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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are an ECE squatting family (i.e. planning to return to our IB school for K), and I don't feel guilty at all. The classes we were in weren't full either year, and while we would have been even more active at a school that was closer to our house (or if we hadn't had younger siblings), I have been the room parent for our class both years and have been the one the teachers turn to when they need something done for the class. We have also donated quite a bit of time, supplies, and money to the school as well as gotten involved in advocating for a number of improvements to the school. We've been good citizens, and I don't think the school is worse off for our having been there.

One other aspect that hasn't been brought up is that some schools have a pyramid classroom structure with a lot more ECE classrooms than upper grade classrooms. They basically use OOB kids to fill up the school and bring in money. Whether this is good or bad for the school overall, I can't say. But our current school is structured to have 60 or so PK3 kids, 50 or so PK4 kids, and 40 or so K kids.[/quote]

It is great that you're contributing a lot more than the other squatters, but who is going to take your place as room parent next year? Other than Garrison-which only retains about 1 in kid in 10 for K -  I think the lower NW schools have eliminated the ECE 'mushroom' structure.[/quote]

Goddammit, there's no pleasing you people. If she hadn't been there the past two years, no one would have been doing the AT ALL.  People like that deserve a medal.  Who's going to do the job after her kids graduate? She shouldn't be so selfish and stop then, right?  Who's going to do the job after she dies?  Only a real asshole would die when there is room parenting to do.[/quote]

LOL, well said, my thoughts exactly. I would be very grateful for the above "squatter" to stay even one year, in any school.

I was the PP above questioning what schools in "lower NW" could be at issue here. Seems I am in the minority on the neighborhood naming question, so fine, I'll drop that debate. I mostly just wanted to know which school or schools we were really talking about here.

So it sounds like we may be talking about Marie Reed? I had no idea that it was so easy to get in OOB to the dual language program, which is the program that I assume Oyster parents would want. Someone posted WL numbers in another thread and MR was among the longest WLs. So there is some disconnect here. Maybe a lot of Oyster parents had proximity preference under the old lottery rules? If so, won't they lose that now, because they are not far enough from Oyster under the new rule? Someone can correct me. Plus, maybe MR was easier to get into before. The WL is so long now that this problem is unlikely to continue.

Or maybe we are talking about other schools... because it was not OP who mentioned Oyster, if I recall. OP mentioned JKLM parents. I'm still not clear on where those parents are currently "squatting" in ECE in large numbers. The ones I know are at downtown daycares and other private options prior to PK4 or K. Argument by anecdote, you may say, but I don't know a single Janney/Key/Lafayette/Mann parent who started their kid at an EOTP DCPS school for ECE except those that moved from the EOTP neighborhood to the WOTP neighborhood part way through ES, and I do know some of those.

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