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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a real, intentional change, a significant one.

I don't know how many people actually try the trick where you rent IB for a school in order to get your child enrolled as an IB student, and then return to your actual home after a year or some other shorter period of time, but get to remain at the "former IB" through the terminal grade, but it's certainly been suggested on this website many times as a solution to bad lottery luck. But sounds like it's no longer even technically allowed.

I wonder if you would even be allowed to stay at the "former IB" through the end of the current school year? While I understand wanting to discourage people from essentially "fake moving" into a rental to gain access to a strong DCPS, kicking kids out midyear just because their families moved into another school boundary seems harsh. Sometimes it's hard to make a move perfectly line up with the school year.[/quote]

My read of this is that they are intending to make it sound like a policy change (perhaps to dissuade folks from doing this), but there is no real change. On page 15 of the same guide, it says:

"A My School DC lottery application is NOT required to:
• Enroll in grades K-12 at an in-boundary or geographic or programmatic feeder DCPS school.
• [b]Re-enroll in their current school or the current strand within their current school.[/b]
• Enroll via a formal placement." (emphasis added)

It is [/i]highly[i] unlikely that the policy is to ask kids to immediately switch schools in the middle of the school year. That has the potential to do nothing but create staffing and space issues at schools suddenly receiving new students. Assuming that kids are allowed to finish out the school year, they would not be required to submit a lottery application to re-enroll at their current school, which means the policy is effectively unchanged. The policy has always officially* been that a kid doesn't get feeder rights at the next school in a feeder pattern if they were in the lower grade school because it was their inbound and they then moved out-of-bounds, so that hasn't changed at all.

*I'm not saying the policy is actually followed... it's pretty clear from the part I just quoted that it isn't.
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