Change to policy re: moving out of boundary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, renters. There isn’t a lot of rental or less expensive housing stock, especially as kids get older and need more space and privacy. So you squeeze into a smaller space until you can’t. It might not be possible to find anything in particular bounds to rent or buy that both fits your needs and is in your budget, but does that mean your kids should have less stability in their education?

This is how it works for renters in every other place I've ever lived.

Not sure where you are talking about but in the burbs here kids go to their IB school, renter or not. They don’t get any special exception.

I think we're agreeing? My point was that renters everywhere go to their IB school, and I've never lived anywhere that justifies endless grandfathering by complaining its unfair that renters "have less stability in their education."

[Anonymous]

But when I did the lottery for 24-25 I was automatically granted my inboundary and the current feeder (kid going into G6). I couldn’t even put it down as my top 12. So maybe the rule has changed but they haven’t updated the lottery process to reflect it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m someone who used a grandparent’s address to get my child into a specific school. I’m in bounds for one overcrowded ward 3 school and I wanted my child to attend a different ward 3 school to be with their cousins. Both schools feed to the same middle school, so this was just an issue for elementary. I know some people have strong opinions on this, but I’m unconvinced I hurt anyone here.

I’ve got no issue with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ugg. This is so confusing because on page 9 it says this (see number 3):
Admission Method Applicable Scenarios
By Right
1. The student’s home address is within the boundary for the school of enrollment and the
student will enroll in grades K-12. All PK3 or PK4 students must submit a My School DC
lottery application.
2. The student completed the terminal grade in a school and will enroll in the designated
geographic or programmatic feeder school entry grade. Geographic feeder pattern
rights do not extend to students who enroll as in-boundary students and then move
out of the boundary or to students who have withdrawn from an out-of-boundary
feeder pattern at any point.
3. Student is re-enrolling for the next grade in their current school.

I don’t think DCPS actually changed their policy. I think you can re-enroll at your current school as long as you can show DC residency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is just the small but vocal "boundary fraud" brigade drumming up reasons to stop people from renting in the deal pyramid.

They just did a boundary review and discussed attendance rights. Nothing like the change discussed here was brought up

try again, pathetic loser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, renters. There isn’t a lot of rental or less expensive housing stock, especially as kids get older and need more space and privacy. So you squeeze into a smaller space until you can’t. It might not be possible to find anything in particular bounds to rent or buy that both fits your needs and is in your budget, but does that mean your kids should have less stability in their education?

This is how it works for renters in every other place I've ever lived.

Not sure where you are talking about but in the burbs here kids go to their IB school, renter or not. They don’t get any special exception.

I think we're agreeing? My point was that renters everywhere go to their IB school, and I've never lived anywhere that justifies endless grandfathering by complaining its unfair that renters "have less stability in their education."

Yeah this is how MCPS does it, although you can apply for an exception if you have to move. I actually think the DCPS policy is a good one for maintaining stability for a population that by and large moves a lot within the city. I actually doubt there are many people gaming the system by renting an apartment IB for Deal and moving after a year. (Which is different from actually lying about your address using a rental property you never lived in.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But when I did the lottery for 24-25 I was automatically granted my inboundary and the current feeder (kid going into G6). I couldn’t even put it down as my top 12. So maybe the rule has changed but they haven’t updated the lottery process to reflect it.

The update is in next year’s handbook, so this year’s lottery would have no reason to reflect it yet.

[Anonymous]

I moved nearby but out of boundary knowing my child could stay with her long-time friends at the same elementary school because the policy allows for it. If the policy was different, I might have kept renting the former place through 4th or 5th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved nearby but out of boundary knowing my child could stay with her long-time friends at the same elementary school because the policy allows for it. If the policy was different, I might have kept renting the former place through 4th or 5th.

Ok, but lots of people buy in a specific school district and then lose rights to a school through redistricting. Sh*t happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved nearby but out of boundary knowing my child could stay with her long-time friends at the same elementary school because the policy allows for it. If the policy was different, I might have kept renting the former place through 4th or 5th.

Ok, but lots of people buy in a specific school district and then lose rights to a school through redistricting. Sh*t happens.

NP. Not the same thing. When DC redistricts they grandfather kids already at that school. For example, kids who are now IB for MacArthur but already at JR may remain. That policy has been applied to ES and MS as well, allowing kids to remain through terminal grade of the enrolled school. The new policy is quite different in that respect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But when I did the lottery for 24-25 I was automatically granted my inboundary and the current feeder (kid going into G6). I couldn’t even put it down as my top 12. So maybe the rule has changed but they haven’t updated the lottery process to reflect it.

The update is in next year’s handbook, so this year’s lottery would have no reason to reflect it yet.

Do you know when it is supposed to take effect? is there any grandfathering for current kids to finish out their terminal grade at school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is just the small but vocal "boundary fraud" brigade drumming up reasons to stop people from renting in the deal pyramid.

They just did a boundary review and discussed attendance rights. Nothing like the change discussed here was brought up

try again, pathetic loser.

NP — this is literally only an issue for the dozen elementary schools that feed into JR. The obsession with boundary fraud looks a little icky to observers outside the JR pyramid.