
The property tax rate differential is negligible, at least for the population we're talking about. The more substantial tax rate hit, by far, is personal income tax, where D.C. simply gouges wage earners outside of low income folks. So, you were just wrong by miles, and your argument was less than relevant to begin with anyway. I don't know why I bother, other than to point out self-assured wrongness where it exists. |
That doesn't say anything about how residency cheaters are treated. Just because they'll be extreme sticklers with a few upper middle class families, doesn't mean they wouldn't just take any document or promise of document from another family. At my neighborhood DPR pool, the very young only lifeguard who got to know everyone, made the frequent customer white dad go home 5 blocks away for his driver's license, while the AA mom, who told me she didn't know where the Banneker pool was because she lives in Maryland, wasn't asked for anything at all beyond signing in. And I'm not saying he was being racist. It took a few summer weeks at the pool to decide that his differential treatment wasn't preferential treatment. I wouldn't be surprised if my own EOTP dual language school (could be the same one), gave me a hell of a time to provide them the best set of residency proofs that they can hand over to inspectors as an example of how paperwork is handled at their school, while cutting lots and lots of corners with and giving lots and lots of leeway to lots of other families. Differentiation. |
Oh really. I'm an AA mom who's been to pools at Banneker, Upshur, Marie Reed, Wilson, Takoma, and even Deanwood and Turkey Thicket and I've [b]NEVER [/b]seen anyone allowed past without proper identification. I can think of at least two child meltdowns that my husband (also AA) has endured because he arrived at a pool with no ID. Please just stop with the unbelievably ridiculous speculation. Take the steps to report any suspicions you have, chase down and interrogate parents, corner and intimidate the kids you think may be sleeping in Maryland, inform them that they and their parents are degenerate scofflaws, and gather your neighbors to join in a campaign of public shaming. Don't just post your disdain on an anonymous online forum. Outing yourself as a busybody asshole with too much time on your hands is about the best public service you can offer. |
Why would I make up that story? You're using a lot of strong language, assuming that while you're calling me a busybody asshole, I'll call other families degenerate scofflaws. Just keep on yelling crazy things and calling me a liar, that's cool. |
And why would I? White parents think there are about 12 schools out of 115 ( http://find.myschooldc.org/ ) - that's one hundred and fifteen schools offering pre-school for 3 year olds in DC - considered "acceptable" for their children. But they also believe that black and hispanic parents are the ones most likely cheating. OH, and that POOR KIDS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE CHEATED MOST. Um, okay. |
1- I commented that you should keep on yelling, and I guess you just went on right ahead. 2- People value short commutes. People want their school to have room for their neighbor's 3 year-old to go to school with their own 3 year-old. Between the schools close enough and the schools worth commuting an hour a day for, sure, 12 sounds about right. Ah, those "white people" and the things they think! 3- Yes, seriously, how is it ok to write "White people think [xyz]"? Do you see anywhere the statement in this thread "Black people think [xyz]" or "Hispanics think [xyz]"? Do you sincerely think you have a good grasp on what an entire ethnic group in this city thinks? SMH. |
Yup. Shake away. Or go ahead and take one of the many options open to you to suss out and rid your school of all these cheaters. And by all means, report back on your findings. |
Best part of this forum is that the white hipster actually has the nuts to talk back to the mad black woman where if he was walking in Petworth or brightwood or what ever shit hole and she went all Laquita on him he would just uncomfortably look away and keep walking. Here with the power of anonymity with a splash of animosity he fires back. |
So there are more than 300 posts of vociferous indignation at the mere idea of residency cheaters (please do point to proof of the cheating if I've missed it in this or one of 28 other DCUM threads on the topic) but the one poster who challenges the fantasy and identifies as AA is the one who's gone "all Laquita"? WTFF? So you're not upset about being called a racist asshole, you're owning it outright. |
If it's any consolation, the address cheaters are rich, white folks who don't like their IB school all that much. Neither OSSE nor DCPS have any interest in enforcing the rules. |
Should be . . . address cheaters at our school |
It's cute that you describe her posts as "challenging the fantasy". I don't see any real content added to challenge anything, just indignant yelling and name-calling. But what do I know, I'm just a busybody asshole. |
Also: see, there are at least two types of white people who think different things. The busybody asshole living in Petworth or Brightwood, sending their kids to school with yours and engaging with you on the Internet, and annoyed at residency cheaters, and then there's the racist asshole who thinks that the busybody asshole lives in a shithole and who's giggling that the busybody asshole is even engaging with you when you just scream without saying anything useful. Ugh it's 2am. |
At least you're part of a trend. You should throw your hat in the ring for the Republican ticket. You've definitely got a shot. |
You cannot be serious. The Republican voters just love to complain about content-free indignant yelling and name-calling, oh wait. |