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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not see anything really wrong with saying you would have seriously considered or think that you would have gone with in-bound DCPS had you not gotten a lottery spot and decided to attend a Latin or Basis.  It is certainly more true for some people than others.  But kids really want to keep their close elementary school friends after they scatter.  And a lot of people really do have a 4th grade plan that is basically try DCPS if not charter.  Sure maybe they would have changed that plan without lottery luck.  But who cares.  Although DCUM refuses to believe it, I think some people also increasingly have a plan that is just try DCPS.[/quote]

I believe this for elementary and MS. Not for HS. When someone claims they would have been happy with Eastern, after getting their kids into Walls, I simply do not believe them.

But I also find it condescending when parents who got lottery spots at charters say this because it just comes off as condescending to those of us who didn't get those spots. Just admit that we all tried to lottery into charters, you got in and we didn't. It is tiresome when a family who is IB for the school you attend, but who sends their kids elsewhere, is like "oh it's a great school, we definitely would have been completely happy there if be hadn't gotten into our charter." Oh really? Then why did you lottery for and then send your kids to a charter? Why do you commute further to attend that charter when the IB is just up the street? It really doesn't sound like you think you'd be equally happy at your IB so maybe don't say that. [/quote]

I think it's fine to have one school you prefer [b]but other schools that you consider also very good[/b]. And some people live closer to charter schools than they do to their IB. [/quote]

This is DC. With respect to MS and HS it just isn't so.[/quote]

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