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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is Not NYC people. There is not way you can compare. In every other part of the country, you move, you go to new school. Period![/quote]

But this is not every other part of the country.  This is a small city with HUGE income disparity - tiny pockets of concentrated wealth where people don't use the public schools and exponentially more pockets of concentrated poverty where the public schools couldn't possibly close the achievement gap without a middle class pulling them up.

A middle class is what's creating rising EOTP schools.  That's a need that's particular to DC, and we're right on the edge of it changing it for the better. Churn doesn't help that.[/quote]

[b]Ha, so spreading their families across the city is the best way to support neighborhood schools?[/b] You can't claim to have the [i]school's[/i] best interest at heart when you a) don't care enough to live nearby and b) don't care if class sizes become unsustainable because people game the system by renting IB for a year or faking the address.

If you can't get back into the school OOB, it's because there are plenty of IB families moving in. And guess what? Middle class families are the ones buying up all those houses. Yes, you and your child have probably been an asset to the school. But don't pretend that they're not going to be fine without you.

I get that you think your circumstances (shopping close but not quite IB) warrant an exception. But the fact is that principal discretion has been applied very haphazardly and there ARE people who want to game the system.[/quote]

Spreading families across the city supports a SYSTEM of neighborhood schools. Concentrating families WOTP is asking for imbalance.

Personally, we attend an EOTP school OOB because we didn't lottery into our EOTP IB school last year. When it came time to reenroll this year, I did so without a second thought because DD loves her school. It's still walking distance from our house and we are still generally in the neighborhood as the school we attend. I love our neighborhood and have no immediate plans to move, but it is nice to know that if we do move, DD can still go to the school that she loves because we were already OOB.[/quote]

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