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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what exactly do you mean by best way? It sounds like you want some answer besides putting these schools on your lottery list every year.[/quote]

OP here.  I just wanted to know what the best options were if you didn't want to move, but yet wanted to get into a Deal feeder school.   I guess another option would be to rent out our current house for a year, and move IB to an apartment?[/quote]

You have to prove residency every year, dear.  Otherwise everyone would do what you suggested. [/quote]

So if you register one year as an inbound student, you have to re-register every year after that?[/quote]

Yes, of course.[/quote]

Except that in reality no.  In practice, schools don't kick out students because they moved elsewhere in DC.[/quote]

In the past principals had the discretion to allow students to stay until they finished in the school even though they moved . However this is supposed to go away - part of the boundary reforms.

I doubt anyone will actually be kicked out for mid-year move, but hope that the rules will be followed and students whose families move from IB to OOB wouldn't be allowed to return the next year, unless they get in through the OOB boundary process.
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OOB boundary suspended that recommendation for next year.  Only way to enforce it would be for a principal to specially have registration staff cross check addresses  Enrollment forms are automatically generated.  Your information is misleading and wrong.[/quote]

In our schoo, Murch, the registrar checks the residency requirement every year when you enroll.  If you got a spot throug lottery you are fine and that's totally legit, but I' would not count on renting an apt for a year and then moving back.  Honestly, OP you think all of us renting next to much and living in apartments are chumps.  The money would get us a lot more elsewhere, but some of us have integrity and don't want to mess with our kids education.[/quote]

Great, so if Murch is actively cross checking addresses against the official boundaries that clearly falls under the terms of principal's discretion.  I object to these people who consistently seem to show up and speak as though they are reporting DCPS policy.

This issue is usually resolved by asking for the official DCPS policy that states if you move out of boundary during the school during the year you must lottery back into the school.  I have yet to see it, because it doesn't exist.  With that said, clearly DCPS wants/needs to address it, and tried to with boundary recs but as it stands that policy will not be implemented next year so the existing (nonexistent) DCPS policy stands.  Murch is probably the exception I would guess, this is the first time I have heard of a school that is actively enforcing a policy the principal has established.  Not to say there aren't other schools, but each time this comes up, the majority of responses indicate that kicking kids of out school because they relocate within the district, isn't happening.[/quote]

This is from the Oyster website:

"*NOTE* Beginning in 2010-2011: All students who enter Oyster-Adams for the first time under the 'in-boundary' process in 2010-2011, will risk losing their space if they move out of boundary after the beginning of the school year or in the future years. Students who move mid year will be allowed to finish the school year at Oyster-Adams but may then be asked to re-apply via the lottery for subsequent years. This is necessary to ensure manageable class sizes and to counter a documented pattern of families moving to the boundary for one year only to gain access to the school’s in-boundary status."[/quote]

This is a good policy. DCPS should implement it everywhere. [/quote]

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