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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mom of a rising PK3er here, and we faced a similar choice when looking to move 5 years ago. We chose Brookland on the idea that there are plenty of charters around that feed into DCI, and you'll likely get into one of them. Alternatively, Bunker Hill is a great elementary school and you can figure out middle school later. Now, after we got a terrible lottery number and didn't land a single charter, I wish I had looked more carefully at Middle/High pyramids and moved to the suburbs to start with.

This is just me, but I dislike a ton of uncertainty, and for me, hate that I'll have to navigate the lottery for the next few years and then deal with uncertainty again at middle school. My kid (as much as you can tell at this early age) doesn't deal well with lots of change and transitions, and I worry that moving her at PK4/K, and then seeing friends peel off in 4th and then again in 5th will be hard. For me and my family, I'd rather her be with the same/mostly the same group from K through 12. I'm sure others feel differently, but I wish I had thought about this more when TTC and understood how I'd feel when considering yanking my kid around.

I love Brookland, love the families we've met and everything about the neighborhood. But the lottery sucks and even if you "win," there is still a lot of volatility/uncertainty involved that just isn't for me. [/quote]

I hate uncertainty too, but our friends in MoCo (who bought houses long ago) are no better off with boundary madness happening there and I've only seen headlines about Northern Virginia's similar issues. The only thing that insulates you is wealth to pick up and move at a moment's notice or paying for a private school. [/quote]

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