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This describes my family's experience as well. Thank you so much for posting. The whole fallacy around "winning the lottery" to get into a "superior" charter school is utter garbage. When we decided to send our daughter to our IB EOTP school, [b]I could not believe the responses we got from "friends" in DC who were appalled that we were not ranking charter schools above our IB DCPS option[/b]. We visited all the charter schools that are considered "superior" on DCUM and you know what? Our IB EOTP school checked far more boxes for our family than any of them. It's not only a commitment to our community that keeps us in our IB DCPS school, it's also the fact that it's the best school for my daughter. If more parents would actually visit these schools and give them an equal shot against their biased and misled assumptions about charter schools or WOTP DCPS, I'm willing to bet they'd come to the same conclusion.  [/quote]

Yes - we got this too!  A lot of times, it's a Tier 2 charter school that's no better than (and sometimes worse than) our EOTP DCPS.  All I can do is nod and say "congrats - I hope it's a great fit for your child".[/quote]

PP who the +1 was directed at here. I got the same commentary several years in a row. It came from one of three sources: parents who moved to the suburbs when they had children, parents whose children are 10+ years old who lotteried WOTP, and parents of 3 year olds who had no actual experience with the schools they were trashing and mostly had not even stepped foot inside them.

Those conversations were exhausting.[/quote]

One of the issues is while some schools can be great in the PK years, because of the lottery you can show up the next year and a large majority of the parents and kids you became used to have left your school.  Suddenly the school becomes a very different place.[/quote]

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