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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the plus side, if you only have one child, you only have to commit residency fraud once to get your kid into a JR feeder. No moving in and out of bounds every few years for each kid.[/quote]

It's not residency fraud....

God, that thread was a week of my life I'm never getting back. [/quote]

Ha, I know. I was just poking the bear.

OP, I hear you, it IS unfair for us, even if it generally is fair overall. If your decision to stay in the city rides on whether you get into DCI feeder (which I don't think it should, but that's a different conversation), then you are 100% correct that the sibling preference system makes it overwhelmingly less likely that it will work out eventually. Which absolutely sucks when you see everyone else around you not having to make the same crappy decision. That said, give it some time. You may get lucky, or you may realize that you are perfectly happy at Takoma or Whittier for all of elementary and are willing to keep playing the lottery for longer than you think. Seats open up in elementary, particularly if you are willing to commute farther or switch in later grades. [/quote]

I'm OP and just wanted to clarify that I am not the PP who suggested they might sublet to get in-bound for a desirable school (though I did mentally give that idea a +1... :-D ). TBH, we would be happy with any school that looks (based on test scores and other factors) like it generally serves kids who look like my kid well, not just a DCI feeder... but the only three schools I have been able to identify that do that are schools (1)-(3) on my list. Two of them happen to be DCI feeders. We are not interested in some of the other DCI feeders (e.g., either MV campus) because they do not serve kids who look like my kid as well. We aren't even interested in LAMB for more than a few years because their faculty has diversity issues. Basically, I'm FAR from DCI or bust... I'm "my kids needs to attend a school where they will not be presumed to be low-skilled or less competent than their peers because of racism." It really, really sucks that that's such a tall order in DC in 2024, but it remains the truth nonetheless. [To anyone who wants to try to try to "explain" to me that the huge performance gaps that many schools here are explained by socioeconomic factors... yes, SES plays a [i]huge[/i] role, but SES doesn't explain all of it... and I taught for long enough to see how racism works in schools, even when the teachers and administration are extremely well-meaning and concerned about it.]

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NP and if that’s what you are looking for I would strongly consider Whittier.  It is an amazing school that supports all students.[/quote]

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