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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I agree with the quality of teachers and staff, but what makes you think SWS will not attract the same OOB populations which graviate to Ludlow Taylor and Watkins?[/quote]

SWS will continue to attract mainly affluent Hill families, city-wide draw or no.  Much of the OOB population at LT and Watkins is comprised of lower-middle-class AA families with roots in these school communities.  They come from poorish swathes of Ward 6, or PG Country, with parents who grew up on the Hill using the addresses of elderly relatives who still live there to fudge IB registration.  The address cheating took off after Tommy Wells introduced near universal free PreS 3 and Prek 4 (means tested in MD and not offered to all) EotP.  These extended families have never been much interested in SWS and are really unlikely to flock there in the future.  LT in particular supports a culture of address cheating and provides a comfort zone for a large low-SES population (almost all AA teachers, large special needs program, free lunch for all) while SWS has never done so.

Only die hard Cluster parents (very liberal, mix of white and AA) tend to prefer Watkins over SWS.   This means that many, possibly most, new Peabody families will now try to lottery into SWS, hoping to stay until 5th.  Not great news for the LT IB crowd.

From what I've seen observed living in the LT District for nearly a decade, almost every IB LT family finds an appealing public school option after playing the lotteries for one to three years.  For a very few, the choice is to stay at LT, for most, it's a language immersion school like Yu Ying or Stokes, for others, a well-regarded charter like Two Rivers or Inpsired Teaching, or an OOB Hill option like Maury.

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