This is the correct response. OP, this is a colossal waste of your time. JR doesn’t care and is mot going to do anything about this, regardless of what you think or how you feel. |
It's exhausting how we need to go through this every few months with a Boundary Crusader who doesn't understand that some families have every right to be where they are, and aren't going to tell you the details. |
Exactly. The Boundary Crusader is spinning their wheels. Good. |
Boundary Crusader and fans strike me as consumed w/jealousy that there are UMC families who can afford more than one residential property in DC. They're all worked about how a vacation rental can work as an in-boundary address or something, at least part of the time. Yawn. Come on, DCPS has infinitely bigger problems that aren't being addressed. |
You seem to be assuming the student is doing this to brag or be arrogant, but the much more likely reason is that the student is worried/insecure about their situation and dealing with it in an immature/unsophisticated way. You have turned something that the kid is doing (or that your kid is telling you the kid is doing—so, secondhand teenage scuttlebutt) into the family being bold and arrogant. That says a lot more about you than it does about the kid and their family. |
This actually is an important rule. And if you break the rule (because you narcissistically believe you are entitled to lie to get what everyone else goes through great efforts to get legally) then you sign up for the consequences. You don’t get to be a cheater and also castigate people for being immoral for calling you out on your cheating. |
if JR doesn’t care, why were they doing home visits last summer? It’s true that lying about living in a different DC zone is different from living in MD. But lying about your address on school enrollment forms is a type of fraud regardless. |
Nobody is jealous of you. You are still a fraud/cheater though. |
You keep accusing people who disagree with you. You lose all credibility when you do that. You don't get to label people cheats just because you don't like their attitude, which is what you're doing here to this family. You don't know if they have as much right to be there as your family, so why post on DCUM and make all this fuss? At this point, your insistence and name-calling makes me think you're mentally unwell. |
Op could possibly be wrong about this family but the PP I was responding to was absolutely describing cheating/fraud (listing the residence of a non-domicile in enrollment paperwork). It just kind of makes me laugh how cheaters get so mad when faced with the fact that they are, indeed, cheaters. if you don’t want to be called a cheater, don’t cheat. |
That's debatable. In practice, it's not important because most people follow the rule. The few people who don't, get the side-eye and there's enough threats in the system to discourage a larger number of people from doing shady stuff. This allows the majority to stay compassionate and not report families who might be breaking the rule. It's critical to understand how compassion only works in systems that generally work as intended and have a little wiggle room for a few rule-breakers. Most systems are able to accommodate such situations. Boundaries in DCPS are generally followed. DCPS is NOT academically great overall, but that's not because a few families break the rules to maneuver their way to the "good" schools. It's because DC has a preponderance of low-income families who struggle with school attendance and other socio-economic problems like family stability, gang associations and general apathy towards education, and those impacts scores and learning atmospheres in certain schools. |
I think it's fine for OP to report an out of boundaries kid if he legit thinks they're breaking the rules and talking about it in an obvious way. If every kid were allowed to attend whatever school they wanted, some schools would be overcrowded, that's why boundaries exist.
I think OP is an obnoxious jerk for "asking for the number for residency fraud" because it's obvious he just wants to create ill-will and malice towards alleged boundary cheats, when anyone with an ounce of intelligence can google the number in 2 seconds. |
My DD got in to Hardy out-of-bound. We were only interested in moving because of JR as a high school option. We were inbound for Dunbar High and saw the Hardy feeder lottery win as a way to expand our options. |
No, I'm not a fraud/cheater. I'm a dad who wishes that J-R offered more rigorous academics to my bright, diligent rising 10th grader who was largely bored in his 9th grade classes. Fix that, please. |
uh, well, there's better high schools in this city than jackson reid. maybe try one of those? also, using a vacation rental as an in-boundary address is definitely cheating. |