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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not think McArthur will be a viable option.  Their numbers are dismal and there is hardly any buy in from IB families.

Plus the commute is horrendous.  Why deal with 45 minutes to 1 hour commute in rush hour traffic each way for a subpar school.

Are families that desperate to stay in the city? [/quote]

No, we've just seen how schools change and we might have more experience than you do.[/quote]

+1. There has been minimal IB buy-in thus far because families had dual feeder rights to JR, and very reasonably families chose the established, known pathway. That has ended and MacArthur is the only feeder for Hardy going forward. And frankly, OP has no good lottery options in upper elementary that will secure her family a feeder pathway through high school, if your only acceptable pathway is Deal-JR. Lotterying into a Hardy feeder still takes lottery luck, but it's better odds than lotterying into a Deal feeder. And if MacArthur still isn't an acceptable option to OP in 5 years, she's at least got a strong middle school pathway for her older child in two years.

Either way, Georgetown and Capitol Hill are apples and oranges. Time will tell, but a school with a solid middle school pathway is better for OP's individual situation this year than putting her fifth grader in an elementary school for one year, then having to lottery again for a new pathway next year. There are frankly NO options with good lottery odds for those grades, particularly if she wants to have one sibling pull the other in, but she can maximize her odds of "better than the IB middle school" by casting as wide of a net as possible this year.[/quote]

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