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[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]

I am sorry but that is ridiculous. The whole idea behind a neighborhood system is so that everyone DOES have a back-up school at any and all times in a kid's academic career. That is the way it should be![/quote]

Do you have any idea how planning and budgeting works? Would you be happy if 20 additional and unexpected inboundary children showed up at your child's school the first day of school and suddenly the 20:1 ratio in your child's class was 30:1? Please think about that.  [/quote]

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