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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread kind of makes me jealous of the vast majority of American parents who just enroll their kids in their suburban boundary school because that’s what’s available to them. Though I realize it’s a double edge sword, if those schools don’t work for their kid, most parents do not have another option. Moving or private school aren’t realistic to most of our country, where in the DC UMC it seems almost like a given if things aren’t working out. [/quote]

it is extremely coming throughout the rest of the country for parents to choose where they live specifically for the school their home is zoned for. Yes, they just send their kid to the local school, but they didn’t randomly end up where they did.

DC seems to be full of more oblivious parents who wake up one day and realize the house they bought with the great walk to all the bars and coffee shops is zoned for a terrible school. [/quote]

Other cities - not all of them, but a lot - have test-in programs and schools for kids with academic needs that won't be met otherwise. People outside have of DC have expressed surprise when I explain that, no, that's not a thing here. Obviously at some point as a parent you figure that out, but maybe not before you've moved here or bought a house. [/quote]

I generally think people know their schools aren’t good but plan to lottery, go private, or move if it doesn’t work out. And for the most part, families who are buying in DC for the last ~10 years have the ability to do that. People buying for the schools in the burbs are often doing that because they know it’s their best option, whether the reason is that they can’t afford to move again or go private, or there isn’t really an option to go to an OOB or charter. [/quote]

I think we all keep thinking the schools will get better by the time our kids are in them. We started at our title 1 IB in PK3, now kid is in 4th grade. We have been shut out of lottery every single year.    The school has been better than expected but sadly all the friends we made in early grades have all moved, or gone to charters.  Socially its ok, but there are no play dates or birthday invites etc. Lots of kids are driven to school and we don't meet the parents at playgorund etc.  We are definitely moving before middle school. We had hoped that after 7 or 8 years the middle school feed would be a better option but its not.  I have lived in DC for 25 years and realize it takes close to 20 years to turn a DCPS middle school around[/quote]

Where do you live and where were you aiming for? There are totally solid schools that exhausted their entire 3rd grade lists this year, so it doesn't seem possible to get shut out every year unless you're just focused on the Deal MS feed.[/quote]

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