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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As I mentioned in another thread, a friend of a friend rented an apt in a JKLM boundary so their three kids would be IB. Much more efficient than the convoluted scenario in the OP.[/quote]

I think the problem is that if you get in with an IB right and then you move OOB you lose your spot at the school.  Historically, if you get in OOB, it doesn't matter where you live. You keep your OOB spot regardless.  If you don't want to live in an apartment on Wisconsin forever and would rather live in your house in Petworth or Bloomingdale but not send your kids to the mediocre schools there, then it makes more sense to try for an OOB spot than to move IB temporarily. [/quote]

this is not true. we were IB for a JKLM school and our kid did pre-k there (we were trying to game the system, had been renting a place there for 7 years, long before child was even born) right before kindergarten started we bought IB for another JKLM school. we asked to stay at our original school because kid was happy there and we were already part of the community. nobody kicked our kid out. I udnerstand it is at teh discretion of the principal whether a IB kid who moves OOB can stay, and in our case we had no problem (and two of my kid's classmates ended up in the same situatio, one chose to leave the school, the other to stay and did it with no problem).  our second kid is now there and got a spot as OOB with subling preference.  so, at least in my experience, you do  not automatically lose your spot if you move OOB after getting in as IB (I actually do not know anybody who did)[/quote]

It will probably be principal's discretion under the new scenario of coming from a failing school and then moving.[/quote]

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