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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In areas where the IB school is good, preK is a nice to have.  Where you do not have guaranteed access to a good elementary school, it is one of a few paths for getting into a good elementary school, so losing out on the lottery is also losing out on one of a family's few opportunities to get into a good school.  The solution if you strike out repeatedly is to move and it becomes clear that the choice provided to DC families is only a choice if your family is lucky.  That must be incredibly disheartening.

the complaining by those that have good elementary options by right do not generate much sympathy from me but there also is this larger issue.[/quote]

This.  I think school "choice" is a farce and a scam.  Unless you are rich enough to live IB for one of the good schools or lucky enough in the lottery, you are SOL.  That's not choice, that's either wealth or good luck.  We tried the lottery for one year, hated the charter we went with, and the thought of playing the lottery game again on top of all of the other negatives about DC was more than I could bear.  So we bailed.  Our IB school was crap.  I feel for my friends who are still there trying to make this work.  [/quote]

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