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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OOB parents choose the extra commute. IB parents should have a reasonable expectation that they can attend a neighborhood school when they purchase or rent a home in that neighborhood.

If you bought a home on Capitol Hill for the school, and then DCPS told you a two year renovation would send your kids to Tenleytown every day (after assuring you for two years that children would remain on campus for the renovation), you would be upset. H-A parents have a right to be upset, and certainly have a right to challenge the decision. [/quote]

Your property and income tax dollars go to DCPS, not your local IB school. And while you are guaranteed a IB slot -- which already gives you a lot of privilege, since your IB school is so highly sought after --you are not guaranteed special privileges in the overall system based on your address. Inconveniences happen in DCPS and not just to you. Not a catastrophe unless you turn it into one.[/quote]

NP here: It became "highly sought after" because of where it is.

No doubt you are an OOB parent who was lucky enough to get the truly "special privilege" of attending out of bounds. Now you want the school to come closer to you without paying up for it. You, too, would be irked if you liked your IB school and it moved a 20 minutes (30 min at rush hour) away from you.[/quote]

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