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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Principals have a lot of power. The easiest way to go about this would be to make an appointment with the principal and plead your case. I recommend bringing your daughter with you and having her send a persuasive letter to the principal as well. Have a thought out approach to why you want to switch to Blair.

Your 2nd option is to withdraw and re-enroll. If you withdraw, I assume you will lose your spot in currently enrolled classes, but, you are late in the game to register at Blair anyway, so, maybe it doesn't matter. There may be other repercussions. I live in the DCC and though I've had discussions about this with other parents over the years, I don't actually know anybody who has withdrawn and re-enrolled. I do know a few kids who were principal placed at their inbound schools (Einstein) after going through the choice process and being placed at other schools.[/quote]

Do you think it’s likely that the Blair principal would make a special exception for my daughter? Has she ever enrolled any students before from doing this? I’m sorry if this comes off as rude, but I just don’t want to take any risks anymore and I’m not sure if this idea will work.[/quote]

Contact your State Delegates and Senator. [/quote]
 :roll: Don’t listen to this idiot.

MCPS has very clear policies about school assignments and how the DCC works. Since Blair is over enrolled, you are unlikely to get special preference from the principal (which opens them up to actual challenges.) unenrolling and then re-enrolling in a few weeks won’t do what you want either. Your student will retain their ID and all the records. The office in charge of DCC placement isn’t going to magically place her at Blair, like they didn’t know what you were trying to do.

Appealing the decision is also unlikely to work. From your perspective, you have an individual request that seems reasonable. From MCPS’s perspective, they get hundreds of requests that they cannot accommodate, so they very carefully follow the documented process so that no one says someone got preferential treatment. You can read about appeals regarding placement that went all the way to they state board and we’re still denied.[/quote]

So, if I unenroll then reenroll from MCPS, there’s not a guarantee that they assign me to Blair?[/quote]

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