If you get in nowhere, what next?

[Anonymous]

This is what's going on in NY with this situation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/realestate/05Cov.html?_r=1&hpw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you speculating as to the law, from the dcps website:

2105.1 Except as provided otherwise in this chapter, a student shall be required to attend the school for which the student is eligible which serves the attendance zone established for his or her place of residence, as defined in § 2199.

2105.2 A student whose place of residence within the District of Columbia changes from one attendance zone to a different attendance zone shall be transferred to the school serving the attendance zone where the student’s new place of residence is located. This requirement is subject to the exceptions set forth in §§ 2105.5 and 2105.7.

Those rules crosse- reference these rules:

2105.5 To provide for continuity of instruction, especially in the case of high school seniors scheduled to graduate the following June, the principal may authorize the continued attendance of the student at the school currently being attended for the remainder of the term or school year.

2105.6 Requests for permission to continue in attendance at a school out-of-zone must be made to the principal by the student’s parent or guardian, or by the adult student, prior to the effective date of the transfer.

2105.7 The provisions of § 2106 may be applied to a student whose change of place of residence would require a transfer under this section. A student who meets the requirements of § 2106 for out-of-zone attendance may be allowed to remain at the school currently being attended notwithstanding his or her change of address.

Section 2106 is the out of boundary rules, which have recently been updated and are too long to import

I read this saying the rule is to move schools when you move homes. I think the school has discretion to allow an in-bound student that moves out of bounds to stay. I do not think such a student has the same rights as a student that got in through the out of boundary process. If you are in a highly desirable overcrowded school, I would not count on being allowed to stay should you move out of boundary.

This has been going on for YEARS. In reality, unless the student is a behavior problem, principals do not ask them to leave. They never have. They're not going to start.

[Anonymous]

until they do...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:until they do...

Yeah, that'll go over well. I can just picture the principal who wants to tell the OOB child that they have to discontinue their instruction to change schools (even though there are other OOB students). All they have to do is picture that story running in the Post (poor little Susie having to leave Lafayette to go to Emery).

It'll never happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:until they do...

Oh my God, are you serious? Can you imagine the publicity black eye that would be? Like DCPS doesn't look bad enough already, some principal is going to stand in the door like George Wallace defying integration in Alabama in 1963? Not letting the little girl from the wrong side of 16th Street into her school?! It'll be even better if the child is minority of course!

Pass the popcorn, we could sell tickets to that imaginary trainwreck!

[Anonymous]

do not underestimate michelle rhee...

[Anonymous]

You are forgetting one thing. If your child is a high tester, and the family is very involved in helping run the school, the principal might prefer the student to continue to enroll as an OOB if you move. Remember the current climate is very data-driven.

[Anonymous]

the student to continue to enroll

ah

i meant "the student continue to enroll ... "

how can you edit your posts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:50% of dcps students attend a school outside their boundary. that is why dcps is considered a school choice district. unless there are severe or negligent behavior by the students that are oob or become oob when they move out the school zoned area i have never ever headr of anyone being displaced, in addition with no child left behind if a school has npt mey ayp for a number of years, those students BY RIGHT have the opportunity to attend a school out of their neighborhood school. a letter is sent every year to every student in those schools letting them know where they can transfer too.

You don't get to pick whatever school you want, though! They pick for you or you register in the lottery process like everyone else!

I don't care if it's been going on for YEARS, as one poster keeps saying. It's against regulations. Lots of things go on for YEARS that are wrong. It does NOT justify it. It just doesn't.

We go to a very desirable school. Maybe I'll bring this up with the principal. I think it's time for address checks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are forgetting one thing. If your child is a high tester, and the family is very involved in helping run the school, the principal might prefer the student to continue to enroll as an OOB if you move. Remember the current climate is very data-driven.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:until they do...

Oh my God, are you serious? Can you imagine the publicity black eye that would be? Like DCPS doesn't look bad enough already, some principal is going to stand in the door like George Wallace defying integration in Alabama in 1963? Not letting the little girl from the wrong side of 16th Street into her school?! It'll be even better if the child is minority of course!

Pass the popcorn, we could sell tickets to that imaginary trainwreck!

Are YOU serious? we're not talking about low income disenfranchised kids in this post. we're talking about entitled folks who want their nice townhouse in Mt Pleasant, but don't want to go to school in Mt Pleasant. We're talking people who have enough money to rent an additional residence in-bounds of wealthy neighborhoods, in addition to paying their mortgage, just so they don't have to move. I can guarantee you that truly needy children are NOT engaging in these scenarios. Their parents dont' have the funds for this. And the most needy kids don't even have parents that care this much. This is NOT the segment of the population that is on this board right now championing falsified residency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are forgetting one thing. If your child is a high tester, and the family is very involved in helping run the school, the principal might prefer the student to continue to enroll as an OOB if you move. Remember the current climate is very data-driven.

Exactly.

Yes - your brilliant child is really tipping the test scores for the school. Sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:50% of dcps students attend a school outside their boundary. that is why dcps is considered a school choice district. unless there are severe or negligent behavior by the students that are oob or become oob when they move out the school zoned area I have never ever heard of anyone being displaced, in addition with No Child Left Behind if a school has not met ayp for a number of years, those students BY RIGHT have the opportunity to attend a school out of their neighborhood school. A letter is sent every year to every student in those schools letting them know where they can transfer too.

You don't get to pick whatever school you want, though! They pick for you or you register in the lottery process like everyone else!

I don't care if it's been going on for YEARS, as one poster keeps saying. It's against regulations. Lots of things go on for YEARS that are wrong. It does NOT justify it. It just doesn't.

We go to a very desirable school. Maybe I'll bring this up with the principal. I think it's time for address checks.

You are absolutely WRONG! With NCLB you get a letter (I have received one in the past, in my very nice wealthy neighborhood east of rock creek, that says my child's school has not mt AYP and it listed two excellent schools fort her to attend west of the park in ward 3--no lottery, not oob.

[Anonymous]

"Are YOU serious? we're not talking about low income disenfranchised kids in this post. we're talking about entitled folks who want their nice townhouse in Mt Pleasant, but don't want to go to school in Mt Pleasant. We're talking people who have enough money to rent an additional residence in-bounds of wealthy neighborhoods, in addition to paying their mortgage, just so they don't have to move. I can guarantee you that truly needy children are NOT engaging in these scenarios. Their parents dont' have the funds for this. And the most needy kids don't even have parents that care this much. This is NOT the segment of the population that is on this board right now championing falsified residency. "

This is so outrageous--poster above. What "entotlement are you referring to? There are lots of ways to get in to a great school without renting or buying a house in the neighborhood. We got in to 3 great schools--2 DCPS and 1 charter for 2009 and now we have to decide--it was all lottery. I love my neighborhood and do not and should not have to move to another neighborhood for the schools. School choice is about options and opportunities. Rhee will not change that--she is all about school choice and attempting to make excellent schools for everywne in DC.

[Anonymous]

Rhee stated in 2007, The Wall Street Journal: “I would never, as long as I am in this role, do anything to limit another parent’s ability to make a choice for their child. Ever.”