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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - not interested in playing any cards. We'll just take our chances with whatever transfer or lottery opportunities there are when the time comes.

We are not looking to go to Yorktown and I suspect my son's friends are also going to continue to play the lottery for schools. They are more likely to want to go to ArlTech or W-L for IB. [/quote]

Yea, well, after your son spends three years at WMS and virtually his entire class goes on to Yorktown you might end up with a kid who wants Yorktown.  Have you given that any thought??[/quote]

Of course. I just spent 6 years at an option school, where all the kids come from across the county and are either going to one of 6 other programs or going private. I feel pretty capable in explaining how that works.[/quote]

You had a good experience at Montessori or ATS and you think that it's normal to fish around for options and transfers because that's what you're used to. It's very much not the norm in Arlington, though. You're talking about a transfer to a neighborhood school where the dynamics are completely different because they are neighborhood based. Kids move from elementary to middle to high school in large cohorts. You clearly want WMS, though, so carry on. [/quote]

Yea I agree.  OP isn’t seeking advice she’s seeking affirmation.  I have to say:  this is the first time I’ve ever heard of anybody fighting for WMS come hell or high water.  How bizarre. [/quote]

I don't think all negative comments offered much hell or high water about it. Just sour-grapes and gatekeeping. It has been very insightful though. Do people actually base their entire decisions off of DCUM? 
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I was talking about OP herself.  She clearly already had her mind made up come hell or high water and doesn't care that most responses from posters with experience have suggested it's not worth it practically, academically, or socially.  Clearly she's zero'd in on the higher test scores and little else, with no appreciation for how they're entirely attributed to the demographics.  [b]Heck, she doesn't even care that after three years at WMS her kid might actually make new friends and want Yorktown.  She has him frozen in time with the same handful of friends he has now and the same high school aspirations that he has now.  Obviously her first kid![/b]

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Hi OP here - if we're being honest, perhaps I was seeking affirmation, or maybe a gut check? I did my research back when the lottery opened and did consciously decide to apply for every available option. I wrote off transfer and option schools when we didn't get in back in February. Our WMS number was pretty high, I thought, so there was no chance. I see the results now and the list did move. We were not as high as I thought and I see there are still plenty of people waiting behind us, so I know we aren't the only people who made choices.

I'd like to explore your fixation with not automatically going to YHS. You make some assumptions that feel like they may be based in personal experience and I'd seriously love to know the back story.

We sat our kids down and told them what we expect of them academically and that we would offer them as much input into their school choices as we could. My son wants to go to WMS. He understands that his friends may go to other schools for high school. He'll make different friends. We've already had friends of his leave the country and he's had friends he's grown away from. We could move. That's life. 
I hope you have raised your kids to be resilient. I sure hope mine will be.

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Shipping your kid all over the county for no real reason may build “resilience,” I guess.  So you got me there.  It’s still weird as hell though.  Let’s hope your kids don’t end up resenting you.   [/quote]

Wow so much emotion PP. OP said that her kid wants to go to Williamsburg because his friends are going there. Seems like a good enough reason to me. [/quote]

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