moving ob for school - do we loose spot?
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Anonymous
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We are IB for Easton (pk4) and will likely be IB when fall slots are assigned in March. But we are looking EoP for a bigger place (right now we are 700 sq feet and a family of 4 - can't afford a three bedroom wop).
If we move this summer or even in September after we get our eaton slot, do we loose it? I am just wondering about the lottery. I would put eaton 1st and, since we have boundary preference, we'd likely get in, but if we are going to loose our slot once we move EoP, I'd put other OB schools before it since we won't loose those slots if we move. Make sense? Also if we can keep eaton when we move, does that mean, under current rules, we can go to Deal (or likely Hardy) and Wilson no matter where we live? Thansk! |
Anonymous
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You will lose your IB spot at Eaton if you move OOB. You just haven't been there long enough for the school to justify keeping you on.
If, however, you subsequently apply to the OOB lottery for Eaton and get in, under current regulations you will have the right to attend Eaton no matter where you live and you will also have feeder privileges to Deal and Wilson. |
Anonymous
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Wow. And we wonder why NW schools are overcrowded?
PP is right that in principle OP should lose her spot...but in practice most people I know (at another very popular NW school) don't. The principal prefers to let people stay...and then complain how overcrowded the school is. |
Anonymous
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OP here.
Eaton isn't overcrowded. I was asking about how I should play the lottery not about scheming to keep an IB spot after we move ob. It sounds like I should put ob schools before eaton because if we get into those we are safer than if we get into eaton. Thanks! |
Anonymous
| so if you get into a school with sibling preference and the sibling dies over the summer, you loose your spot? |
Anonymous
It is up to the principle, just like of you move. I would hope after something so tragic they would allow the younger child to stay. |
Anonymous
| interesting |
Anonymous
| ?? What's about the tragic? |
Anonymous
| hypothetical siblings hypothetically dying = not very tragic |
Anonymous
You might not think it is over crowded but we have friends whose kid is and IB sibling and didn't get into PK4 until the end of October. There are legitimate families applying for the spots. Time for you to move on. |
Anonymous
Poor drama queen, you saw through her BS... |
Anonymous
Eaton is at full capacity AND it feeds into overcrowded Deal and Wilson. |
Anonymous
Oh my goodness. For the zillionth time, I was asking because I am about to play the lottery and wanted to know where to put eaton on my list of lottery preferences. This wasn't a scheming question - it was a lottery question. I am a legitimate Eaton family that has owned a very small condo IB for the last 3.5 years. It is (maybe) possible we will still be here in the fall as we've been looking for almost a year and can't find anything we can afford but it is likely we will eventually move (when I don't know) , so I am still playing the lottery. |
Anonymous
| OP, if I were you, I'd email the principal with your question. If your lucky you'll receive a positive response that you can produce later when you have actually moved. Don't be put off by all the grumps on this thread. You're smart to try and figure this out now. As for Eop we're at Barnard and are very happy. I hear great things about Powell and West. Good luck |
Anonymous
| OP you don't even know what the OOB process will look like after the boundary review process. I would apply for Eaton with your Ib preference and put it first. That is where you live now and when you plug in your address via the application it will automatically give you IB preference so it's not even possible to apply OOB to Eaton. |