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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shutting out the families of young children seems like a strategic mis-step.  These are people in the neighborhood for whom Bancroft would be the IB option.  If you actually want them to consider the school, then making them and their toddlers feel welcome in the tot lot would go along way.  It's not like Bancroft is highly desirable among the higher SES families within its boundaries.  Lock them out from the get-go and you are just increasing the odds they will never bother to cross the threshold later when looking at ES for their children.[/quote]
I think that is just not true. There have been plenty of posters on DCUM who are [b]desperate to get into Bancroft IB[/b], and annoyed that sibling preference trumps IB for language schools. Immersion and dual language schools are the hottest ticket in town, in case you haven't been paying attention. Nobody in their right mind (I realize that does eliminate a few) is going to pass up their IB school JUST because they couldn't use the tot lot until 6 pm.
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Really?  Why are there so many higher SES Mt. Pleasant families at charters?  Being IB for Bancroft and choosing Mundo Verde instead isn't exactly a vote of confidence.  Immersion schools seem to be popular when they're dual-language by design, as opposed to by default, and the test scores show it.[/quote]

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