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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The lottery is stressful.  It makes people try to identify and fixate on the “best” options.  There are actually a lot of solid DCPS options citywide.  We ended up going to our run of the mill IB DCPS because shrug it was just ECE and then staying at that same school through upper elementary.[/quote]

I think for some families, especially families who can rest pretty well assured that their kids will be assumed to be smart/competent based on their demographics, that is very true... but not all schools serve all kids (or kids from all demographic groups) equally well. For example, a bunch of families in my neighborhood are happy sending their [White] kids to a PCS in our neighborhood, where the most recent scores show <5% of Black kids and >80% of White kids are proficient in math... about 25% of that score gap is probably attributable to SES based on overall school demographics and the performance gap at other local schools with similar demographics. I am not confident that my Black child will be presumed to be smart/competent at a school where they clearly are not teaching Black kids math. In short, I am not looking for "best" schools... I am looking for schools with subgroup test scores that show that my child will be likely to get a decent education, and that really limits things for us.

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