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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - not interested in playing any cards. We'll just take our chances with whatever transfer or lottery opportunities there are when the time comes.

We are not looking to go to Yorktown and I suspect my son's friends are also going to continue to play the lottery for schools. They are more likely to want to go to ArlTech or W-L for IB. [/quote]

Yea, well, after your son spends three years at WMS and virtually his entire class goes on to Yorktown you might end up with a kid who wants Yorktown.  Have you given that any thought??[/quote]

Of course. I just spent 6 years at an option school, where all the kids come from across the county and are either going to one of 6 other programs or going private. I feel pretty capable in explaining how that works.[/quote]

Way to miss my whole point.

My point is that you're talking about putting a kid in a middle school where virtually the entire class will end up in a high school where admission for your own kid is at most a crap shoot.  So what happens when your kid goes to WMS, makes a bunch of friends there, then wants to go on with them to high school but can't and is disappointed?  And for what?  Just so he could go to WMS?  It makes no sense.  [/quote]

We all do what makes sense for our family and consider the options. I appreciate coming to DCUM b/c people will tell you what they think and give you angles that you might not have considered. I think plenty of kids at every school go on to not attend the same school as most of their peers. People move away, things change. You raise your kids to be resilient. That said, I know from my spouse that not everyone has to deal with that and it is a strange concept. They went to the same school for 13 years, with the same kids, and the concept of changing schools was something they had to work through when we decided to go public.

I wouldn't make a call based on a hypothetical sadness.[/quote]

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