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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do kids at any of these schools have another non-bilingual school they get IB preference for (including in the ECE lottery)?[/quote]

Why would get a preference to another school?  They already get a guarantee to a specialized program that the majority of other DCPS students can never access.  Bilingual schools should be citywide.  But if you are wealthy enough you can buy into it.   [/quote]

I actually asked because if they had IB preference to a different school in ECE, I think it would eliminate some of the concern over be systematically disadvantaged in this school's lottery.[/quote]

That’s a great question and the DCPS policy actually speaks to it directly. The alternative monolingual school option is only available for compulsory grades, meaning K and up, not pre-K.

I’m not sure what you mean by those systematically disadvantaged, but in general the alternative schools are less in demand than the bilingual schools, so there aren’t a ton of families that opt for, say, Tubman instead of Bancroft. And by kindergarten everyone IB will have the right to enroll in either school, so it’s really just two years of pre-K which aren’t guaranteed anyways.[/quote]

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