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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The charter/DCPS dynamic is not too hard to understand.  When offered choice, most parents are going to choose the school that will best serve their family.

WOTP, if you are looking for free education, you go to your local IB.  The wide view is that the IB DCPS options are much stronger than any of the charters.  This goes for ES, MS, and HS.  Most WOTP parents are blissfully unaware of how the lottery even works.  We live WOTP and I know of exactly two families who send their kids to charters.

EOTP, if you are IB for Brent, Maury, and increasingly LT, you go to your IB.   The families at JO and Watkins are mixed.  Everyone else tries for charters and goes IB only if they strike out in the lottery and would rather try their IB than move.  Why is that?  Because the charters provide a better education.

It is not because EOTP families are more dedicated to immersion or any of the other specialized things that charters sometimes offer.  It is also not because the charters are more convenient to Hill families than they are to NW families.  It is simply because their IB options are not as strong.

The situation has little to do with charter schools (except that they provided a bandaid to HIll families with poor IB options who wanted to stay in their houses.).  it has everything to do with DCPS.  Very few families would choose a far-flung charter with a strong neighborhood school down the street and the situation WOTP illustrates that well.  [/quote]

Why do people go straight to CH when talking about EOTP? There is a lot of area EOTP before you even get to CH. Many schools that have high IB rates too.[/quote]

I read "CH" as Columbia Heights.  I was so, so lost about this comment until I realized you meant Cap Hill.  [/quote]

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