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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have lived in this city for 30 of my 36 years and my parents for a long time before that and we were shut out of every pk3 program we applied for. The shock has now turned to anger. I'm so disgusted with this process.it just burns me up that someone can just move into my neighborhood on a whim, work in VA or MD while I work for the city, and shut my DC out while I keep paying taxes for their DC to go to FREE pk. I'm so burned up over this.

I just had to get that off my chest.

A few questions:
1. Last year my understanding was that only a few in-boundary families got turned away from the in-boundary school. However, this year our waitlist number is enormous! How are there so many (30+) new children at my in-boundary school?
2. Does DCPS release a list of addresses in order of lottery number for a given school?
3. How do we track waitlist movement at a given school? [/quote]

You are rightly pissed off. I can't tell you the number of MD plates drop off kids at EL Haynes everyday as I'm driving by on my way to work. There are so many ways for people to cheat the system. I was told by 3 people that they rented basement apartments in upper NW to get their kids into Murch b/c they were in-bounds and then let the leases go as soon as they were enrolled. Others use their friends' addresses. [/quote]

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