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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School choice because if you lived in VA or MoCo your school would have been decided for you - at kindergarten, earliest - based on your address. At least you have a *chance* for something other than your address-based school. Some win, some don't. [/quote]

OP here: Frankly we'd be okay going to school with our neighbors (middle class, working and poor), but the most motivated of them leave for charters, leaving us with one choice: an Struggling IB that people like me leave ASAP. [/quote]

I agree that it sucks. It frustrates me that we have created a system where you can live in a neighborhood filled with motivated parents and children, but the IB school sucks because those people are spread out to a bunch of non-neighborhood schools, and some people are shut out of those other options and are stuck with the crap IB school that would be good if those other options didn't exist. [/quote]

+1000

Signed, 
Happy at our under-the-radar IB DCPS[/quote]

You can say good-bye to all the families you met at the neighborhood park, 'cause almost every single one of those kids is going to disperse to charters or OOB DCPS opportunities by K.  It's a great way for politicians to disperse and political muscle a school might get if it had a strong neighborhood following.

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