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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think part of what people overlook is that SWS, when it was an early-childhood-program ONLY, did have neighborhood preference.  I understand it was ONLY for PK4 and K, but to have it taken from a neighborhood school to a city-wide school FEELS to people on the Hill like something was taken for them.  To boot, the Hill hosts the only other city-wide DCPS at Logan Montessori.  It also seems unfair that the only two city-wide DCPS elementary schools are on the Hill.  So it feels like the Hill has the inconveniences of hosting these schools, but not the benefits.  I think to compare to charters is a bad analogy - they are not charter schools and never have been.  They have traditionally part of the neighborhood.[/quote]

SWS didn't offer any kind of proximity preference to those in the neighborhood of LT though, right?  It was just the cluster.  The issue is that with the exceptions of Brent and Maury, the schools on the Hill are all under-enrolled anyway, so much so that they're mostly filled up with OOB students.  That makes it a little more difficult to justify proximity preference.[/quote]

Correct.  But there are people outside of those within immediate proximity who think that SWS should have some sort of neighborhood preference.

Only the upper grades at quality programs are under-enrolled or filled iwth OOB kids, and that's because we have no viable middle school option.  There's a chicken-and-egg issue but I don't think it's fair to intimate that SWS should be city-wide because there aren't enough Hill kids to fill it.  [/quote]

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