If you move OOB after lotterying into an IB school but before school starts

[Anonymous]

Do you lose your spot?

[Anonymous]

Submit your enrollment papers now. Start school in the fall.

[Anonymous]

To clarify, this is if you just got a spot IB in the lottery
(PK3) and will move this summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Submit your enrollment papers now. Start school in the fall.

Is this totally legal under the current system?

[Anonymous]

Check with the school. For next year, you would likely have to do the lottery again for PreK 4 as OOB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you lose your spot?

I saw your post on MOTH and already reported you to the Peabody office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you lose your spot?

I saw your post on MOTH and already reported you to the Peabody office.

Heh. I was assuming this was the same person as well. Didn't like the advice due got on MOTH I'd guess. That said, since she posted by name on MOTH, I don't think she was trying to deceive anyone. (Pretty naive to post on MOTH though, given how many folks reading there want that spot!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you lose your spot?

I saw your post on MOTH and already reported you to the Peabody office.

Heh. I was assuming this was the same person as well. Didn't like the advice due got on MOTH I'd guess. That said, since she posted by name on MOTH, I don't think she was trying to deceive anyone. (Pretty naive to post on MOTH though, given how many folks reading there want that spot!)

This is actually not that person. But is someone who is on the waitlist and wondered.

[Anonymous]

This is a new PP. I've always wondered this. What's to stop someone from applying IB with a given address (be it current or former), receive IB status, and they then move after they've got the spot? Or even fake an address to receive IB preference? Does the school add them to the top of the OOB pile, if discovered they actually don't live IB, or is the spot forfeited altogether. Have no dog in this fight since we are in a charter.

[Anonymous]

Don't a lot of schools now do home visits? I would think this would catch some of the cheating.

[Anonymous]

I think they call this move "The Full Oyster"

[Anonymous]

I know people who have done this. I think it's the same as moving mid year. Once you register, you are good for the next school year. The following year, you have to lottery in from OOB. Principal discretion to let you stay may be alive for one more year, but this isn't a permanent strategy.

I don't have a problem with this, as long as it is just for one year. We have a process for getting kids into school, and it's based on your residency in May. Lots of people have to move mid year. Homes flood; landlords decide to sell. The people I know who are affected by this had to move. Their landlords returned from abroad and owner occupied the home. It's bad enough that they have to move, but their preschooler shouldn't have to be completely out out of a school spot too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know people who have done this. I think it's the same as moving mid year. Once you register, you are good for the next school year. The following year, you have to lottery in from OOB. Principal discretion to let you stay may be alive for one more year, but this isn't a permanent strategy.

I don't have a problem with this, as long as it is just for one year. We have a process for getting kids into school, and it's based on your residency in May. Lots of people have to move mid year. Homes flood; landlords decide to sell. The people I know who are affected by this had to move. Their landlords returned from abroad and owner occupied the home. It's bad enough that they have to move, but their preschooler shouldn't have to be completely out out of a school spot too.

^^ should mention that I don't know if this is the official policy. Also, home visits by teachers are optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they call this move "The Full Oyster"

Shhhhhh...let's not attract the troll from the Oyster thread, or she will start insulting everyone who stays in boundary for " feeling morally superior"...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check with the school. For next year, you would likely have to do the lottery again for PreK 4 as OOB.

+1