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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a child who will graduate from a Wilson feeding middle school. We reside inside the geographic boundary for this middle school. What happens if we move outside of the geographic boundary? Does my child still have access to Wilson because they will have graduated from a feeder middle?

We are NOT out of boundary for this middle. To me, the rules are clear in that scenario. The out-of-boundary student does clearly have access to Wilson.[/quote]

DCPS has not given a clear answer on this even when directly asked. At my elementary last year kids automatically enrolled in the feeder middle even though they were out of bounds. [/quote]

Agree. The DCPS policy is clear, but it's not clear that the policy is being enforced or followed. It also is a new policy as of about a year or so ago and before then people who moved DID retain feeder rights.

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No that is wrong. You never retained your feeder rights unless you got in through the lottery. About a year ago, someone revised the manual (not the regulation or law) and said you did retain those rights, which was incorrect, but stayed on the books for a year then was fixed. By law, you lose the feeder school if you move, though some insistent wordsmiths will bend over backward to claim that they are entitled to enroll anywhere in DC they choose. But in practice, kids are automatically transferred and when they enroll, it isn't clear how they got there. Hence the outrageous overcrowding.[/quote]

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