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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would definitely move rather than sacrifice a single year of my child's schooling by knowingly sending her to a failing school where the dysfunction is entrenched. Elementary years are too few and fleeting to waste a moment on a social experiment. [/quote]

So basically this means that 90% of the families in Columbia Heights, Petworth, etc. with children age 4 and younger are just going to have to move or invest thousands of dollars in private school?  Rather than just working together as a community, with hundreds of families that are in the exact same boat, to improve the school that is right down the block?  That is going to be quite an exodus.  Who do you think is going to buy all your houses?[/quote]

There's some truth in this.  If a class has 30 students, and 10 or 15 are children of middle class families who are a new development in Wards 1 and 4, that's a game-changer.

[b]What schools should do is have [i]POST-lottery[/i] open houses that are really easy for interested parents to get to.  [/b]

Like 12pm on a Saturday or something really accessible.

So that they can see others in a similar boat who are interested in possibly getting into that DCPS school, so they don't just have to think the worst and act on that because they don't have any information beyond "FARMS percentages" and 3rd grade test scores.[/quote]

There's logic there, but there's also logic that says that you kind of need to see the school in action, during the week, when there are kids there, to get an accurate feel for how it operates. [/quote]

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