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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should go to the best school for your child. Many private daycare options are likely not as strong as Hearst or Eaton. DCPS has far more educated teachers. I say stay in the neighborhood and spend a year at Hearst or Eaton it is an easier commute. A lottery is a lottery, it is all about luck. If you are lucky enough to get in why not go?

Isn't the ultimate goal to have more Ward 3 Kids at Hearst any way, sounds like a win-win.[/quote]

The ultimate goal is to have engaged and committed families at Hearst.  We have that now from both IB and OOB families, but the families that come for PK4 and then leave generally don't fall into that category.  They are, of course, entitled to enter the lottery and come.  If they come, we hope they will contribute to the life of the school and we will welcome them.  And we hope they will decide to stay.  But let's not pretend that the churn is not disruptive to the school.

If Janney and other nearby schools solve their overcrowding problem by shrinking PK4 at their schools, I do feel that reassessing their IB families' access to PK4 elsewhere in the city is in order.  Especially since they fought the boundary changes so hard.  They should live with the consequences of their efforts.[/quote]

So you're advocating that AU park residents be prohibited from attending a school where 4 out of every 5 students are out of bounds.  But you want to specifically redline just the Janney OOB families and allow in the other 82% of kids who live out of bounds.

Do I have that right?

How about we instead let janney IB kids attend hearst for a year .... but force them to wear a big letter or symbol sewed onto the front of their shirts so everyone will know their status?   That's worked well in history and in Fiction. [/quote]

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