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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just here to say, OP, that you have a legitimate beef (though I agree, there isn’t a better way to do this for practical/logistical reasons).

We’ve got three and are sticking out our somewhat on the bubble DCPS elementary school hoping for enough small improvements to stay through 4th (feeder middle is a non starter) and part of what makes that manageable is that if we did decide we needed to move to a different elementary, we’d have essentially three lottery numbers in one year to pull us to somewhere else - especially since our standards are not crazy high, that’s basically a guarantee.

Same with middle schools - we’ll lottery hard when my oldest is going into fifth. Now sure, we still essentially only have the same shot at BASIS. And worst case, we end up at like Thomson to feed into SWW@FS or JOW to feed into SH. But we can put ITDS and a bunch of Deal feeders on there too and have three bites at the apple. It’s definitely an advantage and gives us more flexibility. [/quote]

But would you really move your younger kids to JOW or Thomson for multiple years just to guarantee a middle school spot for your older kid? I'm in a similar-ish situation and while I might enroll my older kid in 5th for the feed, I don't think I'd move my younger kid from our closer/somewhat better IB. So older kid would have to get in sans sibling preference anyway.[/quote]

But people can still play both kids, and the younger kid can theoretically get the older kid in and then not attend. I know of situations where this happened (and they kept the younger kid in the IB elementary.)

The accepting school doesn't care. I know bc I had the inverse happen -- my 5th grader got my 2nd grader into an excellent school, but then we opted to send only the 2nd grader. I explained the entire situation to the accepting school (principal and admin) and they were truly open to taking both kids or either.

Siblings are definitely a huge advantage in elementary school.[/quote]

Theoretically, no, that's not how it works.

"Please note that at most schools, this preference is meant to allow siblings to attend the same school at the same time. If the sibling who was offered a space at the school does not enroll at that school or later enrolls at another school, the 'sibling offered' preference may be removed for all siblings that applied to that same school. This may result in the siblings losing their match, or moving down on the waitlist at that school."

Maybe in practice that's how it sometimes works at some schools, but I wouldn't build a lottery strategy based on it.[/quote]

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