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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i think this applies only if you were admitted OOB to begin with, and move, still OOB.  If you are IB and move OOB, you lose your spot and you lose your feeder rights. [/quote]

That's nuts.  Why should OOB students be perpetually protected and grandfathered in, no matter where they live, while neighborhood kids would lose their rights to attend their community school if they move OOB?  It should be consistent across the board.[/quote]

Because it's not their community school anymore if they move OOB. Classroom projections are based on surveys of the neighborhood. If you could spend one year, or even just a few months, at an IB address and then move with impunity, it renders boundaries almost meaningless. Everyone would rent IB at the best school and move to a cheaper location as soon as they're enrolled. [/quote]

Boundaries are already meaningless -- 75% of kids in DC don't go to an in-boundary school.

The classroom projection argument is an even bigger argument against perpetual protection for OOB kids. How does the system have any ability to plan if a kid who wins the pre-k lottery this year is guaranteed a seat at specific schools until 2028? [/quote]

I'm not sure how you figure that. The school determines how many seats are available in the PS/PK lottery; once kids are in, ongoing feeder rights make their path MORE predictable than if they had to relottery at key transition points.

And as transient as DC is, IB kids are not as predictable as you might think. My daughter's classroom last year was more crowded than expected because of IB kids -- it just happened that several kids in her grade moved into the neighborhood. One of them is gone already (moved overseas), and another likely will move overseas next year. So it's not like the IB population of any given school is a perfect model of predictability.[/quote]

How can survey adjust for my family? Not using our IB elementary (our spot will presumably be given to an OOB kid). But we plan to go to our IB middle and high school, as will the OOB kid that took our Elementary spot.[/quote]

Or that OOB student may move or go to a charter or private for middle school.

Demographers build all of that into their models. But they cannot make the political leadership redraw the lines, which is really what is needed to address overcrowding. [/quote]

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