Erroneous info or big enrollment loophole?

[Anonymous]

From dme.dc.gov website and confirmed with MySchoolDC today at the EdFest
See #4
These are simply "recommendations" from the DME and NOT yet approved policy. Current policy is that students who enroll (IB or OOB) may remain in the school despite moving elsewhere in DC. Principals should not be asking families to leave if they move OOB.

DCPS Attendance Zones
Recommendation 1: Retain the existing policies on attendance zones, which give each student
the right to attend a grade-appropriate school based on his/her place of residence, and adopt the
updated and revised elementary and PK-8th attendance zones recommended by the Advisory
Committee on Student Assignment.
Recommendation 2: Provide students residing in zone for a whole school dual-language
elementary or PK-8th school the right to attend a non-dual language school that the Chancellor
has designated as the by-right alternative to the zoned dual-language school.
Recommendation 3: Establish middle school attendance zones by combining elementary
attendance zones designated to geographically feed into the middle school and establish high
school attendance zones by combining middle school or PK-8th school zones designated to
geographically feed into the high school.
Recommendation 4: A student whose place of residence within the District of Columbia changes
from one attendance zone to a different attendance zone shall be permitted to stay in the school
until the end of the school year. The student must obtain a seat through the out-of-boundary lottery
via the My School DC system in order to stay at the school beyond the end of the school year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From dme.dc.gov website and confirmed with MySchoolDC today at the EdFest
See #4
These are simply "recommendations" from the DME and NOT yet approved policy. Current policy is that students who enroll (IB or OOB) may remain in the school despite moving elsewhere in DC. Principals should not be asking families to leave if they move OOB.

DCPS Attendance Zones
Recommendation 1: Retain the existing policies on attendance zones, which give each student
the right to attend a grade-appropriate school based on his/her place of residence, and adopt the
updated and revised elementary and PK-8th attendance zones recommended by the Advisory
Committee on Student Assignment.
Recommendation 2: Provide students residing in zone for a whole school dual-language
elementary or PK-8th school the right to attend a non-dual language school that the Chancellor
has designated as the by-right alternative to the zoned dual-language school.
Recommendation 3: Establish middle school attendance zones by combining elementary
attendance zones designated to geographically feed into the middle school and establish high
school attendance zones by combining middle school or PK-8th school zones designated to
geographically feed into the high school.
Recommendation 4: A student whose place of residence within the District of Columbia changes
from one attendance zone to a different attendance zone shall be permitted to stay in the school
until the end of the school year. The student must obtain a seat through the out-of-boundary lottery
via the My School DC system in order to stay at the school beyond the end of the school year

Thanks for clarifying. Although this does make me question what the point of all the stakeholder engagement/listening sessions were if the end product was going to largely be ignored. Oh well. Not trying to shoot the messenger. Thanks again for posting PP

[Anonymous]

So why does Oyster think they can ask people who move OOB to leave? Also, why do people need to provide enrollment documents every year? If you can't be asked to leave, you should only need to prove you live in-boundary once.

http://oysteradamsbilingual.org/admissions/

[Anonymous]

Has anyone been asked to leave Oyster?

[Anonymous]

Yes under previous principal. Don't know under current one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: So why does Oyster think they can ask people who move OOB to leave? Also, why do people need to provide enrollment documents every year? If you can't be asked to leave, you should only need to prove you live in-boundary once.

http://oysteradamsbilingual.org/admissions/

The lack of policy is to give principals discretion. So the principal can choose to have someone stay or leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: So why does Oyster think they can ask people who move OOB to leave? Also, why do people need to provide enrollment documents every year? If you can't be asked to leave, you should only need to prove you live in-boundary once.

http://oysteradamsbilingual.org/admissions/

The lack of policy is to give principals discretion. So the principal can choose to have someone stay or leave.

And you still have to prove you live in DC - no principal discretion there!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: So why does Oyster think they can ask people who move OOB to leave? Also, why do people need to provide enrollment documents every year? If you can't be asked to leave, you should only need to prove you live in-boundary once.

http://oysteradamsbilingual.org/admissions/

The lack of policy is to give principals discretion. So the principal can choose to have someone stay or leave.

The OP's post suggests that there is no official policy of principal's discretion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: So why does Oyster think they can ask people who move OOB to leave? Also, why do people need to provide enrollment documents every year? If you can't be asked to leave, you should only need to prove you live in-boundary once.

http://oysteradamsbilingual.org/admissions/

The lack of policy is to give principals discretion. So the principal can choose to have someone stay or leave.

The OP's post suggests that there is no official policy of principal's discretion.

There is no official policy at all. Which is why it is principal's discretion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: So why does Oyster think they can ask people who move OOB to leave? Also, why do people need to provide enrollment documents every year? If you can't be asked to leave, you should only need to prove you live in-boundary once.

http://oysteradamsbilingual.org/admissions/

The lack of policy is to give principals discretion. So the principal can choose to have someone stay or leave.

The OP's post suggests that there is no official policy of principal's discretion.

There is no official policy at all. Which is why it is principal's discretion.

OP here. In witnessing an exchange between one of the DCPS ladies and the Ross Principal, the principal implied she had no discretion and wouldn't remove an IB family that moved OOB.

[Anonymous]

OP here. In witnessing an exchange between one of the DCPS ladies and the Ross Principal, the principal implied she had no discretion and wouldn't remove an IB family that moved OOB.

That's lovely--so the Ross kindergarten and 1st grade classes remain overcrowded at 25+ kids, when they in theory could be smaller. And once a family gets in at PK3, they can move OOB once the school year starts and retain their spots, even though there are inbounds families on the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Ross will be overrun pretty quickly! Way to go dcps...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: So why does Oyster think they can ask people who move OOB to leave? Also, why do people need to provide enrollment documents every year? If you can't be asked to leave, you should only need to prove you live in-boundary once.

http://oysteradamsbilingual.org/admissions/

The lack of policy is to give principals discretion. So the principal can choose to have someone stay or leave.

The OP's post suggests that there is no official policy of principal's discretion.

There is no official policy at all. Which is why it is principal's discretion.

OP here. In witnessing an exchange between one of the DCPS ladies and the Ross Principal, the principal implied she had no discretion and wouldn't remove an IB family that moved OOB.

Call central office and ask them for their official policy in writing. You will find that there isn't one. Ross principal can blame central all she wants, but she could kick people out of she wanted to do so.

[Anonymous]

Principal Searl should at least be checking whether PK families are inbounds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ross feeder is not particularly desirable in any case.

It is up to principal if once you complete a year, you can stay enrolled if you move OOB. If you rack up tardies because you're commuting from another area (the Hill to Dupont, say) then she's likely to ask you to switch schools.

This.

What does Ross feed? Cardozo or CHEC? Nobody wants into those schools anyway, there will always be room OOB.