Moving OOB

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the posters who say you can't go are wrong. I'd think if you begin at PK4 and get in through the lottery, you're fine to stay, just as many of those families who got in through the lottery are already OOB. But if you start at K as your by-right-school, of course you can't stay.

Yes, if you get in through the OOB lottery you are fine.

[Anonymous]

So IB kids who start in PK have more right than IB kids who start in K? Why would that be?

[Anonymous]

More evidence that this whole system is nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So IB kids who start in PK have more right than IB kids who start in K? Why would that be?

They are both in the same bucket-- the IB bucket. When you start is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

When was the last boundary change? We moved from NW ES to another in 2nd grade. The middle school and high school stayed the same. We just emailed the principal and were allowed to stay. Not sure if the middle and high school being the same made any difference to the principal. And also, moved only 2 blocks away though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So this is what is confusing me.

https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY17-18%20Enrollment%20and%20Lottery%20Handbook.pdf

(page 8): "If a family moves out of boundary during the school year, the student maintains the right to attend their current school through the terminal grade, and can continue to attend schools in the feeder pattern of the original school. They also have a right to attend their in-boundary school."

That certainly sounds like the kid gets to stay.

If this doesn't mean the kid gets to stay, can someone explain to me what else it could possibly mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So IB kids who start in PK have more right than IB kids who start in K? Why would that be?

They do not have more right. They start earlier. Any IB kindergartner can attend. For PK4, the only way* to enroll at a school is to be placed there through the lottery. In K, you can literally just show up with your paperwork and enroll. You might not start that very day, but you do not need to lottery in.

* some schools have guaranteed enrollment for PK4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So this is what is confusing me.

https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY17-18%20Enrollment%20and%20Lottery%20Handbook.pdf

(page 8): "If a family moves out of boundary during the school year, the student maintains the right to attend their current school through the terminal grade, and can continue to attend schools in the feeder pattern of the original school. They also have a right to attend their in-boundary school."

That certainly sounds like the kid gets to stay.

If this doesn't mean the kid gets to stay, can someone explain to me what else it could possibly mean?

That's new language. It wasn't in the handbook last year. It sounds to me like your interpretation is correct.

[Anonymous]

Oyster has also removed language about people who move from IB to OOB from its website.

It's silent on the issue now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So this is what is confusing me.

https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY17-18%20Enrollment%20and%20Lottery%20Handbook.pdf

(page 8): "If a family moves out of boundary during the school year, the student maintains the right to attend their current school through the terminal grade, and can continue to attend schools in the feeder pattern of the original school. They also have a right to attend their in-boundary school."

That certainly sounds like the kid gets to stay.

If this doesn't mean the kid gets to stay, can someone explain to me what else it could possibly mean?

That's new language. It wasn't in the handbook last year. It sounds to me like your interpretation is correct.

Sounds like it.

Wow. That is insane!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So this is what is confusing me.

https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY17-18%20Enrollment%20and%20Lottery%20Handbook.pdf

(page 8): "If a family moves out of boundary during the school year, the student maintains the right to attend their current school through the terminal grade, and can continue to attend schools in the feeder pattern of the original school. They also have a right to attend their in-boundary school."

That certainly sounds like the kid gets to stay.

If this doesn't mean the kid gets to stay, can someone explain to me what else it could possibly mean?

That's new language. It wasn't in the handbook last year. It sounds to me like your interpretation is correct.

Sounds like it.

Wow. That is insane!!!

It kind of is, right? The only residency verification the handbook talks about now is DC residency. Not in-boundary residency.

[Anonymous]

So... I should buy a studio IB for Murch and then cycle people through who want to establish residency that covers them through HS. Great work DCPS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So... I should buy a studio IB for Murch and then cycle people through who want to establish residency that covers them through HS. Great work DCPS!

OSSE is tightening the definition of residence to explicitly state that it must be where your child sleeps a majority of the time. That's been a loophole that allowed for people who own multiple properties to claim residence at one they didn't actually reside at.

How/whether it will be enforced is a whole other matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So... I should buy a studio IB for Murch and then cycle people through who want to establish residency that covers them through HS. Great work DCPS!

OSSE is tightening the definition of residence to explicitly state that it must be where your child sleeps a majority of the time. That's been a loophole that allowed for people who own multiple properties to claim residence at one they didn't actually reside at.

How/whether it will be enforced is a whole other matter.

So all you have to do is live with your PK4 or K kid in a studio for a year, and then you can move anywhere in the District you want for the next 12 or 13 years and have rights to Wilson. Sweet! I could handle 10 months of being cramped and even if it's $25,000 over the course of that year, it's way cheaper than private school a decade down the road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So... I should buy a studio IB for Murch and then cycle people through who want to establish residency that covers them through HS. Great work DCPS!

OSSE is tightening the definition of residence to explicitly state that it must be where your child sleeps a majority of the time. That's been a loophole that allowed for people who own multiple properties to claim residence at one they didn't actually reside at.

How/whether it will be enforced is a whole other matter.

So all you have to do is live with your PK4 or K kid in a studio for a year, and then you can move anywhere in the District you want for the next 12 or 13 years and have rights to Wilson. Sweet! I could handle 10 months of being cramped and even if it's $25,000 over the course of that year, it's way cheaper than private school a decade down the road.

Apparently so. Unless they change this new policy or perhaps, the boundaries.