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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]8:50 spells out the argument well.

Basicallh they are saying please don't take up our OOB spots if you dont want to commit long term. Leave those for families who really want to stay at the school.

I've never been at a DCPS but it's pretty clear to me. [/quote]

This exactly. Join a school for the long term, not because you are only staying one year and will not join the community. This is a completely rational request. If you don't understand it then you don't understand what it takes to build s stable school community.[/quote]

This is one of the reasons that we are paying for private this year (PK3) instead of sending our kid to the DCPS ECE OOB where we lotteried in. It seemed kind of wrong to take a spot in a school where we 100% knew we wouldn't stay past PK4. [/quote]

Devil's advocate here.

First of all, my OOB child is every bit as entitled as someone else's OOB child to attend a school with seats left over after the IB families have been accommodated. If my kid is in that seat it's not because we're special, but because we won the lottery. There is no secret weight given to Ward 3 families in the common lottery just because we're more likely to front the $250 PTA dues than an equally OOB family in Ward 7. And there's no guarantee that ANY oob family that lotteries into School X this year won't try to lottery into a better school next year.

Second, and relatedly, is it really evident that a family whose "underprepared kindergartener" takes a seat vacated by my Ward 3 kid is more (or less) likely to commit to the school and invest in the culture?  Or put more simply, aren't you just projecting your discontent onto high SES families for abandoning your kid to a cohort of undesirables? [/quote]

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