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This is something I just don't understand. Even the cruddy apartments in the Deal boundary are not cheap. Nor is the house on Capitol Hill or in Wesley Heights. If you have the money to live in those places and rent a secondary apartment, you can afford by far a house in Deal's boundary. And, as a bonus, you don't have to schlep a kid(s) from Capitol Hill to upper NW, which sounds like a twice a day nightmare. Why would you choose the path of most resistance rather than just moving?[/quote]

Under the current DCPS rules, once you enroll in a school IB you can stay in the school if you move OOB all the way through the feeder pattern. So you only have to rent an apartment long enough to get admitted and establish your IB rights. Maybe six months tops.

If you are a homeowner, moving is expensive. Between real estate commissions, transfer taxes and moving expenses figure on 10% of the sales price by the time you're done. If you're in a million dollar home, we're talking six figures. Fifteen or twenty grand for six months rent isn't so bad against that backdrop.

Note that if you move IB, you run the risk of your school being rezoned and losing your IB status. Once you're OOB -- even if you got that status from moving from IB -- you have a better guarantee than the IB families do. [/quote]

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