Regular change of address or COSA? for DCC HS choice program

[Anonymous]

Our situation: divorced parents with joint legal and physical custody (EQUALLY 50-50), i.e. NO primary or secondary caregiver. DC attends a MS magnet, not DC's home school. DC has the father's address in school records. DC would like to take part in Round 1 in the Choice Program to select a HS in DCC. With father's address, DC is eligible to take part only in Round 2. However, with the mother's address, DC would be eligible to take part in Round 1. I see no problem in requesting the address change (to the mother's) even now (DC is in 7th grade), since DC would be allowed to finish MS magnet anyway. However, if DC does not get it's 1st HS choice, it would be better if DC has the father's address, who resides in a better cluster (not DCC). So, the address would then have to be changed back to the father's. Advice?

[Anonymous]

Is the MS magnet either Takoma or Eastern? I thought if a kid attends a middle school in the DCC, regardless of where they live, that they can participate in the choice process. Is that not right, or are we talking about a different MS magnet (Clemente)??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the MS magnet either Takoma or Eastern? I thought if a kid attends a middle school in the DCC, regardless of where they live, that they can participate in the choice process. Is that not right, or are we talking about a different MS magnet (Clemente)??

I think that may just be the rule for applying to Blair's CAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the MS magnet either Takoma or Eastern? I thought if a kid attends a middle school in the DCC, regardless of where they live, that they can participate in the choice process. Is that not right, or are we talking about a different MS magnet (Clemente)??

I think that may just be the rule for applying to Blair's CAP.

OP here. Yes, DC can apply to CAP, but that is separate from the regular DCC HS Choice program. DC would like to go Blair. DC is eilgible to apply and will apply to Blair's STEM and CAP, but would like be able to also choose Blair in Round 1 of the regular Choice program.

[Anonymous]

A friend did basically what you're describing a couple years ago and it was fine. Her DC didn't get desired choice so they switched to father's address and went to Blake after the choice process was complete. You probably know this, but if mother is in DCC but not Blair boundaries, the odds are pretty low. My DC knew quite a few out of bounds students who put Blair first but none that got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A friend did basically what you're describing a couple years ago and it was fine. Her DC didn't get desired choice so they switched to father's address and went to Blake after the choice process was complete. You probably know this, but if mother is in DCC but not Blair boundaries, the odds are pretty low. My DC knew quite a few out of bounds students who put Blair first but none that got it.

How bad are the other choices if quite a few put down blair?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A friend did basically what you're describing a couple years ago and it was fine. Her DC didn't get desired choice so they switched to father's address and went to Blake after the choice process was complete. You probably know this, but if mother is in DCC but not Blair boundaries, the odds are pretty low. My DC knew quite a few out of bounds students who put Blair first but none that got it.

How bad are the other choices if quite a few put down blair?

You can always count on a comment like this from someone who lives nowhere near, nor has any connection to, the DCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A friend did basically what you're describing a couple years ago and it was fine. Her DC didn't get desired choice so they switched to father's address and went to Blake after the choice process was complete. You probably know this, but if mother is in DCC but not Blair boundaries, the odds are pretty low. My DC knew quite a few out of bounds students who put Blair first but none that got it.

How bad are the other choices if quite a few put down blair?

You can always count on a comment like this from someone who lives nowhere near, nor has any connection to, the DCC.

Yeah, really.

Anyway, according to the Choice Study only 5% of out of bounds students who put Blair first received it in the first round (the year of the study). Any other school and they likely get their first choice. My DCC has friends at 4 of the five schools so people do consider their choices.

[Anonymous]

If you're in the magnet at Eastern or Takoma, like the OP's DC, chances are that many of your friends are either in bounds for Blair or will continue on to one of the magnets at Blair. Not mention that Blair is a big, happening high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're in the magnet at Eastern or Takoma, like the OP's DC, chances are that many of your friends are either in bounds for Blair or will continue on to one of the magnets at Blair. Not mention that Blair is a big, happening high school.

But if you aren't in bounds and you don't get in to a Blair program, you don't get preference for Blair? Is that right? Even if you are on a COSA to a feeder middle school magnet.

[Anonymous]

It is extremely rare to get Blair on the first round unless you live in the specific Blair boundaries. It can be appealed for future rounds so long as Blair is put as the first choice on the form and the student did not get their first choice. Last year, we got assigned to Blair in the 2nd round, which we found out after the magnet acceptance.

For those asking about the other DCC schools, Wheaton has become a good school -- really dedicated teachers and administration (though I'm sure that there are plenty of people who would slam it just because of its location).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is extremely rare to get Blair on the first round unless you live in the specific Blair boundaries. It can be appealed for future rounds so long as Blair is put as the first choice on the form and the student did not get their first choice. Last year, we got assigned to Blair in the 2nd round, which we found out after the magnet acceptance.

For those asking about the other DCC schools, Wheaton has become a good school -- really dedicated teachers and administration (though I'm sure that there are plenty of people who would slam it just because of its location).

I'd actually say the same for Einstein and Northwood. The IB program at Einstein is good, and I'm hearing increasingly good things about Northwood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is extremely rare to get Blair on the first round unless you live in the specific Blair boundaries. It can be appealed for future rounds so long as Blair is put as the first choice on the form and the student did not get their first choice. Last year, we got assigned to Blair in the 2nd round, which we found out after the magnet acceptance.

For those asking about the other DCC schools, Wheaton has become a good school -- really dedicated teachers and administration (though I'm sure that there are plenty of people who would slam it just because of its location).

I have a 7th grader so I am not up to speed yet on the process. Do you mean that your child put Blair 1st but got it on the second round? Is the second round an appeal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is extremely rare to get Blair on the first round unless you live in the specific Blair boundaries. It can be appealed for future rounds so long as Blair is put as the first choice on the form and the student did not get their first choice. Last year, we got assigned to Blair in the 2nd round, which we found out after the magnet acceptance.

For those asking about the other DCC schools, Wheaton has become a good school -- really dedicated teachers and administration (though I'm sure that there are plenty of people who would slam it just because of its location).

I have a 7th grader so I am not up to speed yet on the process. Do you mean that your child put Blair 1st but got it on the second round? Is the second round an appeal?

Not the PP, but second round is a little less formal than an appeal (there is in fact an appeal process after both rounds). The first round form asks for a ranking of the schools and everyone is guaranteed their neighborhood school if they place that first. Anyone who doesn't receive their top choice can ask that their form be reconsidered in the second round, but they can't submit a new form.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is extremely rare to get Blair on the first round unless you live in the specific Blair boundaries. It can be appealed for future rounds so long as Blair is put as the first choice on the form and the student did not get their first choice. Last year, we got assigned to Blair in the 2nd round, which we found out after the magnet acceptance.

For those asking about the other DCC schools, Wheaton has become a good school -- really dedicated teachers and administration (though I'm sure that there are plenty of people who would slam it just because of its location).

I'd actually say the same for Einstein and Northwood. The IB program at Einstein is good, and I'm hearing increasingly good things about Northwood.

Interesting perspective PP. Of parents of current 9th graders, those at Einstein seem to be least happy overall.