Suspected lottery scammer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you see Maryland tags consistently discharging a child into your JKLM school, take a cell phone picture, print it and send copies to the principal and chancellor. Just do it. I would.

Consider that some of these are likely to be babysitters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you provide proof of residency during enrollment, this will be verified.

Which happens in May. It's not in the school's interest to accept cheaters. There are audits and principal risks the wrath of "engaged" parents or an active PTA.

The elephant in the room is the "once you're in OOB, you're in and in your feeder middle school" policy. There are exceptions (Fenty flip-flop) and complications (boundary changes, school closings). Out-of-state licenses of babysitter, ex-spouse, grandparent, teacher, tuition payers who were IB but had to move, etc. etc. etc.

Are there alternatives to this policy? Friend in Boston said there's two rounds of lottery before enrollment finalized. They get 5 choices. Should specialized elementaries like bilinguals or STEM be open enrollment? Something's gotta give.

[Anonymous]

Okay, wow...Deal boundary cheaters unite -- you guys either go silent or call the rest of us crazy...I agree with 3:12, and they were responding to my own post. We pay for private and are disgusted by how many of our peers who could swing it insist it's cool to take Deal spots by lying. Thank you for getting angry, 3:12!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Not a valid comparison. Horace Mann and HD Cooke are still in the same school district. The property taxes paid in Adams Morgan support the entire District of Columbia. This isn't the equivalent of someone from Ward 9 scamming their way into Watkins. One city, people.

Not quite. Like it or not, DC still has a local school system - kids in the DCPS system go to their local schools uness they get an OOB slot through the lottery. Those slots are only available if there is sufficient room at the school. The (not so) hypothetical woman you're talking about is subverting the system - she's lying to get school slots that should be up for grabs to the general population. Is it as bad as someone from MD sending their kid to a DCPS? No. Is it lying, cheating, unethical, annd fraudulent? Yup.

Howl at the moon all you want, lots of us just are not going to care.

Bottom line: she pays DC taxes, she gets DC schools. I know, I know - you have more money than she does, and therefore you want to keep her out of YOUR school (because privately you're sure you're better than she is and she's stealing your privileges, but publicly you have to frame it all about a MORAL CHEATING ISSUE). Still, most of us see through this elitist bitchery on your part, and do not consider it a legitimate complaint worthy of taxpayer time and attention.

Did you even read the post, you half-wit? It isn’t about in-bounds kids – it’s about all the OTHER OOB KIDS (from all socioeconomic backgrounds, I might add). There are limited slots available, and every one that is fraudulently taken by someone who claims to be IB but isn’t screws the many other OOB kids from all over the city out of a chance at a slot.

Of course, if the woman bumps IB kids off the list pre-K list by lying about where she lives, the principle is the same – people are harmed because another commits fraud.

Finally, if you think telling the truth and following the rules is “elitist bitchery,” I’m really not sure what to say to you.

I'm not the half-wit: I figured out long ago how to buy into excellent schools for my children.

I have no sympathy for you snarling, rabid, female dogs who want to deny what few decent public schools there are to people with less money than you. Don't pretend this isn't about your sense of personal superiority: this forum reeks of entitlement, it is literally littered with posts of how certain west of the park publics are the best because they have the fewest OOB students.

Now some of you are baying in the alleys because Chase doesn't automatically outrank Tawanda? Well, Tawanda's grandmother's tax dollars are just as legitimate as yours.

It simply isn't fraudulent for a poorer DC taxpayer to get something that you wanted. It's honestly amusing to watch you froth at the mouth in your indignation.

So, too bad. If you wanted exclusive you should have gone private.

Ciao!