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[quote=Anonymous]People who said they got in "nowhere" evidently didn't take a chance on schools like Cooke and Tubman and Garrison, all of which (whom?) continued to take kids up through the October deadline.  From my experience, you take the spot at the "substandard" local ES for PS/PK level, then you play the lottery.  You get a few years of stress-free dropoffs (since the local school is walking distance).  If you don't get in anywhere "OK," you keep playing.  Perhaps you fall in love with your local ES; perhaps you skip out when you get in somewhere else.  All I can say is, people who walk in with an "all or nothing" attitude as PS are fooling themselves.

When do you move?  At 2nd / 3rd grade all the WOTP parents start wondering if little Larla is going to lose out if they don't go to Sidwell, so suddenly slots start to open and you can get in.  If you don't get in anywhere by 2nd grade, THEN you can start to plan your move to MoCo, having banked all that $$$ you saved on privates up to that point.

What's been interesting to me is watching people leave some of the HRCSs in 2nd or 3rd grade to go to WOTP elementaries.  Is the bloom off the rose by that time?  [/quote]

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