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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you both. So why is there a requirement to tell the school within 3 days when you exit the boundary but stay in DC? Should I fear an audit or a request for anything more than my paystub that I provided when we enrolled? Again we will still be in close walking distance to the school (no car) assuming we can get out of this terrible condo. [/quote]

It's just an arbitrary policy, there's no rhyme or reason behind why it's three days as opposed to seven or seventeen.  We moved out of bounds, informed the school and said "please update our address in the system."   They had no way of knowing if it was within 3 days or 100 days of our move.  You have to understand that there's a huge disconnect between the policy that's implemented DCPS-wide and day-to-day operations at a school.  No one at the school investigates this sort of thing and they have no interest or capacity to do so.  They have jobs and responsibilities entirely unrelated to your move.  They collect the required verification once a year at enrollment because it's done for every single student attending the school and the district provides very clear forms and procedures.  Same with the lottery and waitlist process, all centrally regulated with clear systems and procedures that schools follow.  For the unusual case of someone moving OOB within a year, they just follow the published policy and try to get back to their normal responsibilities as quickly as possible.  For the same reason, no one will care that you remain relatively close to the school, you are IB moving OOB and that's all that really matters.  You could move halfway across the city or just over the catchment boundary line, it's the same.  There's no audit, you don't resubmit your paystub until next year when you re-enroll.  There isn't even the capacity to audit this sort of thing.  The only capacity to audit that exists is for residency fraud, not boundary issues. Boundary is enforced via policy and documents rather than any sort of auditing process.[/quote]

I should add: it's possible we resubmitted a paystub to verify our new address, I don't remember for sure if they asked us to do that.  But certainly nothing more than that.
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