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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on.  Posters on here can move to the burbs or go to their IB middle school. Go private or parochial.  Move to WOTP.  You can also rent in any neighborhood to go to the school you want.

People have options.  Let’s not pretend they don’t.

We declined Latin.  We know a family who declined Basis.  Many families at our feeder did not even play the lottery in 5th.

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Come on, families EotP who aren't wealthy don't tend to have great middle or high school options, increasingly the case. Let's not pretend that they invariably do. I know this after 30 years in Ward 6. It's not easy to move to the burbs when you've been dug in here for decades. It's not easy to go for a private or parochial for multiple children on a Fed government salary, even if you could get a spot (often not the case). Some of us don't go parochial, although we could afford it at a stretch, because we're not Christian, or we're Christians who hated parochial school.

We headed to DCI only after failing to get off the WLs for Basis and both Latins. We rejected our in-boundary middle school because the high school it feeds into is a dead end. We're lucky to have a Walls spot for the fall, a much better commute for our student. [/quote]

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