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[quote=Anonymous]Here's a thought I'd only ever share here, but it goes in this thread:

I sometimes feel very resentful of UMC parents in DC who lottery into very desirable schools when they could afford to either move IB for a good school or send their kids to private. We aren't wealthy and have no choice but public, and can barely afford to live IB for a mediocre DCPS. We've also struck out on the lottery every single year.

I get why people do it -- everyone wants what is best for their kid and if what's best is free, all the better.

But the upshot is that we subsidize things like language immersion, IB programs, Montessori, and other desirable things for kids whose parents have the means to pay for this stuff on their own, while many many MC and poor families are stuck at mediocre or failing public schools. It's a weird fly in the ointment of DC's supposed commitment to "equity". I know some charters are trying to fix this by offering spots to low income families exclusively, but this doesn't help a family like ours that can't afford a quality IB school or private, but is not poor enough to qualify for a designated spot at a charter.

When we meet wealthy people whose kids attend schools like Stokes or LAMB, I privately think to myself how messed up it is that I am helping pay for their kids to learn to speak Spanish or French and get a priority feed to DCI, while my own kid attends a struggling elementary school with a horrible MS/HS feed. Especially because I know if they had not won the lottery, they would absolutely be sending their kids to private school -- they'd never send their child to my school. It just feels weird.[/quote]

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