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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Op, I am confused. Are you asserting that the unprepared K kids result from IB students who don't get into ECE at their neighborhood schools? If they applied- they would beat out the OB kids, right? So the problem is that folks IB for your school don't want ECE. Your beef is not with OOB folks- but with your IB population. [/quote]

This is exactly right.  The OOB kids don't get in unless there are available slots after all the IB kids are placed.  What OP really is arguing for is that her school's PS and PK classes remain under-enrolled rather that be filled with kids who are IB at JKLM.  Which is, of course, ridiculous.  She's also claiming that the presence is these children results in underprepared IB kindergarteners.  Equally ridiculous. 
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Yes, OP, what schools are you talking about anyway? And which is the school with 25 percent Oyster IB at PK?

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I wonder this, too. Maybe Francis-Stevens?[/quote]

Bumping my question because I still don't see an answer. FS and Marie Reed are decent guesses but I would be surprised, because they are both popular with WLs, are they not? Certainly MR has a long WL. I thought FS did too. Also it's unusual to refer to Adams Morgan as "lower NW".

I am at an EOTP school and yes, I have seen JKLM/Oyster parents at our open houses hoping to use our school for PK3 or even PK4. I have never resented them for trying. We all gotta do what we gotta do in this city. We have so many IB on the WL that the JKLM/O applicants don't have a snowflake's chance, so it's academic anyway.

So OP or anyone else, can you tell us which are these schools that are simultaneously so attractive to JKLM/O that they choose it over private preschool, yet have a lot of space for OOB, so much space that one of them is even one quarter full of Oyster IB?

I am not saying I don't believe it but I am still scratching my head as to which schools fit this description. It must be schools that have very small geographic boundaries or small number of public school kids relative to PK class sizes? Which are these schools in lower NW? I know that Hearst fits this description in upper NW.

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Lower NW comprises the Cardozo Feeder schools for the most part from Tubman and Bruce Monroe in the north to Marie Reed in the West across to Marie Reed, Garrison, Seaton, Cleveland and Thompson.  I don't think Ross or FS with their long WLs have lots of upper NW squatters at them for PK.[/quote]

You are responding to my question. Really?? I have never heard this area referred to as "lower NW", on DCUM or anywhere. It's usually "EOTP" on DCUM, and if you are going as far east as Seaton and Cleveland in Shaw/Le Droit/Bloomingdale, then that's usually referred to as center city or near NW. If "lower NW" means anything, it would more logically refer to Georgetown.

Anyway OP has posted again since my question was repeated, and still hasn't answered, so he or she is obviously more interested in stirring the pot than having a real conversation about this.

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