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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So now there are 60 fewer kids at their OOB neighborhood schools.  How are those schools supposed to stay open if kids jump ship every chance they get?  No wonder Coolidge, Roosevelt, Cardozo, etc... are under enrolled.  And no wonder the charter movement is gaining ground every year.  There is zero incentive to make those schools better, because all the effort is to maximize ways to shuttle kids to the few WOTP schools that are "desirable."[/quote]

You must be new here too. There is an entire system in place called the lottery. Thousands try to get into schools which are not their IB schools. WOTP schools are not the only schools which participate in the lottery. In fact, the case majority of seats in the lottery are NOT for WOTP schools.

And welcome to you too! [/quote]

Thanks for the welcome, but I'm not new.  And, yes, I know about the lottery system, but I appreciate the lesson.

The lottery may be designed to increase choice, or to fairly distribute limited open slots in popular schools.  But much of the effect is to pull kids from unpopular schools into overcrowded ones.  Most of DCUM is devoted to parents complaining and worrying about how to lottery out of their IB school and into some other school, and more often than not, that means a Deal/Wilson feeder, if not some charter.  What I'm asking is, if there is a lottery to get out of all these IB schools, and it's clear that schools like Murch (or wherever else people are dying to go to) will have upwards of 60 slots from time to time, what's the incentive for DCPS to fix those schools people want to lottery OUT of? I'd be pretty upset if I were one of those people who tried to lottery out, but didn't get a slot, because you just know that DCPS isn't going to do anything.

60 slots is a really big number for an already overcrowded school.  20 is one thing, but 60 looks over the top to me - like someone is trying to make a point.[/quote]

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