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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an insane idea. If you want to further fragment any sense of community at DC schools, encourage people to flee to charters (which don't have these rules), and pretty much unfairly penalize renters over home owners (because renters may not always be able to stay in boundary, if their house is sold, if their neighborhood gentrifies, etc), then go right ahead. It will make minimal difference on whether your three-year old gets in to IB PreK, which I know is what you're actually bitter about. It will be very, very disruptive to a lot of people, most of them poorer than you.

New York, as an example, would NEVER, ever do this. Once you're IB there, you're IB. Does that mean people rent an apartment for a year to get into a school? Yes, sometimes it does. Some people do that. It also means that many, many more families get to continue supporting their old neighborhood school no matter where in the city life takes them. As an example, at our old Brooklyn school, nearly every member of the PTA lived OOB. Most of them had started IB, but rising rents sent them all into Bed Stuy and Crown Heights, Flatbush and ENY. Our school still had a fantastic community, the likes of which I have never seen at a DCPS.

With the lottery every year, and everyone always trying for the next best thing, your schools have too much churn as it is. Why are you adding to it? [/quote]

There are only a handful of schools that have wait lists for OOB students. Those schools are overcrowded and need to control their numbers. Therefore they need to enforce the rules about boundaries. Many many more schools do not have this problem and You can easily attend from OOB. I suggest you try one of those. [/quote]

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