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I did attend that meeting, and there was NO clear consensus on parent preference for a city wide option, only interest in a permanent landing spot at the then prospective, now officially closing Prospect Learning Center.  The principal clearly stated that the details still need to be worked out, and a lot of it lies in DCPS hands.[/quote]

I also attended.  While there wasn't a clear concensus and parent priority was obviously to pin down the Prospect Learning Center location, parent preference clearly leaned toward a city-wide option.  What the Stanton Park neighborhood parents might need to get to grips with is that since, historically, SWS has not primarily served their neighborhood it is unlikely to swing that way.  There are more Lincoln Park area parents than others, a group focused on ending the less-than-appealing Watkins feed.  Watkins has always lost most of its upper-middle-class parents between 1st and 5th and SWS, which a much lower percentage of FARMS kids and better leadership and teaching, is poised to avoid.  The troubles of the LT IB population are not high on the list of parent concerns.  SWS parents know that working with DCPS to carve out new ES boundaries on the Hill would be so complicated, time-consuming and politically messy that the city-wide feed is probably the only way to go, accusations that SWS has become a de facto charter in its PreS-5 incarnation notwithstanding.

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