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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, I think they should take away sibling preference if you're OOB in the lottery. It honestly isn't fair for others.

OOB is a privilege, not a right. I don't think that privilege should transfer from one kid to the rest in the family. OOB is tough. It means sacrifice, but that's what you chose to do when you didn't go to your IB school.

I think it would do a lot to help improve other schools in the DCPS system if the OOB sibling preference was removed.[/quote]

The point of sibling preference is to keep siblings together to create a school community, and to prevent parents from having to do multiple dropoffs.  IB kids get preference over OOB siblings, unless you are in a language immersion school, so why should an IB person care who gets the OOB spots?  Your school will have a much better community if those spots go to the siblings of the OOB kids curretly in school with your child.

If you are an OOB applicant, any school that you realistically have a chance of getting into will be one of those that take a lot of OOB applicants.  Those school communities are only cohesive and desirable if OOB parents can focus their energies on one school.  I know that to be true at Hearst for example.   Lots of very involved OOB parents with more than one kid at that school.  [/quote]

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