How are they going to enforce the sibling enrolled preference policy?

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Or parents make a lot of noise and pressure the DME's office to eliminate 'discretion' from the equation - at least for the first half of the schol year.

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Anonymous wrote:The My School DC FAQs discuss this. Enrolled means enrolled for SY 2015-16. That's why someone whose older kid will start K at Brent in fall 2015 can 'help' his/her younger sib get access to PK4 with sibling enrolled preference. The rules clearly state that if the older kid doesn't complete enrollment paperwork or goes elsewhere the younger siblings preference-based acceptance is no longer valid and they will be put into the mix with other kids without preference.

I like what you're saying, but I don't see that in the FAQs. Can you point to the specific FAQ that has that?

Oh, wow, thanks for pointing to that. The way it works is still a little nebulous, but by my reading, it is at the school's discretion to let a younger sibling keep their spot if the older sibling was at the school at the time of the lottery but doesn't enroll the following year. And if the older sibling wasn't at the school but enrolls and then unenrolls to go somewhere else, it is also at the school's discretion to let the younger sibling keep the spot.

If this is true, the school is always going to let the younger kid stay. And that's BS.

BS or not, that's life in dcps. There are residency cheaters in ECE at brent, the school is aware but doesn't take action. I can't imagine this topic will be any different. As people already said, they are running a school and have bigger issues.

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Anonymous wrote:The My School DC FAQs discuss this. Enrolled means enrolled for SY 2015-16. That's why someone whose older kid will start K at Brent in fall 2015 can 'help' his/her younger sib get access to PK4 with sibling enrolled preference. The rules clearly state that if the older kid doesn't complete enrollment paperwork or goes elsewhere the younger siblings preference-based acceptance is no longer valid and they will be put into the mix with other kids without preference.

I like what you're saying, but I don't see that in the FAQs. Can you point to the specific FAQ that has that?

Oh, wow, thanks for pointing to that. The way it works is still a little nebulous, but by my reading, it is at the school's discretion to let a younger sibling keep their spot if the older sibling was at the school at the time of the lottery but doesn't enroll the following year. And if the older sibling wasn't at the school but enrolls and then unenrolls to go somewhere else, it is also at the school's discretion to let the younger sibling keep the spot.

If this is true, the school is always going to let the younger kid stay. And that's BS.

BS or not, that's life in dcps. There are residency cheaters in ECE at brent, the school is aware but doesn't take action. I can't imagine this topic will be any different. As people already said, they are running a school and have bigger issues.

Well said. This could get ugly so probably better that it is centrally managed this year (that is, until August).