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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][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]

ITS is not a shit show.  It's more like a school that is pretty good if you like small schools and wokeness and don't mind having no high school plan.  It isn't disorganized or sloppy, and a lot of the teachers are quite good.[/quote]

This. We really like ITS. And I think the HS plan is why Latin and BASIS get thrown around as "better" than any of the other MSs listed in this thread. The aren't actually better. They are different but every school mentioned (SH/EH/JA/ITS/I can't speak to TR but probably TR) has pluses and minuses and plenty of happy families and kids who do great there. Every one of them. Latin and BASIS have that too, but especially with BASIS, there are also miserable families who hate it. There are families who struggle with the commute or just aren't getting what they want out of the school.

BUT Latin and BASIS have HS options.

That's it. That's the whole thing. It's about HS. Eastern is the issue. And yes, I am aware that Eastern won't improve if families don't invest in the MS feeds. But it's a chicken or the egg issue. Our kid is still 5 years off from HS, but based on how things stand right now, Eastern is off the table for us. And also for many other families. This really isn't about MS.[/quote]

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