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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on the school.  You can call MSDC to ask (they are incredibly helpful) but your younger child CAN be unenrolled if your older child left.  What sort of numbers does your younger child have at other schools?  That should give you a sense of whether they would have gotten that spot without the sibling preference.

See here - https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/556117.page[/quote]

Man, the story in that thread is a bummer.

I understand we don't want people to game the system, but if it's the week before school starts, both your kids are enrolled in a school, and then one kid gets off a wait list, that should not impact the other kid. That isn't gaming the system, that's just... life. And in that story, this all happened a WEEK before school started? Come on.

The problem with booting the other kid out of his enrolled school is that he's missed his chance at all the schools lower on the list. Heck, he lost his spot at whatever school he was in the year before, since he already enrolled at the new school! Once a kid is enrolled at a school, he should not be removed because of a change in sibling preference. The only way to do that that would be fair would be offer that kid a slot at whatever school he would have gotten into without sibling preference... say it would have been his #5 or #6 choice school. But in order to do that, you'd need to boot a different kid out of that school! No fair. Just let the kid stay in if he's already enrolled.

I don't rule the world, but if I did, that's what I'd do. [/quote]

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