Would lie about where you live...

[Anonymous]

Is this what America has come to?
Hight school dropouts are no longer mentioned, we fight about kids that do attend school?

I suggest you rent a room at a house or an apartment at one of those snooty areas and teach your kid to live on its own.
They can come home for the weekend

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Anonymous wrote:
Life is based on how much you earn. Don't confuse it with attitude. If someone acts like they are all that, it is pretty obvious they are not. But I digress. You live where you can afford to live. What is so complicated about that? There are taxpayers in the "snooty" (as PP called it) areas that are paying HUGE taxes. These taxes help the rest of the county pay for their schools. How difficult is this to understand? Not very. I am grateful every day that I don't have to pay the taxes the "snooty" people pay, and that someone else is helping to foot the bill for the county. Not many people I know can afford to pay the taxes that some people pay. Some of them with no kids in the house, so they are not benefitting from the taxes going toward schools. Also, I don't know many people who can afford rent in these places.

Before you attack or feel so entitled, don't be such an ingrate. The counties are cracking down. What would your kids think if you tried it and got caught (you will). Then they have to switch schools again, make new friends, is this fair to your children? Really? What if you got deported?

You must be some kind of a super-duper person who is definitely entitled to his/her esclusive community.
What a disaster that some of those houses do not have children to send to the local super-duper school.
As for your huge taxes, go and cry somewhere else
The politicians are entitled to give your taxes to wall street bankers, so I am entitled to let my kid go to a school of my choosing

[Anonymous]

Why is a good school area always described as "snooty"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about letting every family choose for themselves what school they send their kid to?
I know that that is the practice in some other countries. The schools first accept the local kids, then if they have room they accept all the others. Some neighbourhoods in boundary areas can choose.
I think the school zoning is there just because of the school bus service. If you eliminate the service, then there will be no need to fight.
Now before anyone starts a fight. Every child is worth the same. And school bus service is Chinese communism.

Maybe you can start doing this with private schools, too. Why should these kids be a part of something so elite when your child has this same right except you can't afford the tuition. Same thing with school districts. If you can't aford to buy in the area where you want your kid to attend school this is not my fault or my problem. If we worked hard to get the education to give us higher paying jobs and you didn't, whose fault is that?

[Anonymous]

12:29 - rather presumptuous and judgmental of you? Who said that PP was in a snooty school? You?

12:42 - agreed, entirely. Following the "entitled" rationale, we should all be able to invade the private schools too, without regard for who actually belongs (yes, belongs) there. But this is D.C., where every other person believes in their disillusioned head that the rules don't actually apply to them. And they have they audacity to infuriate people who can actually do something about it. Not very smart, are they?

Entitled feeling? yes; smart? absolutely, emphatically no.

The fact that this topic has come up is absurd, but if you insist on breaking the law, I know plenty of people who insist on enforcing it. So be it. Thanks for the heads up, BTW!

[Anonymous]

I think I'm going to call Fairfax County School Superintendent and City of Falls Church Superintent and recommend they read this thread and start a massive investigation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think I'm going to call Fairfax County School Superintendent and City of Falls Church Superintent and recommend they read this thread and start a massive investigation.

You must be the wacko simpleton from earlier in this thread. Good luck with your efforts, report back on how the investigation n the DCUMs forum goes. Maybe you can call 20/20 and they can do an expose.

[Anonymous]

I have a crazy idea! How about all of our taxes actually go to ensuring that schools are quality and our kids regardless of income, have access to a great, free education?? I do realize that education is also about the community and parental commitment, but I do hate how hard it is to live in a decent public school district. And DC has a lot more choices than most areas. Although this city is crazy expensive you can live in some of the outer burbs and live in an affordable house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Following the "entitled" rationale, we should all be able to invade the private schools too, without regard for who actually belongs (yes, belongs) there. But this is D.C., where every other person believes in their disillusioned head that the rules don't actually apply to them. And they have they audacity to infuriate people who can actually do something about it. Not very smart, are they?

All children belong in schools. I would be happy to see every child in America go on a march demanding quality education that they are entitled to.
I am even OK with removing elite education, because all children should have access to that same education.
Parents jumping through loops to get their children educated are not the problem. The problem are the parents who could not care less. The high school drop outs who have to drop out so they can work and help the family get by. The teen pregnance rates. Even the parents who refuse to finance their childrens college educations when they are definitely able to do so.
Why all this fear about your exclusive district losing its exclusivity? What exactly are you afraid of? That your neighbour will get a fright and the place will have white-flight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think I'm going to call Fairfax County School Superintendent and City of Falls Church Superintent and recommend they read this thread and start a massive investigation.

You must be the wacko simpleton from earlier in this thread. Good luck with your efforts, report back on how the investigation n the DCUMs forum goes. Maybe you can call 20/20 and they can do an expose.

Great Idea. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Following the "entitled" rationale, we should all be able to invade the private schools too, without regard for who actually belongs (yes, belongs) there. But this is D.C., where every other person believes in their disillusioned head that the rules don't actually apply to them. And they have they audacity to infuriate people who can actually do something about it. Not very smart, are they?

All children belong in schools. I would be happy to see every child in America go on a march demanding quality education that they are entitled to.
I am even OK with removing elite education, because all children should have access to that same education.
Parents jumping through loops to get their children educated are not the problem. The problem are the parents who could not care less. The high school drop outs who have to drop out so they can work and help the family get by. The teen pregnance rates. Even the parents who refuse to finance their childrens college educations when they are definitely able to do so.
Why all this fear about your exclusive district losing its exclusivity? What exactly are you afraid of? That your neighbour will get a fright and the place will have white-flight

It isn't an equal opportunity world,whatever politicians and liberals may say. You belong in a private school if the tuition has been paid for you by parents or scholarship. You live in McLean, Potomac, Georgetown, Upper Northwest, Spring Valley, beacuse you can afford to make the monthy house payments and pay the real estate taxes. Life is unfair.