirdly shaped. Most people within the boundary are closer to another school on the Hill, so they go there instead. Watkins then becomes a school for Ward 7 and 8.[/quote]

+1. On the blocks converging around 7th & Maryland, nearly everyone goes to L-T despite being zoned for Watkins. They all get proximity preference so can get in by PK4 or K if they want to and most families do these days. L-T is about 5 blocks straight down 7th (older kids can commute alone) vs Watkins being virtually on the other side of the Hill. Most kids go to Peabody for PK3 (can't get into L-T then even with older siblings typically) and then change to L-T by 1st at the latest.[/quote]

We just wrapped up K at Peabody and are not going to Watkins. The boundary is really weird, most of my kids class has proxmity preference at Brent, LT or Maury. We live near Peabody and have proximity at both LT and Maury and got into one of those this year and would have gotten into the other one if we had ranked it before the one we got into. We are moving to Arlington so didn't enroll in another option but if we stayed on the Hill, we would have. Most people IB have options at other schools and use those options. We had a pretty good experience at Peabody - loved the teachers, did not love school leadership. The people we know who have kids at Watkins and are IB are very committed to Watkins and public school in general and do a lot of work to make the Cluster a good place, but I don't have the energy to do a part time job on top of my fulltime job so my kids can have the basics. Watkins will not get better until the boundary is changed to limit peoples other options to get into other more attractive DCPS schools. [/quote]

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