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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IOW, paying income taxes gets you into a DC school, but it is your residence (which determines your property taxes) that determines which school you may attend.  At least charters disambiguate the two.

In any event, any school you would actually want to enroll your child in (either DCPS or charter) most likely has a waiting list.  By law, you can attend as long as you pay tuition.  However, you should be aware that your position on the waitlist will - by law - be subordinate to the position of any DC resident, even one who signed up after you.

[b]It's effectively impossible to attend a desirable DC public school (DCPS or Charter) from outside the District, despite a willingness to pay tuition.  You'll always come in last place on the priority list, and all the good (even some of the mediocre) schools have lists.[/b][/quote]

While this bolded part makes sense, I am skeptical if DCPS schools are operating as they should.  My DC is at Banneker HS, and she says she has a friend who says parents pay tuition to attend Banneker because they are not DC residents.  Banneker is an application school, and they take about 100 new students every year.  I am sure there are more than 100 applicants every year, because there are many students who get rejected.  So, if a non-DC resident is on the lowest priority for admission, how did my DC's friend get in to Banneker?  Shouldn't those DC resident students get accepted before the non-resident student, regardless of their willingness to pay tuition?  This will only make sense if there are less than 100 applicants to begin with, say only 95 applicants, and the remaining 5 seats can be filled by non-residents who are willing to pay tuition.  Can someone crack the code on this one, because I feel like I am missing a point.  [/quote]

I love how [b]everyoneo n this board thinks they know every scenario possible[/b].  As explained upthread, there are other ways to explain this.  Your DC's classmate could have entered Banneker as a DC resident and then the parents could have moved out of state the following year, that student already has his spot and can keep it by paying tuition.[/quote]

And that "everyone" includes you, right?  You came up with a possible scenario on this one.  But what if I told you that the non-resident student was a non-resident to begin with?  Because she is.  From the very beginning of application, she was already a non-resident.  That's why it pauses a question for me.  [/quote]

Since Banneker is application based, it does not have the same requirements as other neighborhood schools so this scenario is possible.  If you have an issue with it, why not bring it to the school rather than the passive aggressive display on DCUM?[/quote]

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