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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A number of relevant issues aren't addressed in the OSSE rules on school residency, or DCPS policy either.

- We're a multi-generational family moving between two houses we own in our neighborhood, half a mile apart. Our family members spend time at both houses almost every day.

-The city has never hassled us about using one house or the other for residency, tax filings etc., but there was a parent initiated attempt to "bust" us.

I'd be really glad to see the rules firmed up for the common good.

I don't agree that schools would be better if everyone "stayed home." Most high SES parents will move or go private before they'll send their children to schools they aren't comfortable with, which doesn't help poor kids in DC. I'm tired of seeing friends who loved a DCPS or charter school in the lower grades, and got involved in the PTA, bail for VA or MD by 3rd or 4th grade.[/quote]

Or you put an end to the endless boundary cheating and maybe you are able to cluster enough higher SES populations in clusters east of the park to get another set or two of high performing schools.

And part of how you accomplish that is you lift up (or relocate if you want to be un PC) some of the kids from lower performing schools by giving the scarce WOTP slots to them instead of to upper middle class kids.

I went through my JKLM kids directory last night as most of the OOB kids are from Mt Pleasant, Georgetown, Columbia Heights and oddly other WOTP neighborhoods.

If those OOB kids were replaced by lower performing kids from EOTP while the higher performing kids were successfully clustered in actual EOTP schools you'd get some averaging of the schools and lots of privileged kids (and more importantly their parents) would actually be exposed to some actual economic and ethnic diversity at school which currently an awful lot of folks are finding ways to avoid.

The current practices benefit some individuals but don't net out to benefiting the system as a whole and leave a cohort of left behind kids in schools with incredible odds against success because of their low SES mix but in a city with more and more middle class families there is no excuse for not doing a better job getting more diverse and successful schools.

And yes I am a WOTP parent but I do think bringing in some disadvantaged kids would be an additional but reasonable burden to those privileged schools hence giving us some skin in the game but it is ridiculous to have schools bursting at the seems to accommodate middle class familes gaming the system rather than kids who actually need a boost.[/quote]

Most schools WOTP do have 7-10%+ economically disadvantaged plus other at at risk students. Only Janney is at an untenable 1%.[/quote]

Right - but Janney does still have a contingent of OOB.  And I presume the other WOTP schools also have a contingent of OOB middle class kids?  Middle class kids should not have access to the OOB slots at WOTP schools.[/quote]

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