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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't flee. There is no need to flee. If you want to stay in DC, then stay in DC and figure it out like lots of other people do. Or, move to Montgomery County (or wherever) because you want to do that. And if you do move to Montgomery County, you do not have to move to Bethesda or Potomac.[/quote]

What you are missing here is that there are very few reasonable middle school or high school options that are acceptable if you live in NE DC. So for many there, moving out of the city IS the only viable option to “figuring it out”. Where we lived our in bound high school was Dunbar. Beautiful building but serious problems for most of the kids who attend, very high truancy, teenage pregnancy, extremely low test scores. It was not an option I was comfortable with for good reason. There are also few charter options and they are all lottery. OP is asking the right questions to “figure it out”. [/quote]

True but we know lots of people who did Walls or Latin or Basis instead of schools like Dunbar. And it certainly doesn’t mean you need to move when your kids are little—DCPS has very strong ECE programs and many schools are strong into the ES years. -DP[/quote]

Oh you know lots of people who won a literal lottery. Great for them! But for many others it is more desirable to put down roots where your kid can stay through HS (not to mention better public college options). Moving in MS if you don’t win a lottery is far from simple. [/quote]

Or you stay in DC until it doesn't work, and then you move. But if you keep playing the lottery, most people I know were able to find something they liked. I certainly wouldn't "flee" to MCPS when my kids hadn't even tried the lottery for several years.[/quote]

Most people eventually find something like for elementary. There are few choices for middle and high school with moving to certain parts of DC. [/quote]

If you are willing to have your kid do Basis, most people get an offer. And I know people who strategically lotteries into ES with good feeder patterns even though they were happy with their home elementary schools in order to lock in solid middle and high school choices. The point is, it's not suburbs or bust, and the overall life you lead in DC is pretty different from the overall life you lead in Montgomery County. Personally, I would rather be in DC, even though we did haul ourselves out here ten years ago in part because we needed more space. [/quote]

Wrong. Waitlist goes into the 100s. And many people don’t prefer Basis to a normal school experience.

Nobody is denying that some people stay but most people don’t. [/quote]

It sounds like you need to move to the burbs if you haven't already. But there are lots of people who make it work in DC. And having a waitlist does not mean that you don't get a spot. [/quote]

True you might get that spot a couple years from now.[/quote]

This is an ES parent perspective. For MS and HS waiting “a couple years” doesn’t work. And the charter MS options are still not great (TR, ITS). [/quote]

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