Yes this is allowed and we considered doing it for Ross (We live in Shaw.) Ultimately we decided to stay at our IB and ended up being really happy here 5 years later... There are so many benefits to attending your own IB school. We feel very connected to the community and my kids love being able to walk a couple blocks to see their friends. I have to think this will make the social aspect of school (which is significant!) much much harder for your kid. Don't discount it.

my question is the reality of situation . the policy states what it states

Anonymous wrote:you mean they dont send you back to the IB school you belong at

so you report the change of address honestly and hope that the enrollment rolls through for the OB school the follwing year ?

Did you even read the policy that was copied and pasted DIRECTLY above you?

you mean they dont send you back to the IB school you belong at

so you report the change of address honestly and hope that the enrollment rolls through for the OB school the follwing year ?

The policy: https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/sites/dcpsenrollment/files/page_content/attachments/SY22-23%20Enrollment%20and%20Lottery%20Handbook%20FINAL_0.pdf

Moving Out of Boundary After Enrolling

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. The student may also continue to attend the current school through the end of the school’s terminal grade. All families are required to notify the school of any change of residence within three (3)
school days of such change.

After the terminal grade, the student has the right to attend the in-boundary school assigned for their next grade based on their home address and can apply to schools outside of the boundary via the My School DC lottery. They will lose their right to attend their old in-boundary feeder school and will need to use the My School DC lottery to apply as an out-of-boundary student to attend that school. For
information on options where a student moves out of the District of Columbia, see page 34.


The catch is that they don't actually send you back to your IB feeder school after the terminal grade. Everyone enrolled gets processed to enroll in the feeder school, since these are the only students that wouldn't have feeder rights, and apparently it's such a tiny percentage that it doesn't matter to OSSE. Or they just don't bother because DC government.

Anonymous wrote:if you live in a place during registration adn then move to DC OOB do you have to put the old IB address on the application every year or be honest and put your OOB address?

Per the policy, you have to report the change of address to the school within a short window of time. A few days maybe? Then I guess it depends on their IT systems how your enrollment is coded - OOB, IB, IB-OOB. Who knows.

if you live in a place during registration adn then move to DC OOB do you have to put the old IB address on the application every year or be honest and put your OOB address?

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Anonymous wrote:What's rational about DC public schools, with almost half the students in charters, feeder school rights on a par with in-boundary rights since Michelle Rhee, no formal GT programs, criminally weak special ed, Taj Mahal renovations of mostly empty MS and HS buildings, Deal built for 1,000 with 1,800 students etc. etc.

No wonder so many parents still bail for the burbs and interest in DC public schools has tapered off since the pandemic began.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc

The renovations of the half empty MS and HS are to support a new population of residents as DC continues to flip/gentrify.

DC resident here. The schools are not attracting middle class families since the renovations were done and continues not to attract these families.

Reality is no one is going to send their kid to a poorly performing MS or HS no matter how shiny and new the building is.

This. Brookland middle and Dunbar are perfect examples. New buildings, underemployed and neither it attracting UMC families. Especially in Brookland

Wells seems to be doing well.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, it’s the policy and it is stupid. But that’s CO for you.

Bonus that it advantages people with more money.

It actually advantages housing unstable children that may be moving multiple times a year, every year. If those kids can have one less disruption acts destabilizing event in their lives, then the policy is accomplishing it’s goal. It’s a right instead of principal discretion so that administrators can’t push out the higher needs kids in schools very far away from Ward 3.

You could easily link the policy to at-risk eligibility to account for these situations. But thinking things through is beyond the abilities of DCPS central office.

What about domestic violence situations, etc? What message are you sending when other families know Larlo must be poor because HE got to stay when the family moved? It is more equitable policy to establish universal policies that don’t draw lines between different groups. DC implemented the policy knowing it would be utilized by some higher SES families, but made a cost-benefit analysis in favor of protecting at-risk families. You can criticize if you want, but I like living in a city that puts social welfare first. It’s a good policy and can make a meaningful difference in the lives of kids who really need it. And frankly, also helps level the playing field a little when your child’s education comes down to the luck of a lottery draw.

Level the playing field how? By gaming the system?

It’s a written policy. It’s not gaming anything even if you say it over again.

Trying to clarify what you meant. So you think having this policy where you can move for a few months in K and stay through the terminal year of the school “levels the playing field” for people who were not able to use the lottery to get into the school OOB.

But doesn’t it actually just advantage folks who struck out in the lottery and have the means to pay double rent or a mortgage plus rent? So you’re really not leveling the playing field, you’re further advantaging folks who are wealthy.

Oh well. Too bad that’s the policy.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, it’s the policy and it is stupid. But that’s CO for you.

Bonus that it advantages people with more money.

It actually advantages housing unstable children that may be moving multiple times a year, every year. If those kids can have one less disruption acts destabilizing event in their lives, then the policy is accomplishing it’s goal. It’s a right instead of principal discretion so that administrators can’t push out the higher needs kids in schools very far away from Ward 3.

You could easily link the policy to at-risk eligibility to account for these situations. But thinking things through is beyond the abilities of DCPS central office.

What about domestic violence situations, etc? What message are you sending when other families know Larlo must be poor because HE got to stay when the family moved? It is more equitable policy to establish universal policies that don’t draw lines between different groups. DC implemented the policy knowing it would be utilized by some higher SES families, but made a cost-benefit analysis in favor of protecting at-risk families. You can criticize if you want, but I like living in a city that puts social welfare first. It’s a good policy and can make a meaningful difference in the lives of kids who really need it. And frankly, also helps level the playing field a little when your child’s education comes down to the luck of a lottery draw.

Level the playing field how? By gaming the system?

It’s a written policy. It’s not gaming anything even if you say it over again.

Trying to clarify what you meant. So you think having this policy where you can move for a few months in K and stay through the terminal year of the school “levels the playing field” for people who were not able to use the lottery to get into the school OOB.

But doesn’t it actually just advantage folks who struck out in the lottery and have the means to pay double rent or a mortgage plus rent? So you’re really not leveling the playing field, you’re further advantaging folks who are wealthy.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:What's rational about DC public schools, with almost half the students in charters, feeder school rights on a par with in-boundary rights since Michelle Rhee, no formal GT programs, criminally weak special ed, Taj Mahal renovations of mostly empty MS and HS buildings, Deal built for 1,000 with 1,800 students etc. etc.

No wonder so many parents still bail for the burbs and interest in DC public schools has tapered off since the pandemic began.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc

The renovations of the half empty MS and HS are to support a new population of residents as DC continues to flip/gentrify.

DC resident here. The schools are not attracting middle class families since the renovations were done and continues not to attract these families.

Reality is no one is going to send their kid to a poorly performing MS or HS no matter how shiny and new the building is.

This. Brookland middle and Dunbar are perfect examples. New buildings, underemployed and neither it attracting UMC families. Especially in Brookland

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's rational about DC public schools, with almost half the students in charters, feeder school rights on a par with in-boundary rights since Michelle Rhee, no formal GT programs, criminally weak special ed, Taj Mahal renovations of mostly empty MS and HS buildings, Deal built for 1,000 with 1,800 students etc. etc.

No wonder so many parents still bail for the burbs and interest in DC public schools has tapered off since the pandemic began.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc

The renovations of the half empty MS and HS are to support a new population of residents as DC continues to flip/gentrify.

But parents with options will NEVER send their kids to school where most attendees perform below grade level. So the schools stay empty.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, it’s the policy and it is stupid. But that’s CO for you.

Bonus that it advantages people with more money.

It actually advantages housing unstable children that may be moving multiple times a year, every year. If those kids can have one less disruption acts destabilizing event in their lives, then the policy is accomplishing it’s goal. It’s a right instead of principal discretion so that administrators can’t push out the higher needs kids in schools very far away from Ward 3.

Obvious to anyone (intelligent) who’s given this two seconds of thought. A group that does not include transplants who rolled into town two weeks ago to Karen-voice us with how things are done everywhere else in the country.

New York City (which is no stranger to students with housing instability) has a policy of letting homeless children attend the school they were in before becoming homeless if desired. There are ways around this issue that aren’t as drastic as allowing someone who moved to a rental for a few months in K to have rights to a certain school feeder pattern for years. This policy contributes to overcrowding of certain schools and disincentivizes those who actually invest in a particular area of DC.

Cry more about it.

Also: “invest” lol

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Anonymous wrote:What's rational about DC public schools, with almost half the students in charters, feeder school rights on a par with in-boundary rights since Michelle Rhee, no formal GT programs, criminally weak special ed, Taj Mahal renovations of mostly empty MS and HS buildings, Deal built for 1,000 with 1,800 students etc. etc.

No wonder so many parents still bail for the burbs and interest in DC public schools has tapered off since the pandemic began.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc

The renovations of the half empty MS and HS are to support a new population of residents as DC continues to flip/gentrify.

DC resident here. The schools are not attracting middle class families since the renovations were done and continues not to attract these families.

Reality is no one is going to send their kid to a poorly performing MS or HS no matter how shiny and new the building is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it’s the policy and it is stupid. But that’s CO for you.

Bonus that it advantages people with more money.

It actually advantages housing unstable children that may be moving multiple times a year, every year. If those kids can have one less disruption acts destabilizing event in their lives, then the policy is accomplishing it’s goal. It’s a right instead of principal discretion so that administrators can’t push out the higher needs kids in schools very far away from Ward 3.

Obvious to anyone (intelligent) who’s given this two seconds of thought. A group that does not include transplants who rolled into town two weeks ago to Karen-voice us with how things are done everywhere else in the country.

New York City (which is no stranger to students with housing instability) has a policy of letting homeless children attend the school they were in before becoming homeless if desired. There are ways around this issue that aren’t as drastic as allowing someone who moved to a rental for a few months in K to have rights to a certain school feeder pattern for years. This policy contributes to overcrowding of certain schools and disincentivizes those who actually invest in a particular area of DC.