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[quote=Anonymous]We have a convoluted issue that isn’t a *serious* hardship, but weighing my options. I just heard about COSA, and in my research it seems like a long shot— but it would help us a lot.

Situation:

DC will start K next year. Our MoCo suburb is weirdly divided and people who live in the same “neighborhood” (small collection of neighborhoods) are assigned to one of 3 different ES, each of which feeds into a different MS AND a different HS.

IMO, all of the ES are decent, although I have a slight preference for the culture of what I’ll call Right School.

We are in boundary for Center School, and we live in an apartment, where we’ve been for several years. Our lease will come up in the spring. We would like to stay in our general “neighborhood” and MAY be able to afford to buy by then, but I’d say only a 30-40% chance of that, given our budget and tight timeline. We will be able to buy within the next 2-3 years though, for sure (ish).

We would like our DC to stay in the same school for all 6 years of ES, which seems reasonable. This is a pretty strong preference of ours.

Center School (our current home school) is fine, but my main objection is that the only affordable area for us to BUY in this “neighborhood” is within the boundaries of Right School. (Center School’s boundaries include mostly apartments, commercial areas or really expensive homes.)

Two twists— first, we live literally across the street from Right School’s boundary. If we moved a block away, we’d be within it. In fact, Right School is also physically closer to us than our home school, Center School. Second, Right School is actually considered the least desirable of the local schools, Title I, etc. I don’t see it that way, but might it help that we want a transfer INTO that school when many probably want out?

In sum, we have a few options:

1) Buy within Right School district this spring. Only a 30-40% chance of that working out. If not, then…
2) Renew our lease and send our kid to Center School, but probably have to switch schools after K or 1st grade, when we’d buy in Right School district. We really don’t want to do this, but…?
3) Move to another apartment a couple of blocks away, within Right School district. Even though it would be a relatively “easy” move, it’s a PITA. Plus, we really like our apartment management company, so based on our experience w/apartments through the years, we’re probably going to have to take a step down.
4) Try for a COSA, but based on relatively flimsy, somewhat hypothetical reasons. Any help for this? It sounds like a non-starter, except for the twists mentioned above (we’re so close to the RS boundary, and RS is not seen as a “desirable” school).

Thanks if you made it this far! Any input appreciated.[/quote]

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