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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in ward 3. Since there are no inbound schools for prek 3, I figure I'd have a better shot at Charter schools.
How do you rank:
Creative Minds International
AppleTree PCS- Columbia Heights
E.L. Haynes
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom
Washington Yu Ying
Breakthrough Montessori
Meridian Public Charter School

Is there any point in applying to DCPS (see below) out of bounds?
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Powell Elementary School 
Ross Elementary School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens

If your goal is to pull your kid for PK4 or K and send to your IB, I would not go with the bilingual schools. You get all the hardship of a miserable commute and what is often a tough adjustment to the new language without any ultimate benefit of fluency.  [/quote]

Also, I'll say this - if you're the Ward 3 family that's trying to use my Ward 1 and 4 schools to park your kids through to K and aren't interested in the school community, find somewhere else.  Too much work already trying to build community without families who are intentionally transient.[/quote]

You’ll get into Appletree and you won’t piss people off by parking your kid there for only 1-2 years.[/quote]

I'm sorry.  All DC residents have equal rights to enter the lottery and put down choices that reflect their family situation.  That means that Ward 3 families can lottery in for PK3 (and increasingly PK4 since those are being crowded out of overpacked schools) and then bail.  You might not like it, but that is life.  Ward 3 folks would love to have PK3 and to have enough PK4 slots.  And no we are not all rich enough that sending our children to private school for 2 more years is a trivial choice.[/quote]

This. Also, I've got news for the unwelcoming PP: If you are at one of the DCPS where it's actually still possible to get in OOB, most of the UMC families in PK will also be "intentionally transient" because they will think the school might be fine for ECE but then do their best to lottery out of there for more long-term prospects, or move. So there is no real difference between them and a family from WOTP. And charters are city-wide, so you don't get special rights to them just because you live closer and have no other options.[/quote]

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