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[quote=Anonymous]Although many took offense to the OP’s choice of words — the question that he/she posed is still valid.  
The comments here are angry and depressing — basically claiming that you cannot turn these schools around and chastising the OP for wanting to get involved. 
As a family that has lived in DC for 15 years (and is very interested in staying in the city) we are now entering the lottery and are realizing that our best/probably only chance to get into a PK3 program is our IB school — which has a lot of uphill climbing to do. We were in a much stronger school district, but were redistricted out of that school.  So we have been trying to focus on how we (and yes, the obvious changing demographic of this neighborhood) can get involved and make a difference at our new IB school.  We can either try our best to make it better, sit around and do nothing letting our kid’s education suffer, or move.
So can all of these new parents make a better school or are we just going to continue the same pattern of moving out of the city?
With the large number of new parents interested in staying in the city beyond age 3, I would hope that there is the opportunity for lots of these schools to improve.[/quote]

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