School residency cheaters investigated

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Anonymous wrote:After reading trough a lot of this I feel most posters can be put into three groups

1- black people who feel that not running some of the district's poor black kids through ringer who don't have stable lives to begin with is a priority even if it lets in some opportunistic cheats from PG who bank on blending in.

2- white people who are not the least bit sympathetic that increasing the rigors on residency documentation would hit both the poor and ward 9 because they think the issue is "black and white" about DC resources

3- the Dutch

There are non blacks that fit into #1. In fact, prob more white than black. I am black and I am all about tougher residency requirements.

Maybe the AA from this popville post could weigh in? http://www.popville.com/2016/06/well-this-is-depressing/

White ward 5 charter school parent and I'm in category 1

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The problem with removing rental and utility bills is that it would likely prevent undocumented immigrant children from getting an education and they are a vulnerable population. I am not sure how many of DC's undocumented immigrant population would be able to get government benefits sufficient to prove their residence.

Then these undocumented citizens should take it up with the people in escalades and infinitis that have ruined it for the rest of the class, literally. Anything people can abuse should be taken away.

I cannot think of any jurisdiction in the united states that has documentation procedures in place that would prevent undocumented immigrants. The debate is that if they are here, you want to integrate them and not create a perpetual underclass of non-citizens like in some European countries. Also studies show that early intervention preschool is the best way to create productive members of society through learning soft skills such as eye-contact, negotiating, showing up on time, and following directions.

Really, universal preschool should expand funding so that society/parents are not fighting over the crumbs of taxes leftover for the next generation.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/06/13/137109349/the-friday-podcast-the-case-for-preschool

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The problem with removing rental and utility bills is that it would likely prevent undocumented immigrant children from getting an education and they are a vulnerable population. I am not sure how many of DC's undocumented immigrant population would be able to get government benefits sufficient to prove their residence.

Then these undocumented citizens should take it up with the people in escalades and infinitis that have ruined it for the rest of the class, literally. Anything people can abuse should be taken away.

I cannot think of any jurisdiction in the united states that has documentation procedures in place that would prevent undocumented immigrants. The debate is that if they are here, you want to integrate them and not create a perpetual underclass of non-citizens like in some European countries. Also studies show that early intervention preschool is the best way to create productive members of society through learning soft skills such as eye-contact, negotiating, showing up on time, and following directions.

Really, universal preschool should expand funding so that society/parents are not fighting over the crumbs of taxes leftover for the next generation.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/06/13/137109349/the-friday-podcast-the-case-for-preschool

Honest question, what is wrong with a perpetual underclass? Not like we don't have one now with a couple of different levels. All people are not created equal and lord knows all adults aren't. Who do you want to pick our strawberries, fight our wars voluntarily and serve us food? Document the exaisting underclasses and give them a hard but consistent road out and sit back and enjoy a disproportionate amount of resources. Not only is it the American way but by posting here it is a strong indication that you are enjoying the fruits of the system that you decry. The only real variable is if we are honest about it and if we honor the way out once they put in the work. But without a path a revolt is likely.

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The problem with removing rental and utility bills is that it would likely prevent undocumented immigrant children from getting an education and they are a vulnerable population. I am not sure how many of DC's undocumented immigrant population would be able to get government benefits sufficient to prove their residence.

Then these undocumented citizens should take it up with the people in escalades and infinitis that have ruined it for the rest of the class, literally. Anything people can abuse should be taken away.

I cannot think of any jurisdiction in the united states that has documentation procedures in place that would prevent undocumented immigrants. The debate is that if they are here, you want to integrate them and not create a perpetual underclass of non-citizens like in some European countries. Also studies show that early intervention preschool is the best way to create productive members of society through learning soft skills such as eye-contact, negotiating, showing up on time, and following directions.

Really, universal preschool should expand funding so that society/parents are not fighting over the crumbs of taxes leftover for the next generation.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/06/13/137109349/the-friday-podcast-the-case-for-preschool

Universal preschool and pre-K are great, but why should DC taxpayers shell out to provide free pre-K to children from Prince George's county? This is especially the case when PG has underinvested in education while spending profligately on stupid projects like casinos and when fraudsters from MD basically cheat DC kids out of scarce spots.

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Not hard to show where you live. Come to my house. I'll show you my messy house, all my clothes, paperwork, ask the neighbors if I live here and so on.
Never seen people put up such a fuss and fight if they are not cheating.

This is how I feel. It's not hard to prove your residency. So report if you know of someone, and they can put to rest any confusion or questions. It shouldn't be a big deal to prove.

Actually, it is hard to prove residency. When I met my husband, he owned the house we lived in and had all the utilities in his name. Though we filed joint taxes as a married couple and my drivers license and registration carried my name and address, it was insufficient for registering my child. Very insufficient. We're three years in to public schooling in DC and each year, the schools we've attended have been hard core about seeing the person whose claiming guardianship and residency IN PERSON when they register a child.

If it's fair to resort to stereotypes - and it seems the "articles" and thousands of DCUM posts on the subject make stereotypes very fair - then I have to believe that the people with means to skirt this system are more likely well-off white people taking advantage of highly-regarded charter schools and DCPS west of the park. Yet these "reporters" couldn't be bothered with JKLM or Creative Minds, where there are certainly affluent white people "scamming our schools." Not to mention principals and parent teacher organizations looking the other way. These people are just not being followed home or having their government documentation researched and posted online.

Show of hands/posts, how many here are irked by their wait list number for Eagle Academy or Ludlow-Taylor?

I mean, if you don't see this sham excuse for journalism as a bigger problem in the interest of our kids, then I'm just frankly worried for our kids. I have resided and paid taxes in the District of Columbia for close to 30 years. But thinking about some nutcase vigilante targeting my kid for "investigation" because he's a brown kid getting out of the car of my MD-residing SIL who sometimes helps with childcare makes my blood boil.

And you go, Oh! If you're following the law you have nothing to worry about. Just answer the questions imposed on you and you're good to go! But the blatant racial bias expressed here and in the articles means I have a hell of a lot to worry about. Some fucking kook stalking kids outside of their school, taking photographs and posting them online? How is it that THAT fact doesn't disturb people?

I play the cards dealt. The racist vigilante stalking my kids outside their school dealt first.

Again - if there's anyone who can post pictures of these lowlifes that I can share with my kid's school, I'll be most grateful. We're longtime DC residents and taxpayers, but I'll be damned if I will accept this kind of harassment. It is far more egregious to me than people trying to do what's best for their kids - all the nonsense about "concerned and involved parents" is obviously a bucket of donkey shit.

Are all dc residents this angry and against stopping fraud?

I'm with this woman. I want to know who Watson and Taylor are. Not that hard to find out.

It has nothing to do with fraud. It has to do with the kind of people who stall children, all in the name of their "cause." Perfectly acceptable, one assumes, to have their own children stalked. After all, I'm sure their parents have done "something" wrong, and if not... why would they mind?

These people are being investigated because they're criminals. It really is that simple. How would you propose anyone catches these criminals if basic (legal) investigation methods such as following them home constitute "stalking"? Everyone always cries racism when faced with facts.

Here are the facts I'm facing:

If my AA kid is in a school/classroom that I've worked my ass off to get him into, he is likely to be subject to a "reporter" standing outside his school demanding his address, taking photographs and/or video footage of him outside of his school and posting it online with no legal justification. WITH NO LEGAL PROOF of wrongdoing on the part of this kid or his parents. It's then my obligation and hardship to PROVE that this publication of my kid's photo and the details of my residence, employment, and tax records should not be open for public discussion - after they have been published for open discussion.

If you accept that your society will allow unsubstantiated claims to serve as judgement on any person, than you're accepting that the same can and should be served against you - suffering all the repercussions, no matter how law abiding you are.

I find this abhorrent and baffled that I don't live in a society where others don't feel the same.

Your starting premise is wrong. The reporter standing outside the school is not looking for AA kids. He or she is looking at the license plates. So your child would draw zero unwanted attention if your car has DC plates or if you walked to school. If by any chance your child was dropped off multiple days in a car with MD tags, it sounds like they might have followed it. If it dropped your child at a DC address, boom, nothing to see here. If the driver and the kid gets out at a house in MD, then they start running the plate and chasing down the tax information. Then they might call you and say, hey, we see your child goes to XYZ charter but we can't find any record of you living in DC for the past 19 years, do you have an explanation for that?

No. Starting premise is that the "reporters" staked out schools where the majority of kids are black. They stated in story that their primary concern was schools where the majority of kids are black. They posited that the people "scamming our schools" are black people living in Maryland and the "proof" they published consists of pictures of black adults and children, though who knows where the photos were actually taken because this "news" organization follows no journalism standards.

I have a degree in journalism. I have a $260k HHI. I've lived in DC in DC since 1988. I have DC plates on my car and drive my kid to a public school in DC. I don't support residency cheating. But I AM FUCKING OUTRAGED that someone would stake themselves outside a school, photograph children, publish photos online, follow people home and publish their personal information in the guise of "news."

Like every other working parent, we cobble together a number of resources to ensure our kid is cared for while we're working the jobs that feed and clothe him. None of that is is anyone's business, but it may include an aunt or cousin who will pick up said child and take him to their house in Maryland if I've got work that keeps me from pick up. We have done all that's required to prove that he's our child and he lives with us at a DC residence.

The fact that some people cheat this system does not in any way make vigilante stalking and "investigation" okay with me. My own TOTALLY FUCKING LEGAL use of MD-residing relatives for childcare is an example of how positively wrong this reporting can be. And being wrong in even one instance of public shaming is far more egregious to me than any residency shaming.

That's the goddamned starting premise.

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Your starting premise is wrong. The reporter standing outside the school is not looking for AA kids. He or she is looking at the license plates. So your child would draw zero unwanted attention if your car has DC plates or if you walked to school. If by any chance your child was dropped off multiple days in a car with MD tags, it sounds like they might have followed it. If it dropped your child at a DC address, boom, nothing to see here. If the driver and the kid gets out at a house in MD, then they start running the plate and chasing down the tax information. Then they might call you and say, hey, we see your child goes to XYZ charter but we can't find any record of you living in DC for the past 19 years, do you have an explanation for that?

Exactly right.

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Anonymous wrote:

The problem with removing rental and utility bills is that it would likely prevent undocumented immigrant children from getting an education and they are a vulnerable population. I am not sure how many of DC's undocumented immigrant population would be able to get government benefits sufficient to prove their residence.

Then these undocumented citizens should take it up with the people in escalades and infinitis that have ruined it for the rest of the class, literally. Anything people can abuse should be taken away.

I cannot think of any jurisdiction in the united states that has documentation procedures in place that would prevent undocumented immigrants. The debate is that if they are here, you want to integrate them and not create a perpetual underclass of non-citizens like in some European countries. Also studies show that early intervention preschool is the best way to create productive members of society through learning soft skills such as eye-contact, negotiating, showing up on time, and following directions.

Really, universal preschool should expand funding so that society/parents are not fighting over the crumbs of taxes leftover for the next generation.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/06/13/137109349/the-friday-podcast-the-case-for-preschool

Universal preschool and pre-K are great, but why should DC taxpayers shell out to provide free pre-K to children from Prince George's county? This is especially the case when PG has underinvested in education while spending profligately on stupid projects like casinos and when fraudsters from MD basically cheat DC kids out of scarce spots.

Why not take your argument one step further and ask why waste the spots on black kids who parents don't pay much if any taxes all while 1/2 of those kids aren't going ever finish school anyway only to end up in jail. Come on I can almost read it between your lines racist

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The problem with removing rental and utility bills is that it would likely prevent undocumented immigrant children from getting an education and they are a vulnerable population. I am not sure how many of DC's undocumented immigrant population would be able to get government benefits sufficient to prove their residence.

Then these undocumented citizens should take it up with the people in escalades and infinitis that have ruined it for the rest of the class, literally. Anything people can abuse should be taken away.

I cannot think of any jurisdiction in the united states that has documentation procedures in place that would prevent undocumented immigrants. The debate is that if they are here, you want to integrate them and not create a perpetual underclass of non-citizens like in some European countries. Also studies show that early intervention preschool is the best way to create productive members of society through learning soft skills such as eye-contact, negotiating, showing up on time, and following directions.

Really, universal preschool should expand funding so that society/parents are not fighting over the crumbs of taxes leftover for the next generation.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/06/13/137109349/the-friday-podcast-the-case-for-preschool

Honest question, what is wrong with a perpetual underclass? Not like we don't have one now with a couple of different levels. All people are not created equal and lord knows all adults aren't. Who do you want to pick our strawberries, fight our wars voluntarily and serve us food? Document the exaisting underclasses and give them a hard but consistent road out and sit back and enjoy a disproportionate amount of resources. Not only is it the American way but by posting here it is a strong indication that you are enjoying the fruits of the system that you decry. The only real variable is if we are honest about it and if we honor the way out once they put in the work. But without a path a revolt is likely.

Maybe what's wrong with a "perpetual underclass" is that the feds and SCOTUS say local schools cannot deny education to undocumented immigrants.

http://wsbt.com/news/local/special-report-why-undocumented-immigrants-are-allowed-in-local-schools

""In June 1972, the Supreme Court issued Plyler v. Doe, a landmark decision holding that states cannot constitutionally deny students a free public education on account of their immigration status. By a 5-4 vote, the Court found that any resources which might be saved from excluding undocumented children from public schools were far outweighed by the harms imposed on society at large from denying them an education.

"For thirty years, Plyler has ensured equal access to education for children regardless of status, but anti-immigrant sentiment continues to threaten that right. States and localities have passed measures and adopted unofficial policies that violate the spirit—if not the letter—of the Court’s decision."
http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/equality/education-illegal-immigrants/#.V32x5bsrLIU

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Universal preschool and pre-K are great, but why should DC taxpayers shell out to provide free pre-K to children from Prince George's county? This is especially the case when PG has underinvested in education while spending profligately on stupid projects like casinos and when fraudsters from MD basically cheat DC kids out of scarce spots.

Why not take your argument one step further and ask why waste the spots on black kids who parents don't pay much if any taxes all while 1/2 of those kids aren't going ever finish school anyway only to end up in jail. Come on I can almost read it between your lines racist

You are really blinding yourself with your own prejudices. The previous poster said nothing remotely racist.

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Your starting premise is wrong. The reporter standing outside the school is not looking for AA kids. He or she is looking at the license plates. So your child would draw zero unwanted attention if your car has DC plates or if you walked to school. If by any chance your child was dropped off multiple days in a car with MD tags, it sounds like they might have followed it. If it dropped your child at a DC address, boom, nothing to see here. If the driver and the kid gets out at a house in MD, then they start running the plate and chasing down the tax information. Then they might call you and say, hey, we see your child goes to XYZ charter but we can't find any record of you living in DC for the past 19 years, do you have an explanation for that?

No. Starting premise is that the "reporters" staked out schools where the majority of kids are black. They stated in story that their primary concern was schools where the majority of kids are black. They posited that the people "scamming our schools" are black people living in Maryland and the "proof" they published consists of pictures of black adults and children, though who knows where the photos were actually taken because this "news" organization follows no journalism standards.

I have a degree in journalism. I have a $260k HHI. I've lived in DC in DC since 1988. I have DC plates on my car and drive my kid to a public school in DC. I don't support residency cheating. But I AM FUCKING OUTRAGED that someone would stake themselves outside a school, photograph children, publish photos online, follow people home and publish their personal information in the guise of "news."

Like every other working parent, we cobble together a number of resources to ensure our kid is cared for while we're working the jobs that feed and clothe him. None of that is is anyone's business, but it may include an aunt or cousin who will pick up said child and take him to their house in Maryland if I've got work that keeps me from pick up. We have done all that's required to prove that he's our child and he lives with us at a DC residence.

The fact that some people cheat this system does not in any way make vigilante stalking and "investigation" okay with me. My own TOTALLY FUCKING LEGAL use of MD-residing relatives for childcare is an example of how positively wrong this reporting can be. And being wrong in even one instance of public shaming is far more egregious to me than any residency shaming.

That's the goddamned starting premise.

Basically, Caller will go down the way Gawker is going bankrupt after Thiel funded a lawsuit against them and their shady practices. - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/business/dealbook/peter-thiel-tech-billionaire-reveals-secret-war-with-gawker.html

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My kid went to LT last year for PK3, luckily we got him in to a charter school for next year though the proximity to home with make it much less convenient. A few personal observations about the obvious residency cheaters at LT:

- The article is correct that there are tons of MD plates outside of school every morning.

- When we had a birthday party for our son we got about half the class in attendance, a few others just said openly that they didn't want to "drive in" on a weekend. One boy told my son he could come if he stayed with grandma for the weekend, since she lives in our neighborhood. These same kids seemed to skip all of the neighborhood parties.

- After the snowstorm when they had some delayed opening days and our roads and sidewalks were cleared but many suburbs were not ,the same kids were not able to make it in to school.

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Anonymous wrote:First world problems. Meanwhile back at the ranch these same brown children are simply showing up to school to get an education and be an asset in the world. But never mind all of that.

only sensible comment on here!! nero fiddled ...

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Anonymous wrote:My kid went to LT last year for PK3, luckily we got him in to a charter school for next year though the proximity to home with make it much less convenient. A few personal observations about the obvious residency cheaters at LT:

- The article is correct that there are tons of MD plates outside of school every morning.

- When we had a birthday party for our son we got about half the class in attendance, a few others just said openly that they didn't want to "drive in" on a weekend. One boy told my son he could come if he stayed with grandma for the weekend, since she lives in our neighborhood. These same kids seemed to skip all of the neighborhood parties.

- After the snowstorm when they had some delayed opening days and our roads and sidewalks were cleared but many suburbs were not ,the same kids were not able to make it in to school.

So is your primary concern getting a good education for your child or routing out and punishing kids who are "driving in"? Through the snowstorm that also paralyzed all of DC. And impacted people who live with and/or visit their grandmothers. And whatever other information about people's personal lives we can determine and (hopefully) post online and prosecute.

I mean, do you have names and photographs? That's the shit we value here.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid went to LT last year for PK3, luckily we got him in to a charter school for next year though the proximity to home with make it much less convenient. A few personal observations about the obvious residency cheaters at LT:

- The article is correct that there are tons of MD plates outside of school every morning.

- When we had a birthday party for our son we got about half the class in attendance, a few others just said openly that they didn't want to "drive in" on a weekend. One boy told my son he could come if he stayed with grandma for the weekend, since she lives in our neighborhood. These same kids seemed to skip all of the neighborhood parties.

- After the snowstorm when they had some delayed opening days and our roads and sidewalks were cleared but many suburbs were not ,the same kids were not able to make it in to school.

So is your primary concern getting a good education for your child or routing out and punishing kids who are "driving in"? Through the snowstorm that also paralyzed all of DC. And impacted people who live with and/or visit their grandmothers. And whatever other information about people's personal lives we can determine and (hopefully) post online and prosecute.

I mean, do you have names and photographs? That's the shit we value here.

Not trying to root out or punish anyone, nor share any individual's personal information. I'm not the author of the Daily Caller article, just a parent with observations about the obvious residency fraud at LT who wants my kid to get a great education.

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Not hard to show where you live. Come to my house. I'll show you my messy house, all my clothes, paperwork, ask the neighbors if I live here and so on.
Never seen people put up such a fuss and fight if they are not cheating.

This is how I feel. It's not hard to prove your residency. So report if you know of someone, and they can put to rest any confusion or questions. It shouldn't be a big deal to prove.

Actually, it is hard to prove residency. When I met my husband, he owned the house we lived in and had all the utilities in his name. Though we filed joint taxes as a married couple and my drivers license and registration carried my name and address, it was insufficient for registering my child. Very insufficient. We're three years in to public schooling in DC and each year, the schools we've attended have been hard core about seeing the person whose claiming guardianship and residency IN PERSON when they register a child.

If it's fair to resort to stereotypes - and it seems the "articles" and thousands of DCUM posts on the subject make stereotypes very fair - then I have to believe that the people with means to skirt this system are more likely well-off white people taking advantage of highly-regarded charter schools and DCPS west of the park. Yet these "reporters" couldn't be bothered with JKLM or Creative Minds, where there are certainly affluent white people "scamming our schools." Not to mention principals and parent teacher organizations looking the other way. These people are just not being followed home or having their government documentation researched and posted online.

Show of hands/posts, how many here are irked by their wait list number for Eagle Academy or Ludlow-Taylor?

I mean, if you don't see this sham excuse for journalism as a bigger problem in the interest of our kids, then I'm just frankly worried for our kids. I have resided and paid taxes in the District of Columbia for close to 30 years. But thinking about some nutcase vigilante targeting my kid for "investigation" because he's a brown kid getting out of the car of my MD-residing SIL who sometimes helps with childcare makes my blood boil.

And you go, Oh! If you're following the law you have nothing to worry about. Just answer the questions imposed on you and you're good to go! But the blatant racial bias expressed here and in the articles means I have a hell of a lot to worry about. Some fucking kook stalking kids outside of their school, taking photographs and posting them online? How is it that THAT fact doesn't disturb people?

I play the cards dealt. The racist vigilante stalking my kids outside their school dealt first.

Again - if there's anyone who can post pictures of these lowlifes that I can share with my kid's school, I'll be most grateful. We're longtime DC residents and taxpayers, but I'll be damned if I will accept this kind of harassment. It is far more egregious to me than people trying to do what's best for their kids - all the nonsense about "concerned and involved parents" is obviously a bucket of donkey shit.

Are all dc residents this angry and against stopping fraud?

I'm with this woman. I want to know who Watson and Taylor are. Not that hard to find out.

It has nothing to do with fraud. It has to do with the kind of people who stall children, all in the name of their "cause." Perfectly acceptable, one assumes, to have their own children stalked. After all, I'm sure their parents have done "something" wrong, and if not... why would they mind?

These people are being investigated because they're criminals. It really is that simple. How would you propose anyone catches these criminals if basic (legal) investigation methods such as following them home constitute "stalking"? Everyone always cries racism when faced with facts.

Here are the facts I'm facing:

If my AA kid is in a school/classroom that I've worked my ass off to get him into, he is likely to be subject to a "reporter" standing outside his school demanding his address, taking photographs and/or video footage of him outside of his school and posting it online with no legal justification. WITH NO LEGAL PROOF of wrongdoing on the part of this kid or his parents. It's then my obligation and hardship to PROVE that this publication of my kid's photo and the details of my residence, employment, and tax records should not be open for public discussion - after they have been published for open discussion.

If you accept that your society will allow unsubstantiated claims to serve as judgement on any person, than you're accepting that the same can and should be served against you - suffering all the repercussions, no matter how law abiding you are.

I find this abhorrent and baffled that I don't live in a society where others don't feel the same.

Your starting premise is wrong. The reporter standing outside the school is not looking for AA kids. He or she is looking at the license plates. So your child would draw zero unwanted attention if your car has DC plates or if you walked to school. If by any chance your child was dropped off multiple days in a car with MD tags, it sounds like they might have followed it. If it dropped your child at a DC address, boom, nothing to see here. If the driver and the kid gets out at a house in MD, then they start running the plate and chasing down the tax information. Then they might call you and say, hey, we see your child goes to XYZ charter but we can't find any record of you living in DC for the past 19 years, do you have an explanation for that?

No. Starting premise is that the "reporters" staked out schools where the majority of kids are black. They stated in story that their primary concern was schools where the majority of kids are black. They posited that the people "scamming our schools" are black people living in Maryland and the "proof" they published consists of pictures of black adults and children, though who knows where the photos were actually taken because this "news" organization follows no journalism standards.

I have a degree in journalism. I have a $260k HHI. I've lived in DC in DC since 1988. I have DC plates on my car and drive my kid to a public school in DC. I don't support residency cheating. But I AM FUCKING OUTRAGED that someone would stake themselves outside a school, photograph children, publish photos online, follow people home and publish their personal information in the guise of "news."

Like every other working parent, we cobble together a number of resources to ensure our kid is cared for while we're working the jobs that feed and clothe him. None of that is is anyone's business, but it may include an aunt or cousin who will pick up said child and take him to their house in Maryland if I've got work that keeps me from pick up. We have done all that's required to prove that he's our child and he lives with us at a DC residence.

The fact that some people cheat this system does not in any way make vigilante stalking and "investigation" okay with me. My own TOTALLY FUCKING LEGAL use of MD-residing relatives for childcare is an example of how positively wrong this reporting can be. And being wrong in even one instance of public shaming is far more egregious to me than any residency shaming.

That's the goddamned starting premise.

So yeah, you should be alarmed if your child is regularly being shuttled from school to a house in Maryland. People are pissed off at the blatant fraud that is commonplace at some schools and that has gotten the attention of this click-bait website. Perhaps you should express your frustration to your councilmember, who might be able to get some answers out of OSSE, because "all that's required" is not enough to keep people from cheating the system.