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Woman goes to jail for lying about her residency to send kids to better school
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Anonymous
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I love this article. Is it really a Rosa Parks' moment for education. I surely hope so.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/30/AR2011013003556.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 |
Anonymous
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For the poster who wrote about the MD tags, I have NC tags and drop my kids off everyday. You better believe that I live in DC, pay DC taxes and my kids go to a DC charter school. Just because you don't have DC tags does not mean that you don't live in DC.
I don't know how people game the system and live in MD and their kids go to school in DC. I had a hard time filling out the residency forms and I live in DC. It's not as easy as it used to be. |
Anonymous
I believe it was a female judge and she wanted to make a model of her to deter others. They really need to spend their energy and sentencing on violent criminals! |
Anonymous
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How else do you enforce segregation on a modern level except thru school districting? I hadn't given much thought to property taxes paying for better levels of schools until my non-American DH wondered aloud.
We take for granted the idea that we have better public schools in higher property taxed neighborhoods throughout the country. (We earned it, right?) We also assume that in the poorer areas, the education level is low and bad? In a democracy, why don't we have comparable education in ALL neighborhoods? So most of the poor kids will remain in that demographic for generations to come. |
Anonymous
Um, you do know that you're supposed to change your license/tags/registration within 30 days of moving here, right? That's pretty standard policy everywhere in the U.S. |
Anonymous
| I love how the voice of white middle class parents try and camouflage their own lies by talking about how we all pay the same taxes, etc...yes, we should all look the other way when kids who come from familes who have no other decent options enroll in a desirable school (think Deal), but what about the hordes of OOB well-off (often white) folk are scamming for the same spots? Isn't another kid from the "projects" missing out when we better off parents fake an address for our own? |
Anonymous
| It gets even more complicated. I live in Brookland. I am white and every white parent I talk to says no way they are going to send their kids to be the only white kid in the school. I have said it myself. But we are part of the problem, same as the Key parent that are so afraid of their kids going to school with kids a Hardy. But I have to be honest these schools are not exactly socially welcoming to white parents. Many view us as interlopers gentrifying thier neighborhoods so we are all at a draw. None of us have the schools we want. We scramble to get a few slots in a few desirable schools west of the park or on the hill or at a charter. The reality is that until we desegregate our communities and schools effective change will be elusive for all of us, but will really hurt those that are poor the most. Not sure that is the world I envisioned bequething my child. |
Anonymous
Please re-state in a manner that makes sense. Your point is clear as mud. |
Anonymous
| I had a friend this happened to here. A "mean (DCUM?)" mom ratted her out to a neighbor who was a teacher at the school in question. MoCo has investigators that followed the child home to prove she lived out of district. The family had to get a lawyer and ended up moving to a tiny condo in the district so that the kid could stay in the school. No jail time though. |
Anonymous
| PP, ratting out for out of state is one thing, that is technically stealing as tuition out of state of thousands of $$. The previous post to you refers to in-DC families taking OOB slots at desirable schools by using an address where they don't really reside. To clarify from the "mud", we all agree spots in desirable schools should certainly go to needier families. Parents who aren't so needy point to this an excuse for cover, if no one rats out OOB families who have no other worthy options then no one will rat out middle class families who do have options but choose to take a spot for their own as well. For example, I know plenty of OOB families who are well off, and don't actually reside in boundary of their desired schools yet their kids attend. I wouldn't report them for the sake of their child, and also for the sake of the more desperate families who really have no better choice for their kids. There is no answer, just a lot of inequity. |
Anonymous
| I used to work for DCPS and when Arlene Ackerman was the Superintendent, she was vigilant to curtail such practices. But when she was about to pounce on those who violated the residency rule, the long-hand of politics got involved. So, it went away like a bad smell, all of sudden people were waiving away the problem. Is this an extreme case, in my opinion yes. |
Anonymous
| It's extreme when it's non-DC residents. Even then, I knew a DCPS principal who was aware after the school year was well under way and kept it quiet, after advising the family they had the rest of the SY to make arrangements that comply with the law. The OOB issue in DC bites, though, since the handful of schools that are really great can't possibly house every student in the city and it seems as if the few OOB spots really SHOULD go to families who are socio-economically disadvantaged. |
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Anonymous
| I hope she turns Akron,Ohio upside down. Like Rosa Parks did. |
Anonymous
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I think this is so sad.
I am a mother who understands this situation all to well. I am praying for this family and other who will encounter the same thing. This is so very sad. Lord please help us. We need you now!! |