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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow I really hope that thing about schools knowing which of their current families submitted lottery applications is a lie! We are/were considering moving this summer for reasons totally unrelated to schools, since we love our school. But I threw in a lottery app with a few charters in reasonable locations for our potential move this year just in case, since we have no idea where exactly we might end up. If we don't move (which is looking likely given the current state of the housing market), I can't see us leaving our current school. And if we do move, we're as likely to wind up in a nearby suburb as another part of DC, so we might be leaving for a school in MD or VA anyway, making our lottery app moot.

Anyway, I'd just hate to think our school knows about this application and thinks we are thinking of jumping ship out of dissatisfaction because nothing could be further from the truth.

I hate the lottery system. Stuff like this is dumb.[/quote]

The school doesn't care and it's a given that parents will keep options open.  This is especially true but not limited to approaching MS.  Sometimes it's positioning siblings to have better options.  Or a family wants language immersion.  Or commute related to job.  The schools generally want to retain families who want to stay but they don't take it personally.[/quote]

+ 1 A school might take notice if they suddenly see a huge increase in the number of current students entering the lottery while seeing fewer students than usual trying to get into the school, but no one is going through lists and saying "I really thought Hester was a friend but now I'm going to give her the evil eye at pickup."[/quote]

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