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I hope not. Thanks PP. |
Like a lot of men on DCUM, he had Family #1, things didn’t work out, he met someone new and has family #2, but continues to be a parent to child of Family #1. How is this difficult to envision? |
| It’s just amusing that of the hundreds (thousands) of residency cheaters, some poor hump gets busted twice. |
Go to court and sign child over to grandma as guardian, amend taxes! |
He must have p***ed someone off - tipsters! |
Former Ballou teacher here. There are quite a few Maryland kids in Ballou. Usually it's because they have family in the surrounding area, and want to go to school with their cousins. They flow back and forth between their relatives' houses, so they may be home one night and staying with that relative the next night. Some kids do it because they want to play sports there although that's been curbed a bit since the investigation a while back. Coincidentally, the same thing happens with a handful of Ballou-like schools across the Maryland line. It's the worst kept secret. No one seems to notice or care what happens in the less desirable schools, so admins look the other way as long as the students behave. It's even used as leverage to keep some of the repeat offenders in check. |
| If they are in a failing high school like Ballou and making good grades and behaving, I say let them stay. They are being good role models. |
No kids in high school need to learn to respect laws. |
It shouldn’t be here. For every case of residency fraud found, there are probably 100 that go undetected. Lock them up! |
I always figured this happened and it came out about even in the end. Some states allow kids to enroll across state lines and they settle up financially at the end of the year. I don't see a problem with it if a school has space. It's only when DC kids are getting deprived of something they would otherwise have (like a spot at CHML or McKinley Tech) that it's not okay. |
So the Maryland kids stay with grandma for a short time and next thing they’re permanently enrolled at Wilson? Give me a friggin break! Fraud is fraud. |
| Really surprised that Perry St Prep is not on that list. |
Actually under the residency rules all you have to do is write a letter to grandma saying the kid needs to live with her for a while. No court document needed. It’s ridiculous. |
So now you are going to use reverse discrimination, you can have it one way because it's Ballou but maybe you can reduce the cost based on the number of stars the schools have? |