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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if all the kids in a family are at a school because of administrative transfers?  They all move?[/quote]

Yes, unless they will be rising 4th or 5th graders this summer.

I have a rising 4th grader so his 1st grade sister can stay as long as he's there, which is one year.

My neighbors, however, have just one kid and since she's a 2nd grader, she's getting the boot.

This is how idiotic and sloppy the school board was with the grandfathering process. They created situations where literal next door neighbors are treated disparately.[/quote]

If you're neighbor has only one kid and she received an administrative transfer, then she gets to stay in her school regardless of what grade she's in. There's a distinction between an "administrative transfer" and "sibling of an administrative transfer". The siblings only get to stay until the child with the transfer graduates from the school. But any child who received a transfer directly (not from being a sibling), gets to stay regardless of grade.[/quote]

Does it really matter what construct the school board created that fostered the disparate treatment of next door neighbors? "Sorry, Billy has a blue pass, so he has to leave. Susie has a yellow one, so she gets to stay.

What matters is that taxpayers are getting treated differently by ACPS. No one can argue that that's OK.[/quote]

But that didn't bother you when you were on the positive end of the unfair treatment.  What about all the kids left at the school you didn't want to go to while you got an "administrative transfer"?

That was ACPS's mistake.  Ever allowing these transfers that -let's just call it what it is- are transfers for the well-off white people who knew enough to game the system.  They just have to rip the Band-Aid off and be done with it.

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