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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of you who are trying to compare this situation to charters or other citywide schools are off-base.  This is the first time that DCPS has taken away the neighborhood status of a school and made it citywide.  There's no reason that giving SWS neighborhood preference would create some sort of precedent.  This school has already been treated differently than every other school in the city.

As a Hill resident, [b]I think it's unfair that one of our good options was essentially removed from our neighborhood[/b].  You may choose not to cry for Hill school options, but there's ample evidence (see: wait lists at Maury, Peabody, Brent) that the neighborhood is still short of good preschool and elementary school options.  There's no good reason that SWS should have been removed as a neighborhood school.  Yes, there are other areas of the city that underserved.  But making the 12 open seats in preschool citywide really isn't going to solve that problem.[/quote]

Somebody call the WAHMBULANCE.  [b]Peabody INCREASED its capacity with SWS gone. So you haven't lost total number of seats at good schools.[/b] [/quote]

Exactly.

Could someone refresh my memory what happened with seats at Watkins?[/quote]

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