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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not just about WOTP schools. Which seems to be the point you are deliberately not understanding. It is about keeping communities at EOTP schools. We're zoned IB for Deal and I don't want to send my kids there because it's so crowded. So I do understand that some schools are overcrowded. That's why "principal discretion" works. A blanket rule enforcing this stuff in areas that don't actually need it is not going to help anyone. [/quote]

Can you provide an example, with specific schools? Ross has a s-load of IB families at a very small school, so a handful of families who move out of IB is not going to hurt their community one whit. [b]What are some other examples? I know a LOT of families EOTP who are attending rising EOTP schools - Powell, Seaton, West - but they have all lotteried in from OOB and can move wherever they like.[/b][/quote]

Uh, no.  The boundary changes moved quite a lot of people to new schools.  We're one family that got into Powell with IB preference and now we're zoned for Bruce Monroe.  Others just a few blocks from us are now zoned for Barnard or Raymond.  I know a family that moved into our neighborhood specifically to get into Powell (for a kid who's not yet school aged) and now they're OOB by just one block.

I agree with the former New Yorker.  It's kinda weird to see people from areas that were screaming last year during the boundary process about property values, community, and maintaining continuity for your kids  - now saying that those things aren't really that important.  You were able to maintain it in Ward 3, but all that's been tossed aside EOTP.

And, IIUC the new rules correctly, OOB students do not get feeder rights to the next school.  [/quote]

Incorrect. OOB feeder rights continue.[/quote]

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