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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there's a sea change brewing among the next tier schools.  People are actively considering schools like Powell, for example, or Takoma, which had very few in-bounds, middle SES families for decades.  Now people are competing to place their 3 yr olds there.  Yes there will be peel-off at first, like when the first charters opened... people peeled off for new charters or WotP schools that had a solid reputation.  But some people stayed and made the school desirable.  Those same charters 10 yrs later have wait lists in the 800s.  The same thing will happen with these middle of the road schools in places like Capitol Hill, Petworth, Shaw.  It will be a combination of school choice pushing competition, gentrification, political pressure, parental expectations.

Unfortunately, the worst schools in the farthest neighborhoods will probably improve the least.

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I wouldn't call it a sea change, but there is definitely a positive trend in that direction.  I am hopefully that it will continue.  If you have a particular school in mind, talk it up with the parents in the preschools and try to get a core group to commit to staying at the school for later grades.[/quote]

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