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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have given the sibling preference a lot of thought.  My view is that it is necessary in situations where a school is citywide (ie SWS, CHML) in order to reduce traffic and create efficiencies.  It is not fair for PK lotteries for IB neighborhood schools. Each kid who is IB should have an equal shot regardless of sibling status.  [/quote]

So you want to create another incentive for families to forgo their neighborhood school and opt for a citywide or charter where they do get a sibling guarantee? This would be far worse than the status quo.[/quote]

It boggles my mind that sibling preference is even a question on this thread. As a parent, having to drop your kids off at multiple schools is a huge inconvenience. (just visit the 100s of comments on the Maury/Miner potential merger, and those schools are only a few blocks apart). Step outside of your own world for a second and see the system as a whole, and there is no question. For the sake of the families, for less cars having to trek across town to different schools, for continuity in school communities, sibling preference should never be a question.[/quote]

There's a really easy solution for that mind-boggling problem: Parents who don't want to drop kids off at multiple schools can send their kids to their in-bound DCPS schools and then they wouldn't have to worry about that. Oh, would it not be fair that families with many children would then basically have to go to their less-desirable IB schools instead of doing the lottery? It's funny how it's easy for you to presume that's a fine solution for the families that don't get sibling preference so that it doesn't inconvenience yours.

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You missed the part where the PP is replying to the PP who was suggesting no sibling preference for IB DCPS PK. ONLY sibling preference for citywide schools. So basically the opposite of your "easy solution." Thanks for reading though.[/quote]

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