School residency cheaters investigated
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
There's no evidence that this is a "substantial problem"!! That's the whole point ... |
Anonymous
| What is MOTH? |
Anonymous
an exclusive elusive secret society of mothers. "Moms on The Hill - MOTH" http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/439851.page |
Anonymous
+1. A friend of mine used her mother's address to get her kid into a DC charter, which he graduated from. However she was not able to get DC TAG for him because her address on her tax forms was a MD address and she claimed him as a dependent. |
Anonymous
No muggles allowed. |
Anonymous
If you read other articles in Washington Post and elsewhere, consider the City Council hearing in 2012, read this and other forums (with the topic coming up again and again over time), and if you open your eyes, the problem is clear. We're not in a court of law where evidence is needed for a conviction. Rather, plenty of information and examples indicate that this is a substantial problem deserving proper investigation and legal evidence collection. You can choose to require unassailable evidence before you acknowledge a problem, but that's just dumb. Can I offer you a cigarette? |
Anonymous
Even criminal courts allow convictions based on circumstantial evidence. |
Anonymous
| I think a childless adult resident of D.C. should sponsor out-of-D.C. students. |
Anonymous
there's been absolutely no credible evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, that this is some kind of severe issue within the scope of issues facing DC and DC schools. just anonymous DCUM posters and busy bodies counting MD license plates. on the other hand, we have plenty of reason to believe that the Daily Caller "investigation" is a hack job or worse to further their own anti-federal/anti-"liberal" agenda. Of course there are some parents committing fraud out there. That does not demonstrate this is THE PROBLEM ZoMG!!! with DC schools. If you are super exercised about residency fraud, please take a moment to think why. |
Anonymous
|
I'm a DCPS teacher and I can think of about 15 kids at my school who live in MD. Some have told me flat out, some I've figured out in other ways. This is anecdotal, of course, but if I can think of 15 without even trying I'm assuming there are at least another 15 that I don't know about.
I'm sure the next question will be, have you reported it? And, no. Administration has made it pretty clear that they don't want to know. And in some ways, I can see their point--if the administration goes on a hunt to kick these kids out (many of whom are part of families who are well liked, are involved, etc.) it's going to cause a trust issue with remaining families. So while I don't necessarily agree with that stance, I do sort of understand it. I think systemwide tougher verification (random checks, etc) is the way to go, because if it's something the entire district is doing the administration doesn't come out looking like the bad guys. I'm a DC taxpayer too, and I don't like the fact that there's so much cheating. |
Anonymous
Do you sense that they may be looking the other way because otherwise that particular school would be under-enrolled and put on the closing list? Because 15 kids off the top of your head is more than half a class. |
Anonymous
If you take a close look at the statistics by our heroic right-wing crusaders, you would notice that they all have words like "about" and "nearly" and "almost" and "approximately" in front of them. That is because, although they claimed to be counting things like license plates they were either not counting very much, or they need plausible deniability because their numbers are actually pulled out of their asses. I'm inclined to believe a Washington post article from 2014 that found excel charter school had issues with accountability. I am less inclined to believe someone who doesn't think women should use birth control, although she has no children herself. I think an examination of rosniak's wife's workplace would show more graft and waste of taxpayer dollars than all the Maryland cheaters in the world. It appears to be a "foundation" for female healthcare executives. To... have female health care executives. |
Anonymous
There is plenty of credible evidence that residency fraud is a real thing. Our child went to a charter school (not HRCS) where people freely admitted that they lived in MD but had applied with a DC address. I'm not even sure some of them knew it was not okay; they acted like it was perfectly acceptable as long as they could find someone in DC to let them use their address. We switched to a different school and it is like night and day. |
Anonymous
Credible investigative journalism would present enough evidence to support an argument that substantiates perhaps some anecdotal evidence. This reporter has gathered a small amound of anecdotal evidence and created an entire argument wrapped around it. It's bush league and I'd hesitate to call it "journalism". This is closer to tabloid level rigor. |
Anonymous
Not in our case, though I'm sure there are schools where this would be a consideration. We'd still be a long way from under-enrolled. It would almost certainly change staffing--we might lose a position, which wouldn't be ideal. All of those kids don't come out of the same grade level, so it would be a few here, a few there--but the overall numbers might trigger us losing a position, which would then make other classes bigger, or mean that we lost one of the resource support positions. |