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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our liberal take is let it run out until it’s socially intolerable for your kid or there’s nothing they can learn at their school.

If we wanted segregation or higher rigor those things go together and are available to us but we choose not to take them until nothing is working.

This has served us through high school. We sympathize with those who have changed schools and ache for those who are going to have kids become underprepared adults.[/quote]

Curious what kinds of schools you've sent your kids to.

We are at a Title 1 on the east side that has an ok middle school and terrible high school feed. We do not want segregation but we are getting it anyway just not in the way we expected -- if we stay then next year our older kid will be one of 3 non-black kids in the grade. We love the teachers and have found great families at the school and feel the academics are actually really solid even if the school itself has low test scores overall (we've found there is a cohort of kids on or above grade level in every class and the teachers so far have done a *great* job meeting these kids needs -- we really do not wind up having to supplement much at all though I feel that shifting for our older kid).

We feel like it's past time for us to move but got very unlucky in the lottery this past year so we're giving it another year. But what we're finding is that all our alternative options actually involve more integrated schools at least racially -- all the charters and other DCPS schools (and suburban schools if we wind up having to move) have very diverse racial demographics and still have substantial at-risk percentages though nowhere near as high as we have at our current school. I feel like if we stay we will wind up in a super segregated school population but just as super outliers.[/quote]

Here's what I did:

Try both kids each year for ITDS. Failing that, try at Latin for 5th, both locations. Failing that, try for 6th at DCI and Stuart-Hobson. Then either stay put through 8th and apply to Walls and Banneker, or stay at Latin, or move to Jackson-Reed or Montgomery County somewhere. For you it might be different depending on age of child and where you live/commute, and what kind of school you like (BASIS? Sojourner Truth?). Anyway, try to make a little flowchart of options you would genuinely be at peace with. We can help you do it, if you say what schools you like. [/quote]

DP. Have a similar plan with slightly different schools (looks like mostly a geography thing). Only thing I can't really come to terms with is what happens if we luck out at middle school? Do we move IB for a middle school option that works, still within the general vicinity of where we live/work/have community, or do we move somewhere with a high school path but less desirable commute and neighborhood/start over with relationships? Obviously I don't want to be in a position where we're moving for middle school and then again for high school (especially factoring in the impact on a younger sibling), but I also don't want to spend extra years living somewhere that is otherwise not great for our family unless we really have to.[/quote]

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