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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tons of young families are moving into our safe and quiet EOTP neighborhood, and now send their kids to our IB, Shepherd.  In fact, there was a double-digit waitlist of IB kids for the two PK3 classes this year.  IB and OOB families (including many from Petworth) seem to coexist peacefully; there's not a big divide like there seems to be at some other schools.  There's a great community feel overall within the school.

The schools and neighborhoods are not all the Wild West EOTP. ;)[/quote]

No one denies that there are waitlists for most of the NW schools EOTP for the preK programs.  There are, however, no waitlists for K and beyond. Because everyone leaves then.  Several years of heavy waitlists at all these schools in PK have not translated in any interest in staying for K in any of these schools.  Sorry that you are still in the "my kids are 1 and 3 and i totally plan to stay here forever, even if i don't get into a charter school" phase.  [/quote]

You're years out of date. Did you move to VA or WOTP 5 years ago?

Everyone doesn't leave for K and up. Not even all the higher SES parents, which is who I assume you are talking about.  Did you miss the folks chiming in with kids in elementary grades?  Get with the times.[/quote]

Actually, I just left 3 months ago (for another region in the country).  Of my DS's preschool class of 18 kids, exactly no one got a school through the lottery that they wanted to go to, and exactly no one stayed for their in bounds school. Everyone moved to the burbs or went private or left the region entirely.  Eighteen kids.  Who were all the kinds of families who loved being in the city, and would have stayed if they could have.  Granted, this preschool was not in bounds for shepherd.  Maybe that school is the exception. I'm not that familiar with it.  [/quote]

That seems like an unlikely story. Usually the preschool classes in neighborhoods like Petworth, despite all the gentrification, still have a lot of kids whose parents aren't in a position to move to seek out better schools or go private. So ALL 18 kids trying to lottery out and then bailing seems like an unrealistic scenario.[/quote]

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