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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ACPS refugee here:

Yes, this has been going on for a couple of years.

Basically the "Modified Open Enrollment" policy was enacted last year. It basically means you won't get into y[b]our neighborhood school if you don't register quickly enough. Spots are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.[/b]

The populations who will be hurt by this include:

-- Brown people, including those who speak English and those who do not. The Hispanic population tends to not register their kids until the first day of school. Ditto kids from the projects. So, what they'll find is that they won't get into their overcrowded school.

-- Newly arrived people. Anyone who buys a house this summer and is late for the registration deadline.

Basically,[b] Charles Barrett is the overflow school in the city[/b]. Right now, the kids who can't or don't want to get into Tucker go to Barrett. As crowding surges, these other kids who are squeezed out of MacArthur, Maury, Lyles Crouch, etc. will be sent to Barrett.

Which should be really interesting b/c Barrett has been something of an oasis in the last year or so. But it about to accept all of the problem children.
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[b]No, that policy is changing for the upcoming school year [/b]and [b][u]now it will not matter if you register early[/u].[/b]  [b]Effectively the school board just decided that there would no longer be school boundaries - at least for Kindergarten[/b]. If that policy continues, that really sucks for people who own in the City.

I really believe that this is the City's attempt to fill Jefferson-Houston with students who will increase test scores.  The oversubscribed schools are mainly George Mason, Macarthur and Lyles Crouch and the one of the closest "proximity" schools is J-H.

Barrett lost their capitol funding for physical expansion efforts.  In fact, they will have to reduce their incoming K class over the next couple of years to ensure they have room to accommodate their current students.  The information is on the schools website in their most recent newsletter.[/quote]

The above poster got it right. There are now no longer school boundaries starting in K. Also, Maury is going from 4 kindergarten classes to 3 classes next year.

The budget problems are absolutely horrendous. At swim lessons last week, I learned that Chinquapin had to stop plans for redoing their center because TC Williams overspent by a few million for its new construction, so all the money that was planned for a new community and aquatic center at Chinquapin has been delayed indefinitely according to their management.[/quote]

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