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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][quote=Anonymous]For K:

Hearst
Eaton
Murch
Lafayette
Mundo Verde
Janney 
Mann
Inspired Teaching School
Cap City
Stoddert
Hyde-Addison
EL Haynes

IB for Powell, and probably would rank it below ITS.[/quote]

Wow - and Powell is nowhere on your list.  What will you do if you (likely) get shut out and not into a single one of these schools?!?[/quote]

it's for K, therefore he/she will have the right to show up the first day of school (assume her child may be there already). [/quote]

This example seems to support an argument that families who eschew their local DCPS in the lottery, should not have the continued right to show up and enroll whenever they want. This sort of lottery playing, where your local school remains your back-up plan, but the school isn't aware, will only cause havoc on the school's budget and enrollment projections. I imagine this poster's child is already at Powell. They know they can stay, but will jump if they get a spot at any school above IT. OK, that's cool. But if you get a spot, accept it but then decide after a month or two that the commute is terrible and the school isn't all that you had hoped and you want to go back to Powell, I don't think you should be able to. That's completely unfair to school, the budget, the families who already committed, etc. These are the sort of things the boundary, feeder pattern committee is looking at. [/quote]

Completely with you.  I think if you give up your IB preference after K, you should lose your right to attend the school.  No DCPS should be a "back up plan" but a place you invest in.  It's not fair for the other children and families.[/quote]

Agreed. And I'm not picking on this particular poster...particularly since she clarified that she's not at Powell now. As she rightly pointed out, inboundary families can't "lottery" for K and above because they get in as a matter of right. But once you do make the decision to not exercise that right by enrolling in and attending another public school (DCPS or charter) you should not just be able to show up whenever you want. If you want to get back into your old local school, you should have to lottery for it as if you were OOB. [/quote]

Jeez, folks. I can't put Powell down for K! We are not at Powell. My example does not support your argument. Pick on someone else, please.[/quote]

They are simply stating that if you get in any one of the 12 schools above, you should lose your IB status.[/quote]

Agreed.[/quote]

I disagree that PP should not be able to go to Powell for 1st grade if she accepts a K place through the lottery. That's completely messed up! What if the other school is not a good fit? What if the family needs to not drive from Petworth to Cleveland Park or Brookland every morning? I understand what you guys are getting at, but suggesting that a person should not be able to go to their neighborhood school unless they start in kindergarten is completely unreasonable.[/quote]

Then they should have factored that into the lottery in the first place.[/quote]

Okay, so what you're saying is that no matter what happens, your child should stay at the school they lottery into at age 3 or 4, and if you do not commit to your neighborhood school BEFORE the K lottery, you are just screwed?

How exactly do you factor a student's changing needs into a lottery decision at age 4? How exactly do you 100% rule out a parent taking a new job (or losing an old one) that results in a wildly different commute structure? I live down 14th Street from Powell, but I work downtown. I didn't put Powell on our PK4 list, despite thinking it's a good school, because I have to go the opposite direction. If I worked in Silver Spring, though, I would absolutely put Powell on the list.

It's like you do not want to accept that circumstances and kids change, at all, and want to hold people to decisions they made when their kids were 4 years old. Also, are you sure you're talking about Powell and not, say, Janney? Because you seem really upset about a person attending a charter instead of choosing their EOTP neighborhood school that people only started being excited about last year.[/quote]

Pipe down, toots. Do you have any idea how unusual DC is with the amount of choice we have and the ability EVERY SINGLE YEAR, to change schools? In most areas on this country your local school is it, otherwise, it's private or homeschooling. So if you don't think that school is a "good fit" then you have to move, pay tuition or teach them yourself. I think what is being argued here is that if YOU CHOOSE to enroll and attend another school other than your local DCPS you have indicated that you don't want to attend the school that is assigned to your address. That's great. You're CHOICE. That doesn't mean you can't change the next year (the circumstances don't matter...whether it's logistical or philosophical). But if you suddenly want to reclaim your right to your local school you really should be required to submit enrollment documentation in the timeframe that IB children already attending are asked to, otherwise you should have lottery as if you're OOB. At first I thought people who were preaching "do away with all school assignments" were crazy, but now I'm starting to see the value in it. [/quote]

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