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If you don't understand the lottery, you might have found it confusing.  But what he said is what I have read on DCUM and elsewhere.  Put your true first choice first.  Don't try to game the system.  He didnt' say anything about admitting only kids whose parents put SWS first.  That is completely fabricated.[/quote]

I was also there and the guy did make it sound like parents who didn't put SWS first wouldn't get in, although that's not necessarily the case.  Easy to see how a lottery greenhorn may have arrived at that (erroneous) conclusion.  DCPS should do a much better job explaining how the lottery works to help parents strategize in settling on up to six choices.
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PPs are worked up about the way the lottery works, and what proximity preference may mean, because four of the six elementary schools on the North Hill don't appeal to most high-SES families after preschool.  LT loses almost all the high-SES kids by age 5.  Peabody, which is great, albeit on the large side, feeds into Watkins, which loses most high-SES families by age 7 or 8.  JO Wilson attract but a handful of high-SES for preschool, although the neighborhood is brimming with them, and none beyond.  It's really difficult to get into the Logan Montessori at age 3, and next to impossible after that.   Maury is the only solid option from preschool on up (probably, since great majority of upper middle-class families still leave before 5th).  North Hill parents want SWS from start to finish, period.  What they're really hot under the collar about are the bad odds of being admitted, however you slice it.

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