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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's so interesting about this debate is that in truth we are talking about just a few slots in elementary school.  There are so many sibling slots already, very few people will get into the early grades without a sibling preference.  But in reading arguments on both sides is clear that the real problem is that there are too few spaces on the Hill for high quality education.  And when you get beyond the elementary level, there are just none.

For those of us who like living on the Hill it is distressing to think that the best public school option is Stuart Hobson, which has a number of major problems and is still closed to graduates from Brent, Tyler, Maury, and likely SWS.  And the DCPS treatment of SWS (moving it out of the Cluster with really poor communication, changing it from a neighborhood school to a citywide school) is distressing.  If it can't figure this out, I'm very worried about middle school and beyond.[/quote]

The REAL problem is that there are too few spaces in good schools, elementary and other, across the city.  [/quote]

DCPS is not as clueless as it appears to be -- if you consider that the gaol is to turn the whole system to charter - including neighborhood charters, as per the mayors recent speech on continuing the "revolution" in DC schools.

Could be they are making life difficult for engaged parents now so that any easing up in the future will make people grateful -- even if it means turning neighborhood schools (which aren't serving the neighborhoods anyhow) into charters.

Perhaps the only way to alter this fate is if DC gov saw a trend of young High SES parents actually leaving the city, or if these Hill parents put up an active fight to have good access to their neighborhood schools.[/quote]

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