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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mom of a rising PK3er here, and we faced a similar choice when looking to move 5 years ago. We chose Brookland on the idea that there are plenty of charters around that feed into DCI, and you'll likely get into one of them. Alternatively, Bunker Hill is a great elementary school and you can figure out middle school later. Now, after we got a terrible lottery number and didn't land a single charter, I wish I had looked more carefully at Middle/High pyramids and moved to the suburbs to start with.

This is just me, but I dislike a ton of uncertainty, and for me, hate that I'll have to navigate the lottery for the next few years and then deal with uncertainty again at middle school. My kid (as much as you can tell at this early age) doesn't deal well with lots of change and transitions, and I worry that moving her at PK4/K, and then seeing friends peel off in 4th and then again in 5th will be hard. For me and my family, I'd rather her be with the same/mostly the same group from K through 12. I'm sure others feel differently, but I wish I had thought about this more when TTC and understood how I'd feel when considering yanking my kid around.

I love Brookland, love the families we've met and everything about the neighborhood. But the lottery sucks and even if you "win," there is still a lot of volatility/uncertainty involved that just isn't for me. [/quote]

I'm one of the posters who posted upthread that you should move to suburbs or try to live IB for the J-R pyramid even if it means living in a condo or renting. I wish this post right here could be pinned to the top of the DC Public school forum and you had to read it. I'm much further in with DCPS (year 7 for us) and it's still exactly how I feel. And I know I'm not alone because literally every year, a family or three or five that we know makes a big change to try and get their kids into better schools. Lottery move. Move across town. Move to suburbs. Move to Chicago. Private. I cannot emphasize enough what it's like to be in a system where everyone (including you, often) is always angling for a better situation.

Like this PP, I too crave a situation where everyone just sends their kids to the zoned K-12, warts and all. We are presently looking for job opportunities in another state to facility that move because the thought of doing this all the way through middle school and into high school just kills me. I'm not dying to leave DC and sometimes I get pretty emotional about it, but then I think about all the collective emotion we've been through with the schools here. I just don't know that it's worth staying.[/quote]

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