Anonymous wrote:I’ll believe it when I see it.

But this is a good sign for DCPS and where it is headed.

+1 , Bowser knows how to get a headline. Notice that she said likely, which means when she back tracks and sends her child to parochial school, she’ll be able to say, “I never said definitely. Likely means that I considered the option but I’ve decided to explore the best option for my family.”

Mark this section of the thread for future reference when families are disappointed she made a different choice.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I want her to have friends in the neighborhood and I want her to be close to home"

Shepherd is only 53% in-boundary. I guess she'll have a few friends in the neighborhood.

The school has been trending upward in IB % for several years. I had a kid in Shepherd PK3 ~5 years ago, and even then it was all IB. Back then, the overall school was only something like 32% IB.

I have kids at Shepherd in the upper grades. The OOB kids don’t live far away. It’s a great little school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t she belong to St Anthony’s Catholic Church,
where they have a school?

And?

Not always, but Catholics typically send their child to the school of their parish.

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t she belong to St Anthony’s Catholic Church,
where they have a school?

And?

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t she belong to St Anthony’s Catholic Church,
where they have a school?

They have a nice school but it's not in her neighborhood. It doesn't particularly stand out academically so I don't know if it's better than Shepherd ES.

Doesn’t she belong to St Anthony’s Catholic Church,
where they have a school?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I want her to have friends in the neighborhood and I want her to be close to home"

Shepherd is only 53% in-boundary. I guess she'll have a few friends in the neighborhood.

The school has been trending upward in IB % for several years. I had a kid in Shepherd PK3 ~5 years ago, and even then it was all IB. Back then, the overall school was only something like 32% IB.

+1. SH/CV is a relatively small geographical area. 190 neighborhood kids attending the school is still a lot. Shepherd is still very much has a neighborhood feel. OOB families contribute to the community and are part of what makes the school pretty great IMO. It will likely be 70% in 2 years as it has been increasing almost 10% every year. Shepherd will likely always have a large chunk of OOB. There are quite a Jewish families that opt to attend Shepherd and then move to Milton in later years which opens up their spots in the lottery.

Anonymous wrote:"I want her to have friends in the neighborhood and I want her to be close to home"

Shepherd is only 53% in-boundary. I guess she'll have a few friends in the neighborhood.

The school has been trending upward in IB % for several years. I had a kid in Shepherd PK3 ~5 years ago, and even then it was all IB. Back then, the overall school was only something like 32% IB.

"I want her to have friends in the neighborhood and I want her to be close to home"

Shepherd is only 53% in-boundary. I guess she'll have a few friends in the neighborhood.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

But this is a good sign for DCPS and where it is headed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is her daughter even two? Who cares?

+1

I think quite a few people who post here will care. Especially with a new boundary discussion scheduled for 2022 and Shepherd potentially being a targeted for a new feeder pattern.

It's a pretty obvious question to ask the mayor who is attending her first PCSB meeting as a mayor. And many here speculated that she would choose a private school.

Her daughter will eligible for PK3 in fall 2021.

Anonymous wrote:Is her daughter even two? Who cares?

+1

Is her daughter even two? Who cares?

There has been some speculation about this and, while "likely" leaves some wiggle room, this seems pretty definitive: