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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading this thread is interesting because I can see both sides of every issue. I'm a lottery veteran (this will be our 5th year) and have seen it work well and also seen it screw people over. It's a tough system, but probably more fair than the old system where there were no charters or all city schools at all and going to a school outside our IB was nearly impossible.

But really the whole conversation just makes me very tired, and the more angry and defensive people get in these conversations, the more tired I get. We recently made the decision to move before our kid hits high school, and making that decision definitively has been such a relief. To just be done with this whole mess.

That's ultimately my biggest complaint about public school in DC. Not the lottery or sibling preference or "boundary fraud" or whatever. It's that the entire system is just exhausting and it never stops -- from PK to high school, there's some level of angst over your kids education and whether you've made the right choices with regards to the lottery, where you live, DCPS v. Charter, etc. It's draining. Right now we're looking at neighborhood outside DC and looking at high schools and the idea of just moving into a school district and then submitting enrollment paperwork and that's the end of it is so amazing.[/quote]

This is the reality for most families, but another side of that reality is that if your assigned school isn’t working for your kid…that’s it. You deal with it. There is some freedom in having the opportunity to try another school if you’re in that situation. [/quote]

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