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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Thanks, but we actually live IB for a highly desirable school and aren't planning on moving. I don't give a rat's ass for myself--but I have personal experience (which most of you do not) with a system that successfully does NOT do this, and it works. It works great. Since coming to DC I have been shocked at how even at a highly desirable school, there's so much churn and instability.

I'm going to chalk it up to the same brilliant minds in this city that gave us the underground parking garages, the tests that take 9 months to score, the one-year principal contracts, the lack of any bussing or transit options for the charter schools they approve (or crossing guards. Every day I drive by an intersection that has 4 charters on it, and another one block away. The cars are all going 25, and I have never seen a crossing guard). I realize that you're upset about Janney. Poor, poor Janney. What this policy will actually hurt is schools like Powell, West and Bancroft. Tubman. Cooke. The bedrock of their community families erode, and being replaced in the neighborhood with people who are too high-SES to go to those schools. Oh, I know, but now you'll tell me it's not an issue, because "OOB slots! They'll have plenty!" So every year a family has to roll the dice to see if they can continue at a school? For all of their kids? And, furthermore, you're willing to employ a whole host of people to investigate them for possible residence fraud?

Sometimes I think you don't deserve public schools. I'm sorry, but I get kind of frustrated.  [/quote]

Sounds like you need to go private.[/quote]

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