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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or they could stop fearing brown children and send their kids to Leckie.[/quote]

This is really short sighted. We Have two children at Leckie and it isn’t the kids, it’s everything else that makes us want to move them next year. I won’t go into detail but it’s not good at all. And just like any other family, we have the right to try the lottery for an OOB spot. [/quote]

I don't understand why military families get some special preferences, they are barely DC residents for even a few years and yet we are bending over backwards to help families who will move on a in a couple of years and have no vested interest in the District.   I do have a friend with kids at Leckie and the miliary families are the only diversity at the school. Her kids PK class had several white middle class kids and a few asian american kids.  but by K they all moved on.    when our city needs more options for all kids, this is absurd to cater to this one group.  [/quote]

What special preferences do they get? [/quote]

I'm pretty sure they can enroll at any DCPS school they want. While many go to Stoddert, there are many at other schools too.[/quote]

No. They can enroll at any DCPS neighborhood school if there are seats available / no wait list. They can enter the lottery from another city and have more time to establish residency, but of course they don’t always know they will be coming to DC when the lottery opens. If there is a wait list they have to go to their IB or the back of the WL like anyone else who moves to the city midyear. [/quote]

The “no waitlist” part is not correct though.  Otherwise how would so many military kids end up at Brent, where there are long wait lists?  I’m not objecting to the policy.  But there is definitely a method by which they can jump to the top of the OOB waitlist at certain schools. [/quote]

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