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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD will be starting PreK 3 this fall and starting Kindergarten in Fall of 2025, which is when the new boundaries are expected to be implemented (assuming no delays in the process). If we are impacted by boundary changes, my understanding is that we will not be grandfathered into our former inbounds school. That aspect to the rule seems unfair because I completed my lottery rankings knowing that I was guaranteed entry into my inbounds school for Kindergarten. I would have thought through and ranked my list completely differently if I was in a different inbounds school district. For reference, I ranked my inbounds school first on my list, but it is near impossible to get into it w/out a sibling.

Anyone else in this boat? Not sure there is much I can do about it, but just feels extremely unfair given Prek3 is the best opportunity to get into schools outside of your "by right" school. I guess I'm hoping they will reconsider the policy on grandfathering to account for Prek3 families who didn't have the opportunity to participate in the lottery with knowledge of a different inbounds school. [/quote]

Doesn't seem "extremely unfair" to me. PK is a luxury not a privilege. It's not a mandatory grade. There are wards in the city without PK programs at all. Buying a house based on a feeder pattern is not a particularly smart idea. Boundaries change. Schools close or going into an inconvenient swing space. Your kid might enter a lottery in an easier year because of a baby boom. Racial profiling is extremely unfair. Women not being able to control their reproductive healthcare is extremely unfair. Esme Blythe or Jagger Alix having to go to Key instead of Hearst is life in a major city. [/quote]

Perhaps I shouldn't have said "extremely", but in your rash judgment you missed my point. I am grateful for the numerous ECE programs in my community and I know that my daughter will be just fine wherever she ends up for PK. I'm not complaining about where DD goes for PK, I was pointing out that PreK 3 lottery is when you typically have the best chances of getting into elementary schools outside of your by right school. It seems unfair to not account for that in the "grandfathering" process when they change the by right schools associated with an address for families that have already gone through the lottery process.  [/quote]

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