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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SWS is a specialized program and should remain city-wide, to provide an equal chance of getting non-sibling spots.[/quote]

Do you have ANY reasoning for this?  It was a neighborhood school just a couple of years ago.  It's no more "specialized" than Brent, which is now "Reggio-influenced" in the early years.  It's the only DCPS school that was taken from a neighborhood school to a city-wide.  It's one of only two city-wide DCPS elementary schools, both of which are on the Hill.  If DCPS would consider a preference for Ward 6 or the Hill, I think that would be ideal.  [/quote]

Stop. The entire program changed. It went from a small supplemental early elementary program (not the ONLY program for IB children) to an entire school.  It was never a DCPS school, only a program.   That means the IB children still have a school in addition to SWS.  It wasn't taken from anyone. It was expanded. When programs change, attendance change. [/quote]

It went from a "program" with preference for kids in a defined neighborhood to a "program" with a city wide draw.

DCPS needs to decide what they are doing with it... is it a charter with a city-wide draw and no feeder pattern or a public school, in which case it should be both tied to a neighborhood (like every other DCPS) and have a feeder pattern to a middle school.  This neither-here-nor-there approach is not helpful to anyone.[/quote]

Need to make some corrections on errors of terminology here:

A). Charter Schools are not just schools without a neighborhood boundary. They have autonomy from central office in many important ways. Maybe pp is thinking of a magnet school?

B). Charter Schools are most definitely also public schools[/quote]

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