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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]

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

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]

Actually, if you know the history of SWS you would know that their preference typically put OOB siblings above IB children.  They didn't even use the boundaries they did have.  Only when they were included in the lottery system did that change.  Just a few years ago (early 2000s) IB children didn't get spaces because they would do OOB siblings first.  It seems they have gone back to their roots of being a city-wide draw and not having to follow boundary rules. [/quote]

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