Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're from Korea. Our kids are in the early childhood grades. You guys are wrong, their aren't a lot of E Asian families any of the DCPS CH elementary schools. We had the rounds and asked. But there are more than 4 or 5 years ago, yea.

Yes, the thread should return to J-R issues. The petty game to out Capitol Hill address cheaters people dislike doesn't interest us.

Uhm, why would boundary fraud at J-R be a subject worthy of discussion but not the same in CH?

[Anonymous]

Because some of the CH posts are designed to out individual families while the J-R posts have been general. I'm not crazy about posts targeting individuals on DCUM wherever I find them and will report them to Jeff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because some of the CH posts are designed to out individual families while the J-R posts have been general. I'm not crazy about posts targeting individuals on DCUM wherever I find them and will report them to Jeff.

And why did you have to indicate you were Korean before objecting to outing CH families who publicly commit boundary fraud?

[Anonymous]

Because you seem to have me confused with somebody else. If you think that a family is "publicly committing" boundary fraud in your neighborhood and that bothers you, shouldn't you report them to DCPS rather than trying to out them on DCUM? Find a new hobby, please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because you seem to have me confused with somebody else. If you think that a family is "publicly committing" boundary fraud in your neighborhood and that bothers you, shouldn't you report them to DCPS rather than trying to out them on DCUM? Find a new hobby, please.

Who do I have you confused with? I responded directly to a post where a PP said they were Korean. You then responded to me as if you were them. If u have you confused with someone, it’s because you implied you were someone. I am not the person who originally posted about them, FWIW. I just confirmed that they life on my street and have moved on to residency fraud (which is unquestionably illegal).

[Anonymous]

NP. I see that Jeff took down a bunch of posts last night. Don't throw rocks in glass houses, people.

My car is unquestionably illegally parked outside, while my dog has illegally drifted over to an adjoining lot to do his business on an illegally built patio. This summer, I illegally planted vegetables in my street box behind an illegally built low fence I built there.

What a great thing that my neighbors mind their own business.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here... I'm finding this all highly entertaining that I've gotten so many of you so worked up yet you're worried about the energy I'm wasting on this. To the person saving their MySchoolDC emails worried about "people like me"... my child also attends an out-of-boundary school "in the fancy part of town" - a spot that earned through the lottery as well. I am well aware that there are perfectly legitimate ways to attend a school outside of your boundary school. What I didn't like most about how this family handled things was the child and family walked around loudly telling everyone that they won a lottery spot to Jackson Reed, as if the data on whether that has happened at that school isn't publicly available to all. I know plenty of folks who have gamed the system, never thinking that I needed to report a thing, as I don't have the holier-than-thou attitude that you all think I do. It was this particular situation and this family's boldness that made me want to speak up. And to an early poster who asked if I want them to see this... well, I highly doubt they're on this forum, but yes I would definitely love them to know that they've spent years telling the same boldface lie but they didn't fool everyone.

OP, do you care that your actions will harm a child who has made friends and joined activities and built relationships at this school? They may be needlessly bold and who knows whether they are telling the truth, but you lack empathy for a child! You should feel ashamed. I don’t think I could live with my own moral compass if I took a direct and needless action to emotionally (or physically of course) harm a child.

Why would OP be ashamed? It’s the parents that put the child in this situation. Personally I would not report them barring some extreme circumstance, but the parents are the ones who created the risk and harm.

Someone else’s wrong does not absolve OP of his/her own active choices potentially causing harm to a child. I say potentially bc it’s unclear whether any fraud has been committed at all or if anything will happen after OP’s report.

Oh just stop. Nobody is “hurting” the child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. I see that Jeff took down a bunch of posts last night. Don't throw rocks in glass houses, people.

My car is unquestionably illegally parked outside, while my dog has illegally drifted over to an adjoining lot to do his business on an illegally built patio. This summer, I illegally planted vegetables in my street box behind an illegally built low fence I built there.

What a great thing that my neighbors mind their own business.

Weird because my car is parked legally, I follow laws regarding dogs on leashes and cleaning up dog poop, I think laws about exterior structures are important to prevent injuries and accidents, and I am not a fan of people colonizing street boxes because that's a public good, not your yard. Why not just grow vegetables in your yard?

If I was your neighbor I don't know if I'd report you (may not be worth the trouble) but I'd for sure hate you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here… really, y’all? I assume all of you commit boundary fraud yourselves then? The public school situation in DC is really hard and my family follows the rules and so many others do too, and sometimes this means going to school that might not be the best ones, just because everyone can’t just help themselves to whatever they want in life can they? If we live in a society that chooses to just let people break rules for their own selfish benefit then what’s the point of any rules?

Sorry everyone’s jumping on you OP. I mean these people clearly did just help themselves to whatever, and part of the risk they assumed was that I might be a temporary situation because they might be turned in. No one forced them to cheat. Also unfair to everyone else who made sacrifices to buy a house in the school district that was right for them.

Right, right, terribly unfair. So what's to be done? You could always vote with your feet to a school district where nobody needs to fudge in on residency to stick around because schools are pretty good across the board. Sounds like the perfect place for you.

You could even get away from the holier than the aggressive than thou nutters on this thread!

Meh, cheaters are everywhere, and the rich ones are the worst. I know a very affluent family that lied about their address to send their kids to a school they considered marginally better and more convenient. And the type of family that believes they can use their “vacation home” address justifiable is the type of family that will feel entitled in other areas as well. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I see that Jeff took down a bunch of posts last night. Don't throw rocks in glass houses, people.

My car is unquestionably illegally parked outside, while my dog has illegally drifted over to an adjoining lot to do his business on an illegally built patio. This summer, I illegally planted vegetables in my street box behind an illegally built low fence I built there.

What a great thing that my neighbors mind their own business.

Weird because my car is parked legally, I follow laws regarding dogs on leashes and cleaning up dog poop, I think laws about exterior structures are important to prevent injuries and accidents, and I am not a fan of people colonizing street boxes because that's a public good, not your yard. Why not just grow vegetables in your yard?

If I was your neighbor I don't know if I'd report you (may not be worth the trouble) but I'd for sure hate you.

The low fence all around a tree box is a big mobility/disability issue. Don’t be a jerk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here… really, y’all? I assume all of you commit boundary fraud yourselves then? The public school situation in DC is really hard and my family follows the rules and so many others do too, and sometimes this means going to school that might not be the best ones, just because everyone can’t just help themselves to whatever they want in life can they? If we live in a society that chooses to just let people break rules for their own selfish benefit then what’s the point of any rules?

Sorry everyone’s jumping on you OP. I mean these people clearly did just help themselves to whatever, and part of the risk they assumed was that I might be a temporary situation because they might be turned in. No one forced them to cheat. Also unfair to everyone else who made sacrifices to buy a house in the school district that was right for them.

Right, right, terribly unfair. So what's to be done? You could always vote with your feet to a school district where nobody needs to fudge in on residency to stick around because schools are pretty good across the board. Sounds like the perfect place for you.

You could even get away from the holier than the aggressive than thou nutters on this thread!

Meh, cheaters are everywhere, and the rich ones are the worst. I know a very affluent family that lied about their address to send their kids to a school they considered marginally better and more convenient. And the type of family that believes they can use their “vacation home” address justifiable is the type of family that will feel entitled in other areas as well. No thanks.

If you take this attitude, you will pretty soon live in a low trust dump. DC was a low trust dump for a long time, and only in the past couple of decades has been at all a decent place to live. I personally don’t want to live in a low trust dump.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:OP here… really, y’all? I assume all of you commit boundary fraud yourselves then? The public school situation in DC is really hard and my family follows the rules and so many others do too, and sometimes this means going to school that might not be the best ones, just because everyone can’t just help themselves to whatever they want in life can they? If we live in a society that chooses to just let people break rules for their own selfish benefit then what’s the point of any rules?

Sorry everyone’s jumping on you OP. I mean these people clearly did just help themselves to whatever, and part of the risk they assumed was that I might be a temporary situation because they might be turned in. No one forced them to cheat. Also unfair to everyone else who made sacrifices to buy a house in the school district that was right for them.

Right, right, terribly unfair. So what's to be done? You could always vote with your feet to a school district where nobody needs to fudge in on residency to stick around because schools are pretty good across the board. Sounds like the perfect place for you.

You could even get away from the holier than the aggressive than thou nutters on this thread!

Meh, cheaters are everywhere, and the rich ones are the worst. I know a very affluent family that lied about their address to send their kids to a school they considered marginally better and more convenient. And the type of family that believes they can use their “vacation home” address justifiable is the type of family that will feel entitled in other areas as well. No thanks.

If you take this attitude, you will pretty soon live in a low trust dump. DC was a low trust dump for a long time, and only in the past couple of decades has been at all a decent place to live. I personally don’t want to live in a low trust dump.

What attitude? That rich cheaters cheat wherever they are?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The more bizarre conclusion that driving middle-class families out of DC because they don't have acceptable neighborhood schools is preferable to having them stay. We've been in Ward 6 for 20 years. In that time, at least half of the families with school-age kids we've known have hit the road for NW or the burbs partly because they were fed up with issues relating to access to good DCPS and DCPCS schools. I'd much rather have a neighborhood who's been active in Hill life for years stick around by funding an IB-address for an elementary school than run off to Fairfax. These are the last people I'd report.

It's too easy to judge. We know multiple East Asian immigrant families on CH who went for Brent by fudging an address, after discovering that it was the only public elementary school in Ward 6 with more than a handful of Asian students in the entire school. Are you at that situation as an Asian parent? Get a life.

Agree with this poster. DCPS elementary schools even aren't that great. Nobody should get keyed up about alleged boundary fraud. If you own in-boundary real estate that works for a school for whatever reasons, use it. It's your property. As for J-R, if you have the paperwork to survive an investigation by DCPS, go for it. That's it, that's all.

The only way Dunbar crawls above being a degenerate factory is if they can get IB families to go. Making it easy to commit boundary fraud almost guarantees it will never be more than an underenrolled pit of despair.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here… really, y’all? I assume all of you commit boundary fraud yourselves then? The public school situation in DC is really hard and my family follows the rules and so many others do too, and sometimes this means going to school that might not be the best ones, just because everyone can’t just help themselves to whatever they want in life can they? If we live in a society that chooses to just let people break rules for their own selfish benefit then what’s the point of any rules?

Sorry everyone’s jumping on you OP. I mean these people clearly did just help themselves to whatever, and part of the risk they assumed was that I might be a temporary situation because they might be turned in. No one forced them to cheat. Also unfair to everyone else who made sacrifices to buy a house in the school district that was right for them.

Right, right, terribly unfair. So what's to be done? You could always vote with your feet to a school district where nobody needs to fudge in on residency to stick around because schools are pretty good across the board. Sounds like the perfect place for you.

You could even get away from the holier than the aggressive than thou nutters on this thread!

Meh, cheaters are everywhere, and the rich ones are the worst. I know a very affluent family that lied about their address to send their kids to a school they considered marginally better and more convenient. And the type of family that believes they can use their “vacation home” address justifiable is the type of family that will feel entitled in other areas as well. No thanks.

If you take this attitude, you will pretty soon live in a low trust dump. DC was a low trust dump for a long time, and only in the past couple of decades has been at all a decent place to live. I personally don’t want to live in a low trust dump.

What attitude? That rich cheaters cheat wherever they are?

Ah sorry, that there are cheaters everywhere and everyone does it so that makes cheating ok. That’s not the attitude in the initial post, but it’s a very common DC attitude.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here… really, y’all? I assume all of you commit boundary fraud yourselves then? The public school situation in DC is really hard and my family follows the rules and so many others do too, and sometimes this means going to school that might not be the best ones, just because everyone can’t just help themselves to whatever they want in life can they? If we live in a society that chooses to just let people break rules for their own selfish benefit then what’s the point of any rules?

Sorry everyone’s jumping on you OP. I mean these people clearly did just help themselves to whatever, and part of the risk they assumed was that I might be a temporary situation because they might be turned in. No one forced them to cheat. Also unfair to everyone else who made sacrifices to buy a house in the school district that was right for them.

Right, right, terribly unfair. So what's to be done? You could always vote with your feet to a school district where nobody needs to fudge in on residency to stick around because schools are pretty good across the board. Sounds like the perfect place for you.

You could even get away from the holier than the aggressive than thou nutters on this thread!

Meh, cheaters are everywhere, and the rich ones are the worst. I know a very affluent family that lied about their address to send their kids to a school they considered marginally better and more convenient. And the type of family that believes they can use their “vacation home” address justifiable is the type of family that will feel entitled in other areas as well. No thanks.

If you take this attitude, you will pretty soon live in a low trust dump. DC was a low trust dump for a long time, and only in the past couple of decades has been at all a decent place to live. I personally don’t want to live in a low trust dump.

What attitude? That rich cheaters cheat wherever they are?

Ah sorry, that there are cheaters everywhere and everyone does it so that makes cheating ok. That’s not the attitude in the initial post, but it’s a very common DC attitude.

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