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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It can be hard to predict who will stay. It depends on people's lottery luck, but also their jobs, their family needs (like, aging parents), their finances, and how things go for their specific child. I've seen the most invested become disillusioned, and I've seen skeptics won over-- it goes both ways. If you only want people who can and are willing to make a very firm commitment, well, that's not actually enough people. [/quote]

People also need to be able to move if their child is really having a bad experience. I've seen kids in upper grades in Title 1 DCPS schools suffer from really scary bullying, educational neglect in the classroom -- it's insane to say parents have to keep their kids in that situation because this demographics -obsessed mom is making them sign a contract or something.[/quote]

Thank you. We moved our kid because it felt irresponsible not to. I didn't enjoy doing it and sometimes miss our old school. But the upper grade experience was very different than the PK-2nd experience. I didn't want to look back years later and think "why didn't we just change schools? especially when the lottery was an option? just because we were worried people like OP would judge us?" It's not a good reason.[/quote]

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