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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]One of those reasons: JKLM (and Stoddert) parents squatting in EOTP schools until they get by-right entry to K. Let's just stop that.

Oh, you just stop that. You know full well that Ward 3 parents are a tiny fraction of the churn. The vast majority are EOTP parents who play the lottery again and again until they get into one of the few highly regarded schools, and if not, they move. Very few plan on staying at their IB school beyond PreK, unless it happens to be one of the few desirable ones.[/quote]

For one, we can afford to actually pay for one of our many excellent neighborhood nursery schools.  I can't think of a single household in which the parents said, You know what?   Let's drive from 39th and Fessenden over to Woodridge every day, twice a day, and then back to our jobs at Farragut North so we can save the $10K we'd spend on PS3.[/quote]

We've certainly seen a ton at SWW Francis-Stevens. They make up at least 1/4 of the PK cohorts.[/quote]

Well, good for them. I live in Petworth but I'd like to defend he WOtP families. They get he least public service for their education tax dollars. Those schools don't even offer PS3 and some of them offer P4 that only serves a small portion of the IB need. Stoddert, because of space limitations, offers one PK class hat doesn't even accommodate all the siblings of existing students. On average there are 60-80 IB kids who apply for aPK spot each year. So if they look elsewhere for a tax-funded spot I for one cannot blame them. The churn is a problem the city created, not the families. [/quote]

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