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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My primary resentment towards SWS is not that it's not black enough, too black, or doesn't teach kids.

It's that it's impossible to get into and you basically have to luck into it, and then looks down on us for sending our kid to our IB DCPS (which isn't Maury/Brent/L-T, we cannot afford to live IB for one of those schools). I get tired of hearing about the "SWS approach" because it's not something available to me as a family because we could not lottery in. I feel the same way about the Montessori schools and the immersion schools and the "good" DCPS schools. My kid goes to an okay DCPS that serves a large population of at risk kids, and we deal with all the challenges that come along with that. We've struck out in the lottery repeatedly.

I wish people at SWS and these other schools would just learn to SHUT UP about how great their school is, and that we could focus on doing something about the many people in this city with kids attending schools that can't raise a ton of money via the PTO, have to deal with DCPS stupidity every day, have no leeway in curriculum, and generally just kind of limp along.

Congrats, you won the lottery. Go away now.[/quote]

If you are willing to switch schools (and want to, which is obviously not necessarily the case), you have overwhelmingly good odds of getting into L-T for 3rd+. You also have decent odds of getting Brent (e.g., they offered 50%+ of their K waitlist last year). I totally get not wanting to play the lottery year after year and switch late in your kid's ES years, but it's just not true that most people are "stuck" at their IBs. Lotterying into schools gets much easier as kids get older. Not sure if you consider Watkins an upgrade from where you are, but FYI, they currently have empty space in every single grade. They did fill their seats in the lottery for any grade except 2nd, which had zero kids on the waitlist initially.[/quote]

I appreciate this. We have lotteried each year with no luck, entering 1st next year. I get we’ll probably get in somewhere else eventually. But it also sucks to have to move your kid in the middle of elementary. And the reason schools like Brent have spaces in 3-5 is because people leave for privates and charters. The real community building happens in ECE and early grades, and moving at that point is not the same as going all the way through.

[b]Which, again, is why this whole conversation is annoying as hell. A bunch of people who either lucked out with the lottery early or can afford to buy IB for well-resources schools with strong communities, bickering about whether SWS’s Reggio approach is significantly academic enough. It’s obnoxious. Just be happy with what you have, it’s much more than most.[/b][/quote]

+1[/quote]

I feel the same way about people who lucked into Latin middle school, then tell me they don’t like private schools because they aren’t available to everyone. [/quote]

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