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[quote=Anonymous]If you have ideas for how ITS could recruit more low-income kids, please share. I would argue that one strategy is having open houses that don't particularly impress rich white parents of two-year-olds. Another is to accept children at ALL grade levels - PK3-8th grade - which many of the language immersion schools in the city do not do.

It's a numbers game. The most seats are available at PK3 at the school. There are more than a dozen kids applying for each available seat in PK3 and PK4. The school has done some outreach to apartments in Edgewood and at the RI Ave metro, but it is a really, really hard sell to convince a low-income family that they should learn about and fall in love with and preference ITS - even though their chance of getting in may be less than 10% - when their kid has a practically guaranteed seat at DC Prep up the street. (ITS had 245 PK3 kids on its waitlist after the lottery last year. DC Prep had 4.)

I'm trying to participate in this conversation in good faith, and I hear that you are frustrated, but there is no easy answer.[/quote]

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