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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have much to add, other than to say thank you for summarizing what is increasingly my sadness, as I hear from parent after parent at our solid but not highly-sought-after neighborhood PK3 of their intention to, next year, lottery out to a school with a more assured high school trajectory. Awesome parents, awesome kids, but the parents' involvement has been tempered by their awareness that they will not commit to the school long-term.

For our part, we have attended meetings on Ward 4 high school reform, and have committed ourselves to be part of the improvement process so that our child(ren) can be part of an engaged, zoned community through high school. But sometimes it feels like, "for what?" Because, strangely and unfortunately, I wonder if we'd have a better likelihood of continuity of kids and parents from one grade to the next, if we would revise our family's core value of "shopping local" (neighborhood school, neighborhood coffee shop, etc), and go somewhere more "desirable," within the bounds of other factors like a non-insane commute. In which case, I'd just want to get this over sooner than later, to "buy" us more years of building relationships among our child(ren)s' cohorts.

Important food for thought. Thank you for raising this point.[/quote]

You're putting too much emotion and not enough sense into this, and I find it annoying. Your choice of schools is not a referendum on your character or an expression of your "core value of shopping local" (wtf?). It is about finding the best school and neighborhood for your family. Nobody has any obligation to "commit" to a school zone. I find it laughably hypocritical that you have to turn yourself into so many knots to admit that your true core value is the best school you can find, not "shopping local." [/quote]

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