residency cheater

[Anonymous]

Perhaps that is because you are not someone who moved to DC to work for an NGO after majoring in public policy at Duke, who enjoys jogging, gardening, and squash; lives in NW and sends their 3 kids to Janey.

Or perhaps you feel that way because you are. How would I know? I don't know you... or your life.

[Anonymous]

Personal experience at non-JKLM WOTP elementary several years before people cared about this. We had several residency cheaters. In the aggregate, they were a small percentage, but enough to be concerned. Until my DC was leaving the school did I bring my concerns to the administration who couldn't care less. This was before it was relatively easy to report these things. Though I made a complaint.

Finally when I confronted one, she told me she was owed a space due to racism. When I told her that residency cheating was still illegal despite familial status, she told me she was counter-acting "The Plan".

The doing it at my school were open about what they were doing. I went to public schools growing up where this didn't happen. Obviously mistakes happen when boundaries are complicated. It seems with the crack down, residency cheating is decreasing. Poor kids will benefit because there will be space for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The assumptions you make about my gender, marital status and employement say more about you than about me.

Oh. You mean I should not make up things about you, a hypothetical person on the internet?

So I take it you are all out of arguments and concede the point. Thanks for playing.

To summarize: residency fraud does not help African American children living in poverty. It hurts them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw the kid being picked up in a white (make/model withheld) car and I followed the car. It went right on past the DC/Maryland line. How much more proof do you need?

Ummm....could they have been running an errand? I shop at the Commissary on either Andrews Air Force Base or Ft. Myer in VA and often do this after school pick up. I'm leaving the school and crossing state lines. What you saw proves nothing. And for the record, I am against residency fraud.

[Anonymous]

No.

To summarize: residency fraud does not help African American children living in poverty. It hurts them.

So now you're the champion of poor African American children living in poverty? When you've just spent days explaining to us that some African Americans are only middle class because they have cheating government jobs?

How about you stop making gross generalizations about people you don't know, whose circumstances you don't know and worry about your own damn family and kids?

[Anonymous]

How about people just call the number when it seems they have something legit, let the office check, and wash their hands of it? Take the handwringing and anguish out of it.

[Anonymous]

Team, we've really ruffled the feathers of the residency cheaters who frequent this board. Keep up the good work and remember, if you see something, say something!

[Anonymous]

I have had two associates contact me to ask where my DD got in for PK3. Both live in PG County. One is middle class, the other is underemployed and would qualify for FARMS. There really is no "face" of the typical residency cheater...

[Anonymous]

Team, we've really ruffled the feathers of the residency cheaters who frequent this board. Keep up the good work and remember, if you see something, say something!

As well as the feathers of many people who are not crazy racist stalkers! Good job, you!!

I think it's important for everyone to have things to be proud of, and this is probably a better outlet for you than burning crosses on lawns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No.

To summarize: residency fraud does not help African American children living in poverty. It hurts them.

So now you're the champion of poor African American children living in poverty? When you've just spent days explaining to us that some African Americans are only middle class because they have cheating government jobs?

How about you stop making gross generalizations about people you don't know, whose circumstances you don't know and worry about your own damn family and kids?

Do you realize there are multiple posters in this thread?

Do you have any familiarity with FARM applications? It is highly improbable that a MD resident would simultaneously commit residency fraud and apply for FARM. In most cases this would require falsification of a DC income tax return, which is a serious criminal offense. They would be exposing themselves to potential audits on multiple levels, criminal prosecution, and risking their benefits. Yes, we can generalize about MD-resident cheaters and no, they are not poor, for the umpteenth time. They are middle class people dishonestly gaming a government system for their own gain, for example, to avoid paying for private preschool. DC resident cheaters are also unlikely to be poor, but that's another story.

How about you engage with the actual issue instead of looking for every opportunity to accuse other people of racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw the kid being picked up in a white (make/model withheld) car and I followed the car. It went right on past the DC/Maryland line. How much more proof do you need?

Hm, what do some people do after they pick their kids up - doctor's appointments, errands, shopping, etc. My kid is at YY, not far from SS or Hyattsville in different directions. Would it be okay if I take my kid to his dentist in SS for a 4pm appointment. I guess I would meet your approval since I have DC plates. But, it would not meet your approval if his father took him to his dentist appointments. Dad has MD plates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw the kid being picked up in a white (make/model withheld) car and I followed the car. It went right on past the DC/Maryland line. How much more proof do you need?

Follow them home and get back to us.

Obviously I followed them to a house. Duh! I didn't think I had to spell that out.

You obviously have a lot of time on your hands. Now, did you take this address and give it to the principal of the school or call the hotline? If so, what happened after your sleuthing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm just vastly amused that in a place like DC, where so many of your jobs are completely dependant upon the public teat in one form or another, there are crazy racists who like to post about black people and their government jobs being like welfare.

I mean, I have to be amused, because otherwise I'd cry.

I think you are taking it a little far, and attacking a straw man at this point. There are many people in DC govt who merit their positions and are providing valuable services, competently and honestly. And then there are the others who don't meet that standard. It is widely acknowldged that previous admins, particularly Barry, did use the govt as a form of employment program for unqualified people, what you call welfare. And, there was quite a lot of corruption, some of which continues. We are still dealing with the negative consequences. This is widely documented, including in traditionally liberal and sympathetic publications such as the Washington Post. But if you prefer to race-bait and ignore facts, I can't stop you.

Back to the topic at hand, there are those who think that residency cheating is wrong. There are others who apparently see it as a kind of distributive justice, or even reparations as one poster put it. This line of thinking seems to me to be underpinned by the same philosophy that motivated Barry's employment efforts. It is just as flawed now as it was back then.

Acknowledged by whom? People like you who only thinks the worst about Black people. People like you who think that most, if not all, middle class blacks rose up through the ranks by corruption.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right... you're just a concerned DC citizen who has lived here for three or four years, after growing up in Vienna with a family who worked for a defense contractor.

Try Wichita.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw the kid being picked up in a white (make/model withheld) car and I followed the car. It went right on past the DC/Maryland line. How much more proof do you need?

Follow them home and get back to us.

Obviously I followed them to a house. Duh! I didn't think I had to spell that out.

A house? A relative's house? A friends' house? A babysitter's house? Their house?

It's really not that obvious, Mr. Zimmerman.