Home Visits for New Jackson-Reed kids?

[Anonymous]

My daughter is enrolling in 9th grade at J-R coming from a charter school. We got an email saying that all new J-R students must have home visits to prove residency. Is that true?

[Anonymous]

Do you actually live IB? Do you have a meth lab in your house? What's the big deal?

[Anonymous]

One issue/question is that it sounds like you won’t be considered enrolled until they do the home visit. Does that mean incoming students won’t be able to register for classes and sign up for academies if they are interested?

[Anonymous]

This is definitely not true for all new students to JR. But it might be true for students coming from outside DCPS. Considering how many people go to charters because they don’t like their IB options, maybe the charter-to-JR path has a disproportionate number of people trying to skirt boundary/residency rules?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is definitely not true for all new students to JR. But it might be true for students coming from outside DCPS. Considering how many people go to charters because they don’t like their IB options, maybe the charter-to-JR path has a disproportionate number of people trying to skirt boundary/residency rules?

We were told we have to do a home visit - we are coming from private school, but DC has a sibling in DCPS ES now (which is IB for JRHS) and her re-enrollment has been accepted. So doesn’t make any real sense.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like DC is starting to crack down on boundary fraud. Good for them. It’s about time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is definitely not true for all new students to JR. But it might be true for students coming from outside DCPS. Considering how many people go to charters because they don’t like their IB options, maybe the charter-to-JR path has a disproportionate number of people trying to skirt boundary/residency rules?

We were told we have to do a home visit - we are coming from private school, but DC has a sibling in DCPS ES now (which is IB for JRHS) and her re-enrollment has been accepted. So doesn’t make any real sense.

So sounds like it’s as I said—they are spot-checking kids coming from outside the system. Agree that it’s not a great use of their time if they see (as they should from the forms) that there’s a sibling at the same address enrolled at a feeder school. But I guess it might take more time to call the other school and confirm that the sibling kid has been enrolled there etc than to just do the visit.

Anyway, shouldn’t be a big deal.

[Anonymous]

If you are in bounds, your child has a legal right to attend the school. You can say ok to the visit, but that you do not plan to ensure that you or anyone else is home. They can visit, but they cannot compel you to actually be home when they visit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are in bounds, your child has a legal right to attend the school. You can say ok to the visit, but that you do not plan to ensure that you or anyone else is home. They can visit, but they cannot compel you to actually be home when they visit

Why would you do this? Such a bizarre response

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are in bounds, your child has a legal right to attend the school. You can say ok to the visit, but that you do not plan to ensure that you or anyone else is home. They can visit, but they cannot compel you to actually be home when they visit

Under this theory, no one would ever have to prove that they live where they say they do.

If you don’t show up for the visit, and DCPS doesn’t believe you live there, they can refuse to process the kid’s enrollment.

[Anonymous]

Like others have said, I think it's just for people who haven't come from a feeder school. We live in bounds and are coming from Deal. Haven't heard anything about a home visit.

When we transferred from our charter to Murch, they "lost" our paperwork several times and required us to keep bringing updated leases and vehicle registrations.

[Anonymous]

I was able to register without a home visit. Feeding from Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are in bounds, your child has a legal right to attend the school. You can say ok to the visit, but that you do not plan to ensure that you or anyone else is home. They can visit, but they cannot compel you to actually be home when they visit

You seem not so good with the logic my friend. You have a right to attend your IB school. You also have to prove residency in order to be designated IB. Not sure why this is so hard for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you actually live IB? Do you have a meth lab in your house? What's the big deal?

OP didn't say it was a big deal. Just asked if it's correct. IME, DCPS has only done this in the past for athletes. So, def a reasonable question.

[Anonymous]

OP here. We do live in bounds. We don't mind having a home visit except I worry she'll be held up from registering for classes and such - especially since we haven't heard from the home-visit-team after two weeks.

I also wanted to fact-check what they said about visiting all new students. My guess is they really mean all students who are new to DCPS.