Rules are rules. Which is why they have a hardship exception. Say you were in a foreign country trying to better your life, the school you attended shut down, and another family took you in and you enrolled in the school for which you were zoned. Again, if the DC does not grant an exception based on the situation (and an inordinate amount of whining), that will not be the last say in the matter. We will have to wait and see how it unfolds...