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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][quote=Anonymous]hobson and JA are both at this point vast majority students from the designated feeder schools - it does appear that slowly and surely more and more students from those schools are attending each year[/quote]

Uh … this is because those feeder schools empty out after 4th grade and are back-filled with OOB students. The # of kids from feeder schools is a meaningless number because people leave after 4th for charters. But I’m sure you know that and are just being an intentionally obtuse booster. [/quote]

We just got an email today from Watkins inviting us to enroll for 5th (apparently they get emails from MySchoolDC and spam parents) because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade.  [/quote]

I have no dog in this race but this is just a lazy take. You assume that that they are trying to fill seats "[i]because they’re hemorrhaging students from 4th grade[/i]" but even a cursory look at the WL data tells you that you are jumping to conclusions. They opened up 8 seats in the lottery and as of lottery day they had only one person on the WL for 5th grade. As of June 1 there were zero kids on the WL. If even two of those 8 lottery seats offered was declined then there wouldn't have had to be a single additional unexpected student leaving after 4th for the school to still need to fill open seats.

Serious question for PP: What is it about your makeup that motivates you to post things like this? What urge or need are you satisfying by just imagining negativity?  [/quote]

And as kids are getting spots at BASIS, Latin and Latin II, they are leaving Watkins.

I feel like you think it’s normal to have to fill more than one or two spots in a school. It’s not normal.  [b]Northwest schools do not have this problem.[/b] Because they’re not hemorrhaging students. [/quote]

To give you an idea, last year, the five JKLMM schools COMBINED took three children for 5th grade by count day. [/quote]

And your point is ...? I don't believe anyone here said that W6 is the same as NW.  Keep your focus - the point is that some familes are trying the W6 MSs and this appears to be increasing in number.  And, when I did the math, I was pleasantly surprised that Jefferson in fact WOULD have a strong cohort for my kid (as long as I'm not hung up on him being a different race from them ... )[/quote]

No family IB for Watkins, Brent, Maury, etc. is trying their IB middle school voluntarily. They are, to a person, doing it because they struck out in the lottery. My point is, that COULD be fixed, by changing the feeder pattern and creating a Deal-like middle school, where people would actually WANT to send their kids, not just be somewhere people were willing to “try” when the got a crap lottery pull. [/quote]

Oh please. The families enrolling have better options. I myself just turned down TR and ITS spots because I’d rather give Eliot-Hine a spot. Maybe they’d like to send their kid to Latin, or Sidwell, or the moon … but that doesn’t really say anything about the quality of IB schools. [/quote]

We all know that ITS and TR are just as shitty as EH. If you lotteried into Latin or BASIS, you would be headed there. [/quote]

+100. TR is a complete shitshow 
—long time TR parent fleeing after 4th grade[/quote]

Where are you going?[/quote]

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