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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dear DCPS, please keep adding more citywide lottery-based schools to the Ludlow-Taylor neighborhood, because we love salt in our wounds.[/quote]

It's interesting hearing the competing perspectives of the IB Cluster folks vs the IB LT folks.  IB Cluster families are losing their existing neighborhood preference for SWS, whereas IB LT families are being denied a neighbohorhood preference to not one but two better public schools inside its current neighborhood boundary (SWS and CH Montessori) and provided an inferior neighborhood option which is largely ignored by the IB community beyond PK.  DCPS just can't seem to get past the status quo of underserving its communities.  Yet they wonder why most of the Hill families flee DCPS by middle school.[/quote]

Yup. It's ridiculous.

My two cents -- and I'm a in-bounds Cluster parent with a kid who went to SWS -- is that SWS will move from the fabulous, high-SES community school it is today to a much less desirable city-wide program in relatively short order. SWS should continue to have some sort of neighborhood preference. [/quote]

PP here

You're entitled to your $.02, but I'm a current parent who disagrees.  It's not as affluent or exclusive as some make it out to be.  The heavy investment is family engagement, not $$.  Plus the move to Logan Annex preserved a core of families who value the program and aren't just buying time for other options.  The families who committed to a year in a temporary structure built it from practically nothing, and they're highly committed to the school.  Lots of younger siblings will join older SWS students over the next few year.

Aside from the quality of teachers and staff at SWS, Reggio is not everyone's cup of tea -- it's neither 'drill and grill' nor a rigid learning environment... SWS may have a more narrow appeal to some families than a citywide option would suggest.  Plus the convenience will make it more sought out by CH families than the full district.[/quote]

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