If the DME goes forward with 10% set asides, will this be a common outcome?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that they could just say that your spot there is contingent on your living in boundary for the school you got the spot through. Similar to having to continue to live in-boundary to keep an in-boundary spot today.

And whose job would it be to track compliance?

Th school you go to, which verifies residency. Just like they do now for IB students. If your residency verification is with a new address, then you don't keep the spot.

Do they actually do a residency verification every year for every kid? If you have a home visit in PK3 do they come back in PK4 and make sure you still live there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that they could just say that your spot there is contingent on your living in boundary for the school you got the spot through. Similar to having to continue to live in-boundary to keep an in-boundary spot today.

And whose job would it be to track compliance?

Th school you go to, which verifies residency. Just like they do now for IB students. If your residency verification is with a new address, then you don't keep the spot.

Do they actually do a residency verification every year for every kid? If you have a home visit in PK3 do they come back in PK4 and make sure you still live there?

Yes. You have to verify residency every year. The purpose of home visits is not to verify your address....you can have your "home" visit anywhere.

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That kind of gaming the system goes on right now: rent an apartment in Tenleytown, get IB for Janney or Murch which feed to Deal and Wilson, then buy a nice property in a gentrifying neighborhood with lower costs. Once you are in the feeder system you are in. This is the problem with OOB set asides: OOB does not necessarily equal "lower income" or AA. DME Abigail Smith is white and well paid and lives in a re-done place near Howard U that most DCPS families can't afford (many of the people who used to live in that neighborhood can't afford it any more either): but her child could get a spot at Wilson as an OOB set-aside. This is why those who think this school assignment reform will promote "access" and "equality" are being fooled. Gentrification will price more and more poor people out of more and more parts of DC.