Anonymous wrote:Yep, renters. There isn’t a lot of rental or less expensive housing stock, especially as kids get older and need more space and privacy. So you squeeze into a smaller space until you can’t. It might not be possible to find anything in particular bounds to rent or buy that both fits your needs and is in your budget, but does that mean your kids should have less stability in their education?

You mean like every kid outside of Ward 3 that had to lottery for a school pathway?

I'm all for tightening up admissions policies. Especially if they also get rid of the self-dealing and corruption.

Anonymous wrote:The only way they can enforce this policy is if they have records of which kids matched in the lottery OOB and which were IB preference.

Why wouldn't they have those records? They obviously have them in the lottery records.

Anonymous wrote:Another interesting point for interpretation, which has not changed from the old policy:

Where a PK-12 student has been attending an in-boundary school and then moves out of boundary while remaining in the District of Columbia, the student has the right to attend their new in-boundary school

Arguably a PK3/PK4 student who was attending a neighborhood PK program has a "right to attend" the new school's Pre-K even without applying to the new school's PK lottery. Has anyone made such a transfer?

That general text would be superseded by the more specific text re: PK lottery.

This is just the small but vocal "boundary fraud" brigade drumming up reasons to stop people from renting in the deal pyramid.

They just did a boundary review and discussed attendance rights. Nothing like the change discussed here was brought up

ugg. This is so confusing because on page 9 it says this (see number 3):
Admission Method Applicable Scenarios
By Right
1. The student’s home address is within the boundary for the school of enrollment and the
student will enroll in grades K-12. All PK3 or PK4 students must submit a My School DC
lottery application.
2. The student completed the terminal grade in a school and will enroll in the designated
geographic or programmatic feeder school entry grade. Geographic feeder pattern
rights do not extend to students who enroll as in-boundary students and then move
out of the boundary or to students who have withdrawn from an out-of-boundary
feeder pattern at any point.
3. Student is re-enrolling for the next grade in their current school.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes but the problem is that you cannot just suddenly change the policy. Lots of people rent. Lots of people relocate to DC from elsewhere. Lots of single parent families. You rent for a few years but then the rent goes up or you have saved enough to buy and the longstanding policy was such that you did not need to worry about boundaries or uproot your child.

This. Also if they are going to change the policy, then they need to change MySchool DC so that you have a chance to lottery into your current school for the next school year.

Of corse they can change the policy if they want. You have a right to go to your IB school and can so your kid changes to their IB if they are not going there. Not hard.

But if everyone in the city can play the school lottery than My School DC should be changed. Right now if you move out of bounds in the middle of the school year and you're enrolled in your old inbound school (school A) and move inbounds to a different school (school B), My school DC will not let you lottery into your current school (A). That should change

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Anonymous wrote:Yep, renters. There isn’t a lot of rental or less expensive housing stock, especially as kids get older and need more space and privacy. So you squeeze into a smaller space until you can’t. It might not be possible to find anything in particular bounds to rent or buy that both fits your needs and is in your budget, but does that mean your kids should have less stability in their education?

This is how it works for renters in every other place I've ever lived.

Not sure where you are talking about but in the burbs here kids go to their IB school, renter or not. They don’t get any special exception.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes but the problem is that you cannot just suddenly change the policy. Lots of people rent. Lots of people relocate to DC from elsewhere. Lots of single parent families. You rent for a few years but then the rent goes up or you have saved enough to buy and the longstanding policy was such that you did not need to worry about boundaries or uproot your child.

This. Also if they are going to change the policy, then they need to change MySchool DC so that you have a chance to lottery into your current school for the next school year.

Of corse they can change the policy if they want. You have a right to go to your IB school and can so your kid changes to their IB if they are not going there. Not hard.

Yes and if they want to go somewhere else, they can play the lottery just like everyone else in the city.

Anonymous wrote:Yep, renters. There isn’t a lot of rental or less expensive housing stock, especially as kids get older and need more space and privacy. So you squeeze into a smaller space until you can’t. It might not be possible to find anything in particular bounds to rent or buy that both fits your needs and is in your budget, but does that mean your kids should have less stability in their education?

This is how it works for renters in every other place I've ever lived.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes but the problem is that you cannot just suddenly change the policy. Lots of people rent. Lots of people relocate to DC from elsewhere. Lots of single parent families. You rent for a few years but then the rent goes up or you have saved enough to buy and the longstanding policy was such that you did not need to worry about boundaries or uproot your child.

This. Also if they are going to change the policy, then they need to change MySchool DC so that you have a chance to lottery into your current school for the next school year.

Of corse they can change the policy if they want. You have a right to go to your IB school and can so your kid changes to their IB if they are not going there. Not hard.

Anonymous wrote:Yes but the problem is that you cannot just suddenly change the policy. Lots of people rent. Lots of people relocate to DC from elsewhere. Lots of single parent families. You rent for a few years but then the rent goes up or you have saved enough to buy and the longstanding policy was such that you did not need to worry about boundaries or uproot your child.

This. Also if they are going to change the policy, then they need to change MySchool DC so that you have a chance to lottery into your current school for the next school year.

Yes but the problem is that you cannot just suddenly change the policy. Lots of people rent. Lots of people relocate to DC from elsewhere. Lots of single parent families. You rent for a few years but then the rent goes up or you have saved enough to buy and the longstanding policy was such that you did not need to worry about boundaries or uproot your child.

This will be easy to enforce each year during re-enrollment. Just as MySchool can identify your in-bound school when you plug in your address, they can add that same feature to the enrollment process. If identified as out of bounds, you won't be able to re-enroll unless you come in through lottery.

Anonymous wrote:What about the right to attend the MS that your ES feeds to?

NP. Because #3 is fraud and #2 isn't.