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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tons of young families are moving into our safe and quiet EOTP neighborhood, and now send their kids to our IB, Shepherd.  In fact, there was a double-digit waitlist of IB kids for the two PK3 classes this year.  IB and OOB families (including many from Petworth) seem to coexist peacefully; there's not a big divide like there seems to be at some other schools.  There's a great community feel overall within the school.

The schools and neighborhoods are not all the Wild West EOTP. ;)[/quote]

No one denies that there are waitlists for most of the NW schools EOTP for the preK programs.  There are, however, no waitlists for K and beyond. [b]Because everyone leaves then.[/b]  Several years of heavy waitlists at all these schools in PK have not translated in any interest in staying for K in any of these schools.  Sorry that you are still in the "my kids are 1 and 3 and i totally plan to stay here forever, even if i don't get into a charter school" phase.  [/quote]

This is actually not true for Shepherd.  As someone with a kid in 1st grade, I know that the vast majority of my kid's classmates last year at Shepherd stayed on for 1st.  There were a couple who left for private or a charter, but most plan to stay all the way through.  We also have neighbors with kids in upper grades. Remember that Shepherd feeds to Deal, and parents are pretty happy overall, so there is less attrition perhaps than at some other EOTP schools.[/quote]

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