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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]L-T families have only lost what they never had. The real losers are the Cluster families who thought they were going to have preference for SWS and now won't.[/quote]

This.  I bought into the Cluster 3 years ago hoping to eventually send my kid to SWS, and now I'm totally screwed.  This is BS.  Too bad Cluster parents just can't get it together.  Imagine if DCPS tried to make Brent into a city-wide school.  The moaning would never end.[/quote]

Me too.  But the current Cluster parents DID get together.  They are the ones who screwed us.  They didn't want to send their kids to Watkins, so they lobbied to expand SWS to higher grades.  Note that they also got to keep sibling preference.  They didn't care (much) about the boundaries because they're all in.

The people who did not successfully get together are the *future* SWS/Cluster parents.  Like you and me.[/quote]

First of all, the current Cluster and SWS are not the same thing, and even when they shared a building and feeder they were separate entities.   In the initial SWS expansion there was a one time allowance for movement between Peabody and SWS -- families moved both ways on that front.

There's an outsider and an insider perspective to this.  Some families may feel left out, but they are probably not aware taht SWS was close to being shuttered outright by DCPS within the past 2 1/2 years.   IB or otherwise , it wouldn't even exist as a future option for your infants and toddlers if that threat was realized.  It had to move/expand or cease to exist.  DCPS made the call on boundaries, not the school.[/quote]

I am aware that current SWS parents say they were fearful of being closed.  Do I think DCPS would have actually closed this high-performing, highly-successful program? Not a chance in hell.  I noticed you didn't acknowledge the reality that SWS parents were looking for a way out of Watkins.  They got it.  Well done.  Those of us who bought in the Cluster bounds with the specific goal of attending SWS were the casualty here.  [/quote]

Why would you buy a house based on a potential two years of early childhood education? I get buying to get into the Cluster, but SWS was never a huge part of that. And FWIW, when SWS exited the cluster, more kids moved from SWS to Peabody than vice versa. SWS was never everyone's preference for EC, even within the Cluster.

Also, it's not like pre-k or k slots were lost in the move--Peabody added slots to fill the SWS space. I totally agree that the move last year was pretty ill-planned and ill-communicated, mostly because it was so sudden. But it was actually executed pretty well. And as an SWS parent, I can assure you that most parents at the meeting with DCPS were very vocal about wanting to keep it a neighborhood school. It just didn't make sense for DCPS to do so.[/quote]

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