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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think your premise, about setting aside the "all the upper NW folks will leave town or go private" and the "if you lottery Deal or Wilson, they will cease to be desirable schools" arguments, is the real issue. I live in upperNW, cannot afford private for two kids (rented for 9 years until we could buy a small fixer upper, no biglaw partner here), and if there is a  citywide lottery we are going to move (unless we can get a spot at a good MS and HS charter, which I think at that point would be even more difficult). [b]there is no way I am going to drive my kids potentially across town, or let them go by themselves in middle school, when Deal and Wilson are three blocks away.[/b] tax me more if you need more money to promote better schools everywhere, but this type of solution would simply be nonsense and would drive us (and I think others) out. I am not sure what is left would make great DC shools.  [/quote]

Agree with this except for any implication that the problem is a lack of money.  It is not, the problem is an unwillingness to take any action that appears to be intended to intentionally create a significant majority of prepared kids in a well run middle school.  It appears too elitist if it does not happen by the happenstance of a pretty good school located in an UMC area of the city being turned into a desireable school (what happened at Deal).  Thy cannot creat a new middle fed by the successful ESs that do not currently feed Deal.[/quote]

Charter parent here.  Can't wait to have those would-be Deal kids at Latin or BASIS.

And add to this the sad fact that under this system, Deal and Wilson are likely to regress.  So even if you get a spot, you might not want to send them.

Sure am glad I didn't buy that house in Crestwood or Mt. Pleasant . . .

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We got outbid a couple of years ago on a fantastic house in Crestwood. 11' ceilings, 4k+ sq ft, etc. Our kids are going private, but we still dodged a bullet in terms of property value if it ends up no longer being IB for Deal and Wilson.[/quote]

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