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Kenwood Academy often makes house calls to verify students' residency — a practice some parents call invasive

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Kenwood Academy High School says it conducts about 150 home visits a year. Principal Karen Calloway said it's school policy to visit the homes of all incoming neighborhood students who are registering. Parents describe officials entering their child's bedroom and surveying the art on the walls or clothes in the closet.

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Kenwood Academy often makes house calls to verify students' residency — a practice some parents call invasive

Kenwood officials defended the steps they take to ensure students enrolling in the highly sought-after school actually live in its attendance boundaries — especially in the wake of residency violations that left several members of the school's basketball team ineligible to play.

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