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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Submit your enrollment papers now.  Start school in the fall.[/quote]

Is this totally legal under the current system?[/quote]

Yes.  And next year when you are in the school, enrollment papers will be automatically generated for you following the lottery.  Fill them out, with your new DC address, submit them.  And then send your child to school when it starts in August 2016.

There is no current DC law that states you are required to lottery into your existing school if you move out of boundary after enrollment.  The boundary recommendations under Gray addressed this which was subsequently suspended for 2015-16 by the current mayor.

There is no systemwide policy or law in place in DC that requires you to lottery after moving OOB (within DC).  If it exists, someone please link to it.[/quote]

I believe the current policy is "Principal's discretion." I actually support it. For instance, what if you had two kids in an IB school when she and her husband got divorced. When they sold the house neither one could afford to live IB anymore. We're talking about two elementary kids whose parents just divorced. Without discretion those kids are going to have to change schools as well. That's a bad outcome; education should be a positive and a constant in a storm.[/quote]

Some schools do that, [b]others make it explicit that, if you won a spot claiming IB status and then move out, you lose the spot automatically (next school year). [/b]Which makes sense as a general rule. In the case above, one of the two parents often remain in boundary. And, otherwise, it'd be way too easy to manipulate the boundary system.[/quote]

Which schools do this?  Genuinely curious, we are at a principal's discretion school and I have never heard of a school where this is enforced.  For those of us in this situation, knowing that loss of spot is automatic is important to know.  I am only aware of the circumstance that once you have secured your spot and remain in the district, you retain your spot.  It would be interesting to know where this moving out OOB mid-year requiring lottery to secure spot next year is enforced.  [/quote]

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