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[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]

PP here. No. That would be our “safety” option and there’s no need to involve the other two if we ended up there. JOW and Thompson consistently clear their waitlists for 5th grade.

I would potentially move the whole family to ITDS though. Or even potentially a Deal feeder. That’s where the advantage comes in. [/quote]

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