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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would think very seriously about moving out of DC.  We struck out for both the 5th grade and 6th grade lotteries.  It sucks to have to uproot our family's life at this point.  Had I been able to see the future, I would prefer to move when my kids were your age so that we could keep building our roots in a community instead of starting over again.

Yes - things change every year on the school scene, but you now know how it feels to 'lose' the lottery two years in a row.  And I think the stakes are lower for elementary than middle/high school so whatever disapppointment, discontent, unhappiness you're feeling - imagine that magnified several times over if you again don't have lottery luck at middle school/high school time.[/quote]

Thanks for this perspective, PP. I worry about this a lot.

-NP[/quote]

Meh. We moved out of the city at the end of 5th grade because we didn't like our middle school options. I'm not at all sorry we stayed as long as we did; DC1's elementary school experience was great. And DC2's elementary experience in Arlington was great, too. And I have no doubt that DC1's middle and high school experiences were better than we could have gotten in DCPS.

In my experience, 5th graders in DCPS tend to scatter to the winds for middle school anyway (this would definitely have been the case for DC1), so we didn't feel like we were "uprooting" really. DC1 would have had to start over in a school knowing very few kids whether we stayed in DCPS or not.

We loved our city neighborhood, but we've loved our Arlington neighborhood, too. No regrets.[/quote]

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