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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Community tensions" because some in boundary families got shut out of preschool? It's hard to be sympathetic about that considering it's a lottery. That neighborhood's three-year-olds don't need it, either. [/quote]

Special circumstances intervened, in case you missed it.  Not only were 30 in-boundary families shut out of preschool by the 2013 lottery, they were shut out automatically a second time when Brent didn't open any PreK spots for them.  The LSAT helped make these decisions.  If you think that excluding 40% of families in one cohort before K bodes well for school community cohesiveness, and fund-raising for that matter, tell us what logic you're following.

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My logic: the parents of this 40% just dropped a crapload of money to buy IB, so they aren't going anywhere fast.  They also paid an arm and leg for the ability to talk about "community cohesiveness" and to brag about their PTA's abilities, especially with regards to every other school on the Hill, and probably in all of DC.  Excluding them in a lottery is not really a big deal.[/quote]

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