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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's one of these policies that seems like a reasonable policy but when you look at the actual cases and situations it's not. It seems fair (because, well, I too had to lottery) and it seems a deterrent to fraud (oh, let met just rent here for a year and be in). However, the price we'd pay for those principled gains are not worth it, not at the elementary school level. They will set back exactly those who're staying put in the city and neighborhood, just looking for a bigger house, like we did, to make it all work with maybe another child or a better paying job. You've then got kids, like ours, who'd attend an elementary school for years and just about when it matters to them and the school (i.e. tests), they'd be forced to change schools because, what, they moved three blocks over? This cannot possibly be in the interest of anyone, least of them the child's.

Putting that call into the hands of the principal seems like the lesser of two evils. Short of that, you'd needs some rules to attenuate the absurdest of outcomes.[/quote]

I cannot fathom how you can say this isn't fair. You think that the few kids who move over the years are going to significantly affect test scores? Please. You, as parents, are in control over where you live. If staying in a particular school is important to you-- don't move! And yes, adding more kids to the school certainly does effect the entire school in a negative way.

Please see Oyster Adam's website which addresses this issue and indicates that this is contributing to overcrowding:
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*NOTE* Beginning in 2010-2011: All students who enter Oyster-Adams for the first time under the “in-boundary” process in 2010-2011, will risk losing their space if they move out of boundary after the beginning of the school year or in the future years. Students who move mid year will be allowed to finish the school year at Oyster-Adams but may then be asked to re-apply via the lottery for subsequent years. This is necessary to ensure manageable class sizes and to counter a documented pattern of families moving to the boundary for one year only to gain access to the school’s in-boundary status.[/i][/quote]

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