So I am thinking about using my Grandmother's address to send my kid to DCPS...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard the expression before either, but I love it. I assume it means -- feed the troll. After all, trolls eat goats, trolls live under bridges . . .

Ah, thank you for the clarification. Yeah, I may have to use that one myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What kind of rat bastard tattles on a kid (or their parents) in a situation like this? Are people who can afford to pay 800K and up to live in-boundary really so petty?

It is illegal to cheat. We people in DC all pay taxes...we don't want to pay even more for cheaters. If they want what DC has to offer -- move here. Otherwise -- they should go to their own schools out in the burbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15:38 Her grandmother's paying property taxes and has for years so she's contributed plenty just like all landlords do. Gosh you are harsh.

You are kidding me, right? It doesn't matter if the grandmother (the child's great-grandmother) is paying taxes b/c the great-grandmother isn't the legal guardian. This really is quite clear - if OP wants her kid to go to a DC school, she should establish residency in DC and pay taxes in DC.

Just like I can't get my kids into Arlington schools simply b/c my in-laws live there (and pay taxes there), nor should OP have a right to send her kid there if she is not a resident of DC. And, by the way, I'm not a DC taxpayer (I live in VA), so I don't really have a personal interest in this. It is just wrong to commit fraud IMO.

[Anonymous]

This is what a culture of entitlement leads to: people believing that just because something exists (housing, education, now healthcare) that *they're* entitled to have it and demand that *you* pay for it.

[Anonymous]

16:21, you just took the troll bait. Or threw some more out there. This whole thread is a bogus issue. (But somehow I can't stop watching. Like Real Housewives) There is hardly large scale fraud in residency despite the impression OP and tag watchers imply. The recession, NW baby boomlet, first time SAHMs and SAHDs, Rhee-form wars, new-to-DC preschool mania, increased (white) awareness of charters are sort of a perfect storm for whipping up frenzies a la Beauvoir scandal. (Remember that?) I confess to adding to the perception of scarcity. Applied to 4 charters and all 5 DCPS lottery choices for preschool. Not because I feel entitled. Just because the choices are there. Although far from perfect. Next year I'll take a chill pill and spend more time in the neighborhood hunting for hidden school gems.

[Anonymous]

I do not blame parents for doing what they do to get the best for their kids- but if you cheat, you take the consequences. DCPS should enforce residency. The taxpayers of DC pay for the schools. Schools cost money. We pay taxes. End of story. It's not a matter of "tattling", it's a matter of using our city resources for the good of the residents of the district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:16:21, you just took the troll bait. Or threw some more out there. This whole thread is a bogus issue. (But somehow I can't stop watching. Like Real Housewives) There is hardly large scale fraud in residency despite the impression OP and tag watchers imply. The recession, NW baby boomlet, first time SAHMs and SAHDs, Rhee-form wars, new-to-DC preschool mania, increased (white) awareness of charters are sort of a perfect storm for whipping up frenzies a la Beauvoir scandal. (Remember that?) I confess to adding to the perception of scarcity. Applied to 4 charters and all 5 DCPS lottery choices for preschool. Not because I feel entitled. Just because the choices are there. Although far from perfect. Next year I'll take a chill pill and spend more time in the neighborhood hunting for hidden school gems.

You're right. Thanks for the reality check. Getting emotional never helps.

That said, I think it's okay to feel a sense of civic outrage when our own public school students are shorted opportunities because of certain tax-cheats and frauds who make their homes on the MD side of the border. But there's a difference between emotional outrage (bad) and intellectual outrage (good); among other things, it leads us to ruthlessly report on the school cheats.

[Anonymous]

You women are funny. If Jeff is reading this I would like for him to just delete the thread. I have said numerous times that I am not going to do it. Instead of just letting it go, you have to keep digging and digging. Give it a rest why don't you? I am NOT a troll and I have never made a thread like this before. I stated my reasons (however flawed you all think they are) for contemplating doing it. I never said that I am ENTITLED... I said that because I stay at her house approx 4 nights during the week and since she lives near a good school I thought about sending my DS there. You all have bashed my son (stating that he would have low self esteem, you would NEVER invite him over... grown women would treat a child that way!....etc.). I have decided not to do it. Leave the issue alone....

Actually I will just report the entire thread... hopefully he will just delete the entire thing.

[Anonymous]

And sorry I know my last post was all over the place but I have to admit that I am a bit emotional right now..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16:21, you just took the troll bait. Or threw some more out there. This whole thread is a bogus issue. (But somehow I can't stop watching. Like Real Housewives) There is hardly large scale fraud in residency despite the impression OP and tag watchers imply. The recession, NW baby boomlet, first time SAHMs and SAHDs, Rhee-form wars, new-to-DC preschool mania, increased (white) awareness of charters are sort of a perfect storm for whipping up frenzies a la Beauvoir scandal. (Remember that?) I confess to adding to the perception of scarcity. Applied to 4 charters and all 5 DCPS lottery choices for preschool. Not because I feel entitled. Just because the choices are there. Although far from perfect. Next year I'll take a chill pill and spend more time in the neighborhood hunting for hidden school gems.

You're right. Thanks for the reality check. Getting emotional never helps.

That said, I think it's okay to feel a sense of civic outrage when our own public school students are shorted opportunities because of certain tax-cheats and frauds who make their homes on the MD side of the border. But there's a difference between emotional outrage (bad) and intellectual outrage (good); among other things, it leads us to ruthlessly report on the school cheats.

Here’s a slightly different question – what if the OP lived in DC, not in MD, but in an area with a poor-performing in-bound school? There wouldn’t be the tax-cheat issue – she’d be a DC resident, and paying DC taxes – but she’d be circumventing the OOB selection process. Would there be the same sense of outrage? I’m guessing yes, but I’m not sure why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Here’s a slightly different question – what if the OP lived in DC, not in MD, but in an area with a poor-performing in-bound school? There wouldn’t be the tax-cheat issue – she’d be a DC resident, and paying DC taxes – but she’d be circumventing the OOB selection process. Would there be the same sense of outrage? I’m guessing yes, but I’m not sure why.

You don't seem to get it. All DC residents are qualified to DC services because they pay taxes that go in to the big DC pot. Residents of other states are not allowed to use those services because they do not contribute to the pot. Do you understand how that works???? Now of course in boundary students have first right because they live IN BOUNDARY but OOB students who are DC residents also get a shot because while they are in boundary in their own neighborhood school they are still DC res and if there is space and they qualify they get in. But its ONLY DC residents that matter. As long as someone is not contributing to the pot (and im using this term to dumb it down) they do not get to taste the food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:16:21, you just took the troll bait. Or threw some more out there. This whole thread is a bogus issue. (But somehow I can't stop watching. Like Real Housewives) There is hardly large scale fraud in residency despite the impression OP and tag watchers imply. The recession, NW baby boomlet, first time SAHMs and SAHDs, Rhee-form wars, new-to-DC preschool mania, increased (white) awareness of charters are sort of a perfect storm for whipping up frenzies a la Beauvoir scandal. (Remember that?) I confess to adding to the perception of scarcity. Applied to 4 charters and all 5 DCPS lottery choices for preschool. Not because I feel entitled. Just because the choices are there. Although far from perfect. Next year I'll take a chill pill and spend more time in the neighborhood hunting for hidden school gems.

You're right. Thanks for the reality check. Getting emotional never helps.

That said, I think it's okay to feel a sense of civic outrage when our own public school students are shorted opportunities because of certain tax-cheats and frauds who make their homes on the MD side of the border. But there's a difference between emotional outrage (bad) and intellectual outrage (good); among other things, it leads us to ruthlessly report on the school cheats.

Here’s a slightly different question – what if the OP lived in DC, not in MD, but in an area with a poor-performing in-bound school? There wouldn’t be the tax-cheat issue – she’d be a DC resident, and paying DC taxes – but she’d be circumventing the OOB selection process. Would there be the same sense of outrage? I’m guessing yes, but I’m not sure why.

Only if the person is the mayor and flaunted his abuse of the OOB process. As for an ordinary DC citizen, I would have no issues. Every DC child is entitled to a good education. It is simply a darn shame that all are not provided with such.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Here’s a slightly different question – what if the OP lived in DC, not in MD, but in an area with a poor-performing in-bound school? There wouldn’t be the tax-cheat issue – she’d be a DC resident, and paying DC taxes – but she’d be circumventing the OOB selection process. Would there be the same sense of outrage? I’m guessing yes, but I’m not sure why.

You don't seem to get it. All DC residents are qualified to DC services because they pay taxes that go in to the big DC pot. Residents of other states are not allowed to use those services because they do not contribute to the pot. Do you understand how that works???? Now of course in boundary students have first right because they live IN BOUNDARY but OOB students who are DC residents also get a shot because while they are in boundary in their own neighborhood school they are still DC res and if there is space and they qualify they get in. But its ONLY DC residents that matter. As long as someone is not contributing to the pot (and im using this term to dumb it down) they do not get to taste the food.

Hey knucklehead – I understand the issue, but I was asking a different question. That’s why the post started with “Here’s a slightly different question.” That new question is: Would the outrage be as great if the OP lived in DC (and so her child wwould be entitled to attend DCPS) but was merely subverting the OOB lottery selection process. Try and keep up.

[Anonymous]

Only if the person is the mayor and flaunted his abuse of the OOB process. As for an ordinary DC citizen, I would have no issues. Every DC child is entitled to a good education. It is simply a darn shame that all are not provided with such.


....I am so sick of people blaming the mayor and getting on his case for sending his kids to a good public school. He's the goddam mayor...I think he deserves to send his kids to any public school in the city he so wishes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only if the person is the mayor and flaunted his abuse of the OOB process. As for an ordinary DC citizen, I would have no issues. Every DC child is entitled to a good education. It is simply a darn shame that all are not provided with such.


....I am so sick of people blaming the mayor and getting on his case for sending his kids to a good public school. He's the goddam mayor...I think he deserves to send his kids to any public school in the city he so wishes.

Thanks for your input, Ms. Rhee.