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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, don't immediately buy into the premise of the L-T booster on here.  In many ways, these issues are separate.  Even if L-T was one of the highest performing schools on the Hill, I would still want preference at SWS because it is significantly closer to my house. I walk by it four to five times a day as I go about my daily life. If I lived that close to J.O. Wilson but was districted into L-T, I would want preference at Wilson - because that is how the system works and that is the benefit afforded to other parents in other neighborhoods in the city.  None of us controls where DCPS opens or closes schools.  We all must live with the decisions of the school board.  But, once they have made their decisions, we have always had the right to send our kids to the open public schools in our area.  There are people who seem to think that it is unfair that this area is where the school board chose to locate this new school.  Maybe that was a mistake and they should have chosen an area of the city that already had fewer schools.  But, they didn't.  That is not the fault of the people who live in the school's new neighborhood.  [b]Don't blame them for wanting to be treated like every other parent in DC who lives within 1500 ft of a public school building.[/b]

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Nobody's blaming them for anything, just pointing out that it's not a regular DCPS and they're not entitled to be treated in a manner more special than every other family that lives within 1500 ft of a public school building.

#1  People all over the city live near schools where they don't have preference.  Some of them are charters with great reputations (i.e., EL Haynes).  Some of them are city-wide (McKinley or CHM).  Nonetheless, there's no "in"  There's nothing special about a few blocks around Prospect that entitles a few families to skip to the head of the line.

#2  As has been previously observed, "they" (DCPS) had to choose a facility that was A) available in the first place, and B) reasonable for the families already in the school.  Prospect fits the bill, simple as that.  End of story.[/quote]

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