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Anonymous wrote:PK3 (in Anacostia and not thrilled with our IB choice even though it is getting better)

Two Rivers at Young
SWS
Stokes- East
Van Ness
Stokes
Tyler

I get that you aren't thrilled with your IB, but please make sure you are up for the commute to these schools. I am at one of them (we live close, thankfully, but we ranked our preferences based on proximity) and get really annoyed at the parents who complain about the commute.

Anonymous wrote:Hi Swami! Here's our list, though not 100% sure about the order. Am listing a few past our IB school as not 100% sure DD will get in.

1. LAMB

1. DC Bilingual
2. Stokes
3. Lee Montessori
4. Inspired Teaching
5. Powell (in-bounds)
6. EL Haynes
7. Shining Stars

Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:Lotterying for 1st and pk4:

SWS
Brent
Maury
Mundo Verde
Cap Hill Mont
Ludlow Taylor

We are at a HRCS.

This list is crazy. I like SWS a lot, but what's the point of Brent and Maury? If you have younger kids they'll never get a spot. Seems like you just want to tell yourself you got a chance to turn those schools down to stay at your HRCS.

Anonymous wrote:Lotterying for 1st and pk4:

SWS
Brent
Maury
Mundo Verde
Cap Hill Mont
Ludlow Taylor

We are at a HRCS.

Anonymous wrote:PK 4:

DC Bilingual PCS
Creative Minds International PCS
Powell Elementary School (Dual Language) OOB
Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS
E.W. Stokes – Brookland (Spanish Language Program)
Lee Montessori PCS
Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS
Breakthrough Montessori PCS
Washington Yu Ying PCS

Anonymous wrote:Can swami start a new thread for swami-ing? We have gone way off course.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in ward 3. Since there are no inbound schools for prek 3, I figure I'd have a better shot at Charter schools.
How do you rank:
Creative Minds International
AppleTree PCS- Columbia Heights
E.L. Haynes
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom
Washington Yu Ying
Breakthrough Montessori
Meridian Public Charter School

Is there any point in applying to DCPS (see below) out of bounds?
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Powell Elementary School
Ross Elementary School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens


If your goal is to pull your kid for PK4 or K and send to your IB, I would not go with the bilingual schools. You get all the hardship of a miserable commute and what is often a tough adjustment to the new language without any ultimate benefit of fluency.

Also, I'll say this - if you're the Ward 3 family that's trying to use my Ward 1 and 4 schools to park your kids through to K and aren't interested in the school community, find somewhere else. Too much work already trying to build community without families who are intentionally transient.

You’ll get into Appletree and you won’t piss people off by parking your kid there for only 1-2 years.

I'm sorry. All DC residents have equal rights to enter the lottery and put down choices that reflect their family situation. That means that Ward 3 families can lottery in for PK3 (and increasingly PK4 since those are being crowded out of overpacked schools) and then bail. You might not like it, but that is life. Ward 3 folks would love to have PK3 and to have enough PK4 slots. And no we are not all rich enough that sending our children to private school for 2 more years is a trivial choice.

+1. And people outside of Ward 3 have the right to apply for OOB slots at Wilson feeder schools and stay.

It goes both ways folks.

I am PP and I fully agree!!

Dude, you moved into Upper Upper for the privileges, and then want what I get because most of my neighbors are poor. Awesome.

Not sure what Dude did, but I moved from Columbia Heights to Upper Upper because the only home I could afford to buy was in Upper Upper. And you,PP, you bought and stayed in Lower Lower because you wanted your home to appreciate.

Unless you inherited a family home or your relatives would only help you with a downpayment if you bought in a specific neighborhood, there is no way that can be true. You could somehow buy a house in upper NW but not in Woodridge or Hillcrest or Congress Heights or Brookland or Hill East?

The PP said "home." You assume a SF house. Could well be an apartment or duplex.

You cannot honestly believe that the cheapest condo, apartment, duplex, yurt, whatever in DC is in upper NW. There are 2br condos EOTR for under $75,000. I get that there are lots of reasons why someone might choose Cathedral Heights over Congress Heights. The market certainly reflects that. But it is just not factual to say that someone can only afford to live in Upper NW. That's like saying the only food I can afford is steak.

Why would I move away from Nw? I might as well move to Virginia or MD. It was the cheapest condo in NW. Looked at all zips there.

I'm sorry this thread has been highjacked by this stupid debate. But I am continuing it. This is some serious BS. Let me find you a cheaper condo elsewhere in NW. Almost anywhere else, maybe EXCEPT CH.

NP. I agree that it is hard to believe that the only house PP could afford was WOTP. But it is equally disingenuous to pretend that everyone who buys EOTP does so because they couldn't afford to buy WOTP. They wouldn't be able to afford the *same quality of house* there, but many of them could buy *something* there if they wanted. We bought a small fixer upper WOTP in 2009 that even back then was cheaper than some places we looked at in Mt. Pleasant and Capitol Hill. Even today, there are houses (and certainly condos) WOTP that are cheaper than many properties EOTP. There are tons of people with very high incomes EOTP, higher than that of some families WOTP. So to say that we don't deserve to lottery for PK3/4 because we are all rich and free PK is for the poor and those who choose to live near the poor is not only wrong but also very hypocritical.

Not a three bedroom. I wold have taken any crappy three bedroom in nw. condos fine. There was nothing around 600,000. There was in NE

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in ward 3. Since there are no inbound schools for prek 3, I figure I'd have a better shot at Charter schools.
How do you rank:
Creative Minds International
AppleTree PCS- Columbia Heights
E.L. Haynes
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom
Washington Yu Ying
Breakthrough Montessori
Meridian Public Charter School

Is there any point in applying to DCPS (see below) out of bounds?
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Powell Elementary School
Ross Elementary School
School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens


If your goal is to pull your kid for PK4 or K and send to your IB, I would not go with the bilingual schools. You get all the hardship of a miserable commute and what is often a tough adjustment to the new language without any ultimate benefit of fluency.

Also, I'll say this - if you're the Ward 3 family that's trying to use my Ward 1 and 4 schools to park your kids through to K and aren't interested in the school community, find somewhere else. Too much work already trying to build community without families who are intentionally transient.

You’ll get into Appletree and you won’t piss people off by parking your kid there for only 1-2 years.

I'm sorry. All DC residents have equal rights to enter the lottery and put down choices that reflect their family situation. That means that Ward 3 families can lottery in for PK3 (and increasingly PK4 since those are being crowded out of overpacked schools) and then bail. You might not like it, but that is life. Ward 3 folks would love to have PK3 and to have enough PK4 slots. And no we are not all rich enough that sending our children to private school for 2 more years is a trivial choice.

+1. And people outside of Ward 3 have the right to apply for OOB slots at Wilson feeder schools and stay.

It goes both ways folks.

I am PP and I fully agree!!

Dude, you moved into Upper Upper for the privileges, and then want what I get because most of my neighbors are poor. Awesome.

Not sure what Dude did, but I moved from Columbia Heights to Upper Upper because the only home I could afford to buy was in Upper Upper. And you,PP, you bought and stayed in Lower Lower because you wanted your home to appreciate.

Unless you inherited a family home or your relatives would only help you with a downpayment if you bought in a specific neighborhood, there is no way that can be true. You could somehow buy a house in upper NW but not in Woodridge or Hillcrest or Congress Heights or Brookland or Hill East?

The PP said "home." You assume a SF house. Could well be an apartment or duplex.

You cannot honestly believe that the cheapest condo, apartment, duplex, yurt, whatever in DC is in upper NW. There are 2br condos EOTR for under $75,000. I get that there are lots of reasons why someone might choose Cathedral Heights over Congress Heights. The market certainly reflects that. But it is just not factual to say that someone can only afford to live in Upper NW. That's like saying the only food I can afford is steak.

Why would I move away from Nw? I might as well move to Virginia or MD. It was the cheapest condo in NW. Looked at all zips there.

I'm sorry this thread has been highjacked by this stupid debate. But I am continuing it. This is some serious BS. Let me find you a cheaper condo elsewhere in NW. Almost anywhere else, maybe EXCEPT CH.

NP. I agree that it is hard to believe that the only house PP could afford was WOTP. But it is equally disingenuous to pretend that everyone who buys EOTP does so because they couldn't afford to buy WOTP. They wouldn't be able to afford the *same quality of house* there, but many of them could buy *something* there if they wanted. We bought a small fixer upper WOTP in 2009 that even back then was cheaper than some places we looked at in Mt. Pleasant and Capitol Hill. Even today, there are houses (and certainly condos) WOTP that are cheaper than many properties EOTP. There are tons of people with very high incomes EOTP, higher than that of some families WOTP. So to say that we don't deserve to lottery for PK3/4 because we are all rich and free PK is for the poor and those who choose to live near the poor is not only wrong but also very hypocritical.