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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually think the opposite on the specialty programs. I guess we would be considered "elite", and lotteried into French Immersion. We really wanted an immersion program for our children. Our next option was to buy a home in one of the better performing school zones. Private was option 3.

However - the lottery is too late for parents who are heavily leaning toward private. So I think a lot of the people who you are talking about have already signed on the dotted line for private school by the time the lottery rolls around.[/quote]

This is us exactly.  Between DH and I we have 6 degrees; we live in PG because we're cheap and have a lot of debt from paying off those 6 degrees!  HHI currently 180K and we will move out before our daughter hits school age (she's not yet 2) because the lottery timing is terrible.  Public education is my priority and I can't count on PG.  So to speak to the original question, the lottery is and should be for all, but those programs need to be expanded so there's a better chance of middle and upper middle class people sticking around.  Ideally, yes, our local school would also be improved, but I think you have to prioritize charter expansion first.[/quote]

If you want more specialty schools, are you actively advocating for that?  There is a form letter on another thread on this board, have you sent it to your school board representative or school CEO Maxwell?  We are where you will be (DD is 4) and moving is easier said than done.  The math has worked for us just going for private.[/quote]

I totally understand, and no, I haven't done as much as I should to advocate for the change.  I guess I'm cynical and don't believe the desire is really there.

For us, we'd move even if the math said do private over relocating.  I don't like living so far from the city and really miss where we used to rent (dodgy end of Takoma Park).[/quote]

Well for us we said we'd move to somewhere with a better commute *and* better schools (because moving is a freaking pain).  I don't know where you live, but we could not find anything that satisfied both of those criteria that was a sane financial proposition.  Like I said, I was where you are, and I had almost your exact reasoning, and I probably wrote exactly the same thing you just wrote on some discussion thread a few years ago.

If you are so committed to public schools that you will move over the issue, you should probably at least attempt to advocate for your interests.  It's not like you don't have to do that in other counties because their school systems are just peachy keen with no problems.  [/quote]

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