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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, I don't think older kids had the same odds. Wait lists in many neighborhoods across the city are much longer now than they were 5 years ago. [/quote]

Please. Most of those kids took a flyer on an unknown quantity back in the day. They were willing to take the risk and helped to make the successful charters what they are now. You are welcome to do that with new charters as well.[/quote]

That has long been the dumbest argument about this topic. It's like complaining that housing prices were lower five years ago so some could afford to buy IB WOPT.[/quote]

No, it's like complaining that someone who bought a house in Columbia Heights 10 years ago was more fortunate. But that person took a risk on a "transitional" neighborhood that has panned out. Go and buy in Michigan Park if you want to try the same thing.[/quote]

Actually it is nothing like buying a house.

In our IB school, roughly 40 to 50 students had been applying to the ECE program for years. Our year it was 75 and it hasn't dropped below 65 in the 6 years since. These things make massive jumps year to year and DCPS is unable to plan for it in a meaningful way.
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That being said, you have to have sib preference in some way. I'm just always amazed how quickly people are to shut the door on the people behind them.[/quote]

I’m just not sure I agree that at a neighborhood school sibling #4 from across the street should have more right to an ECE spot than child 1 of another family. Assuming of course that neither is at risk. (I would be totally on board for an economic preference).  I get that the family commuting across town to a charter is in a different position but in a neighborhood school Baby 4 can wait a year or find another option just as easily as Baby 1. [/quote]

So you're just talking about JKLM again? Or what? Because the IBs I know have plenty of space. Or, at least, a pretty good amount of space. And, you're guaranteed at K so who cares, private daycare for 2 more years. Big whoop. Cry me a river.[/quote]

Right, it should be big whoop for Baby 4 as well.  Cry me a river. [/quote]

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