As long as you actually live there.

Anonymous wrote:This can become a widespread problem if there’s an influx of people who catch on to this loophole.

*wanking motion*

This can become a widespread problem if there’s an influx of people who catch on to this loophole.

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of students taking advantage of the stay until the terminal grade policy are likely mid and upper elementary school children in all wards who moved a small distance away because of a rent increase, home purchase, family/custody change, etc. and chose to stay enrolled at their established school for continuity/social reasons and not people who are gaming the system to attend Deal/JR.

And yet this is a perennial question on this board. How long do I have to rent in W3 before my pre4 kid has rights all the way through Whatever ES even when I move back to a neighborhood where I won’t use the IB school?

My kids aren’t in W3 schools but it’s pretty obvious that this is what’s going on in this OP.

So?

+1. It has been asked and answered, it's just not a satisfactory answer to DCUM. There is no minimum amount of time you have to live IB, as long as you are actually living IB and attending the IB school when the verification is made. That is for administrative simplification and public policy reasons that have nothing to do with UMC system gamers.

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of students taking advantage of the stay until the terminal grade policy are likely mid and upper elementary school children in all wards who moved a small distance away because of a rent increase, home purchase, family/custody change, etc. and chose to stay enrolled at their established school for continuity/social reasons and not people who are gaming the system to attend Deal/JR.

And yet this is a perennial question on this board. How long do I have to rent in W3 before my pre4 kid has rights all the way through Whatever ES even when I move back to a neighborhood where I won’t use the IB school?

My kids aren’t in W3 schools but it’s pretty obvious that this is what’s going on in this OP.

So?

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of students taking advantage of the stay until the terminal grade policy are likely mid and upper elementary school children in all wards who moved a small distance away because of a rent increase, home purchase, family/custody change, etc. and chose to stay enrolled at their established school for continuity/social reasons and not people who are gaming the system to attend Deal/JR.

And yet this is a perennial question on this board. How long do I have to rent in W3 before my pre4 kid has rights all the way through Whatever ES even when I move back to a neighborhood where I won’t use the IB school?

My kids aren’t in W3 schools but it’s pretty obvious that this is what’s going on in this OP.

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of students taking advantage of the stay until the terminal grade policy are likely mid and upper elementary school children in all wards who moved a small distance away because of a rent increase, home purchase, family/custody change, etc. and chose to stay enrolled at their established school for continuity/social reasons and not people who are gaming the system to attend Deal/JR.

I suspect that's not the case. *A lot* of people do it for Deal/JR purposes.

But no one has the data to really know.

I think this information should be centralized with myschooldc/osse so there could be data on it. And then it should be programmed in along with the student's ID number so the policy of not getting rights to the destination school can actually be enforced.

Did you see the metro DC thread on DC government return to office? Who exactly are going to be doing those policy changes, SOPs, IT system modifications, testing, training, and tracking? The same high grade employees who are all now job hunting because after not getting their COLA or performance bonuses this year, are now being told they need to RTO to support the local economy. So no, nobody's going to be spearheading system improvements like these. Not anytime soon under this administration at least.

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of students taking advantage of the stay until the terminal grade policy are likely mid and upper elementary school children in all wards who moved a small distance away because of a rent increase, home purchase, family/custody change, etc. and chose to stay enrolled at their established school for continuity/social reasons and not people who are gaming the system to attend Deal/JR.

I suspect that's not the case. *A lot* of people do it for Deal/JR purposes.

But no one has the data to really know.

I think this information should be centralized with myschooldc/osse so there could be data on it. And then it should be programmed in along with the student's ID number so the policy of not getting rights to the destination school can actually be enforced.

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Anonymous wrote:We are attending inboundary 5th grade renting and I wanted to do lottery for the out of boundary home I own but it said I automatically qualified for both the current sixth grade feeder and inboundary MS where I own so it didn’t even let me rank the feeder MS

Interesting, how did the application know you had the OOB home? Did you enter that information somewhere?

Yes I entered the address of the home I own to see if I could lottery into current sixth grade feeder (Deal) if we choose to move into the home we own as opposed to keep renting.

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of students taking advantage of the stay until the terminal grade policy are likely mid and upper elementary school children in all wards who moved a small distance away because of a rent increase, home purchase, family/custody change, etc. and chose to stay enrolled at their established school for continuity/social reasons and not people who are gaming the system to attend Deal/JR.

I suspect that's not the case. *A lot* of people do it for Deal/JR purposes.

But no one has the data to really know.

The vast majority of students taking advantage of the stay until the terminal grade policy are likely mid and upper elementary school children in all wards who moved a small distance away because of a rent increase, home purchase, family/custody change, etc. and chose to stay enrolled at their established school for continuity/social reasons and not people who are gaming the system to attend Deal/JR.

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Anonymous wrote:We just moved to Virginia, also Virginia requires that you paid taxes for a certain number of schools to qualify for in state tuition and VA has better colleges.

Correction: taxes for a certain number of years

For how many years?

Anonymous wrote:We just moved to Virginia, also Virginia requires that you paid taxes for a certain number of schools to qualify for in state tuition and VA has better colleges.

Correction: taxes for a certain number of years

We just moved to Virginia, also Virginia requires that you paid taxes for a certain number of schools to qualify for in state tuition and VA has better colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:You need to re establish residency every year. So not a one time thing.
I think theoretically you could rent for only one month, get the require bills and documentation to submit for residency verification. Then, never get asked again until the following year.
You could be audited though, no idea how common that is.

No, this is incorrect. If you live in the school zone on day 1 of school you get the right to stay at the school through graduation, even if you move elsewhere in DC. You do actually have to live there at some point.

PP stating that you get to stay through school's terminal grade is correct - see the handbook at p. 11.

https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/sites/dcpsenrollment/files/page_content/attachments/SY23-24%20Enrollment%20and%20Lottery%20Handbook%20FINAL.pdf

Yes, this is correct. And so stupid.

It’s not stupid. It’s good for kids to not have to change schools due to their parents having to move

No, it’s stupid because it creates perverse incentives and encourages gaming. Rent for three months, stay for seven years.

Good lord. There are many more homeless and housing unstable children in DC than UMC system gamers. The policy is written for those children, and written broadly to minimize the administrative burden on those families. If they put threshold eligibility requirements on the policy, then there would have to be a verification process that would serve as a barrier to the most needful families from using the policy as intended. DC doesn't care if a few high SES families also take advantage of the policy, because it is administratively simpler for the schools and families to make it over inclusive. And every higher SES kid that's taking a seat at your Ward 3 school is also a family that stays in DC and pays taxes instead of moving to Maryland.