School residency cheaters investigated

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Try going into DC DMV and telling them that because of "cultural differences" and "informal arrangements" there are no "docs." How do you think that's going to work out?

I didn't think so.

So don't make the argument when it comes to the DC public and charter schools.

I know we've moved on but want to circle back here because I think it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding. Driving is not a legally protected right. Education is. As a result, housing insecure families are able to use whatever documents they have access to, which includes informal letters, to access that education. For the school system to require a level of documentation equivalent to the DMV of a family that is housing insecure, or has custody issues, would almost certainly bring a lawsuit.

not to mention the fact that you actually CAN get a DC ID using informal methods, like an affidavit from a DC resident or social worker attesting that you live in DC.

Good point!

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Anonymous wrote:I've been in the neighborhood long enough (15 years) to know that there are boatloads of lovely people on the Hill, a great many generous and easy-going parents of toddlers and school-age kids with a big vision for humanity. The entitled crowd, including the type of parent hell bent on busting boundary cheaters and PC County address cheaters seeking a good ECE education for their kids, is comprised mainly by relatively recent arrivals, families who came and bought property within the last five years or so. The old timers learned to roll with the punches somewhere along the way. If they'd hadn't, they'd have left.

I've been here 15 years too (ok fine 14). Maybe it is different when they are taking your kid's spot. It is easy to be easy going when it doesn't directly effect you.

How in the hell can you know who "took" your kid's spot? You were #1 on a WL and you know an address cheater personally who got off the WL ahead of you? The spots they give away aren't numbered; in case where DCPS is auctioning off 28 PreK3 spots you can't find out who got took #28, that's not how it works. I know plenty of people on Cap Hill (self included) who were shut out of their ECE program in-boundary for a year or two, parents who know neighborhood address cheaters, and MD address cheaters for that matter, who have never bitched. They cheerfully got on with things elsewhere for PreK3 and sometimes PreK4, too. You play the hand you're dealt.

Easy there...

You are right, the spots aren't numbered 1-28. Therefore if any of those 28 kids was from a cheating family, they would be taking a spot from a kid on the WL.

Yes we had a low number and didn't get in. Yes we "played our hand," and everyone is fine. Still does not make it right for cheaters to cheat.

A great deal is not right in this picture, first and foremost that PG County not offering universal free PreK, or nearly enough Preschool spots to serve low-income families. In second place, I nominate DCPS for blithely allowing scores of elementary schools to continue to fail, with disastrous proficiency pass rates in the mix. Cheaters are just as likely to end up on the WL as to get in. You can note the immorality of cheaters cheating, or you can celebrate your singular access to non means-tested preschool and prek in every area of this great city but Upper NW. To my knowledge, no other American city offers this. You have Tommy Well's tireless advocacy to thank for the opportunity. I don't know a single family outside Upper NW who has been shut out at every preschool or prek within two miles of their house by the start of school in ten years of paying close attention to lottery results.

Come to the Hill where you can throw a rock and hit five families that have been shut out of ECE.

+1. This is my family. And with nothing low enough to give us any hope. I think a big part of the issue is that everywhere is filling up and so there are more people than ever in this boat.

if you want to complain about being "shut out," then complain about sibling preference. THAT is why there are so few spots in PK.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been in the neighborhood long enough (15 years) to know that there are boatloads of lovely people on the Hill, a great many generous and easy-going parents of toddlers and school-age kids with a big vision for humanity. The entitled crowd, including the type of parent hell bent on busting boundary cheaters and PC County address cheaters seeking a good ECE education for their kids, is comprised mainly by relatively recent arrivals, families who came and bought property within the last five years or so. The old timers learned to roll with the punches somewhere along the way. If they'd hadn't, they'd have left.

I've been here 15 years too (ok fine 14). Maybe it is different when they are taking your kid's spot. It is easy to be easy going when it doesn't directly effect you.

How in the hell can you know who "took" your kid's spot? You were #1 on a WL and you know an address cheater personally who got off the WL ahead of you? The spots they give away aren't numbered; in case where DCPS is auctioning off 28 PreK3 spots you can't find out who got took #28, that's not how it works. I know plenty of people on Cap Hill (self included) who were shut out of their ECE program in-boundary for a year or two, parents who know neighborhood address cheaters, and MD address cheaters for that matter, who have never bitched. They cheerfully got on with things elsewhere for PreK3 and sometimes PreK4, too. You play the hand you're dealt.

Easy there...

You are right, the spots aren't numbered 1-28. Therefore if any of those 28 kids was from a cheating family, they would be taking a spot from a kid on the WL.

Yes we had a low number and didn't get in. Yes we "played our hand," and everyone is fine. Still does not make it right for cheaters to cheat.

A great deal is not right in this picture, first and foremost that PG County not offering universal free PreK, or nearly enough Preschool spots to serve low-income families. In second place, I nominate DCPS for blithely allowing scores of elementary schools to continue to fail, with disastrous proficiency pass rates in the mix. Cheaters are just as likely to end up on the WL as to get in. You can note the immorality of cheaters cheating, or you can celebrate your singular access to non means-tested preschool and prek in every area of this great city but Upper NW. To my knowledge, no other American city offers this. You have Tommy Well's tireless advocacy to thank for the opportunity. I don't know a single family outside Upper NW who has been shut out at every preschool or prek within two miles of their house by the start of school in ten years of paying close attention to lottery results.

Come to the Hill where you can throw a rock and hit five families that have been shut out of ECE.

+1. This is my family. And with nothing low enough to give us any hope. I think a big part of the issue is that everywhere is filling up and so there are more people than ever in this boat.

if you want to complain about being "shut out," then complain about sibling preference. THAT is why there are so few spots in PK.

I agree - sibling preference should be scrapped, especially if you're OOB. No in-bound child should get sidelined for an OOB family's brother or sister. It's egregious.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been in the neighborhood long enough (15 years) to know that there are boatloads of lovely people on the Hill, a great many generous and easy-going parents of toddlers and school-age kids with a big vision for humanity. The entitled crowd, including the type of parent hell bent on busting boundary cheaters and PC County address cheaters seeking a good ECE education for their kids, is comprised mainly by relatively recent arrivals, families who came and bought property within the last five years or so. The old timers learned to roll with the punches somewhere along the way. If they'd hadn't, they'd have left.

I've been here 15 years too (ok fine 14). Maybe it is different when they are taking your kid's spot. It is easy to be easy going when it doesn't directly effect you.

How in the hell can you know who "took" your kid's spot? You were #1 on a WL and you know an address cheater personally who got off the WL ahead of you? The spots they give away aren't numbered; in case where DCPS is auctioning off 28 PreK3 spots you can't find out who got took #28, that's not how it works. I know plenty of people on Cap Hill (self included) who were shut out of their ECE program in-boundary for a year or two, parents who know neighborhood address cheaters, and MD address cheaters for that matter, who have never bitched. They cheerfully got on with things elsewhere for PreK3 and sometimes PreK4, too. You play the hand you're dealt.

Easy there...

You are right, the spots aren't numbered 1-28. Therefore if any of those 28 kids was from a cheating family, they would be taking a spot from a kid on the WL.

Yes we had a low number and didn't get in. Yes we "played our hand," and everyone is fine. Still does not make it right for cheaters to cheat.

A great deal is not right in this picture, first and foremost that PG County not offering universal free PreK, or nearly enough Preschool spots to serve low-income families. In second place, I nominate DCPS for blithely allowing scores of elementary schools to continue to fail, with disastrous proficiency pass rates in the mix. Cheaters are just as likely to end up on the WL as to get in. You can note the immorality of cheaters cheating, or you can celebrate your singular access to non means-tested preschool and prek in every area of this great city but Upper NW. To my knowledge, no other American city offers this. You have Tommy Well's tireless advocacy to thank for the opportunity. I don't know a single family outside Upper NW who has been shut out at every preschool or prek within two miles of their house by the start of school in ten years of paying close attention to lottery results.

Come to the Hill where you can throw a rock and hit five families that have been shut out of ECE.

+1. This is my family. And with nothing low enough to give us any hope. I think a big part of the issue is that everywhere is filling up and so there are more people than ever in this boat.

if you want to complain about being "shut out," then complain about sibling preference. THAT is why there are so few spots in PK.

That's a completely different issue. DC can decide for itself whether to allow sibling preference. Every single spot filled by a nonDC resident is a seat STOLEN from a DC resident.

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Try going into DC DMV and telling them that because of "cultural differences" and "informal arrangements" there are no "docs." How do you think that's going to work out?

I didn't think so.

So don't make the argument when it comes to the DC public and charter schools.

I know we've moved on but want to circle back here because I think it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding. Driving is not a legally protected right. Education is. As a result, housing insecure families are able to use whatever documents they have access to, which includes informal letters, to access that education. For the school system to require a level of documentation equivalent to the DMV of a family that is housing insecure, or has custody issues, would almost certainly bring a lawsuit.

Agreed. I mentioned the issue with homeless children and undocumented immigrants before. So a heightened level of proof on the front-end will not work. However, a heightened level of cross-check would work. For example, when it comes to wealthier people who have houses out of state, I think if their names are typed into a system and it shows that they have a MD/VA driver's license and filed their income or home taxes in other states, that is where the enforcement should come in.

And cross-checked against the list of DC government employees. I would think that residency fraud on DCPS/charters should be grounds for immediate dismissal from DC government service, apart from liability for avoided tuition and possible criminal penalties.

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Anonymous wrote:Another thing I'd like to point out: maybe it's the statehood thing that gives people in this area such a chip on their shoulder about the borders? But coming from New York City? You know, we'd JOKE about Staten Island, (an actual part of New York City), or New Jersey, or Long Island, Connecticut; but we would never go on such personal crusades against them. I'm sure there are residency cheaters there too--I knew a ton of people in Brooklyn (Note: I DID NOT DO THIS) who rented apartments to get their kids into 321 or 29; or who sublet apartments and used the addresses, used their parent's addresses, etc. I suppose they all are dirty cheating rule-breakers, but I never really gave a damn. I assumed that life was hard enough, short enough, and some things were not my business.

People here seem to spend so much time and energy whining about what they don't have, what other people have, and how unfair it all is. It makes this a really oppressive place to be. I'm considering moving us into Silver Spring, even if it would disrupt my children and their school where they are happy, simply because I am wondering if maybe people there are not quite so miserable and horrible? Thoughts? Is there anywhere in the DMV that isn't full of people shrieking about the people who live five blocks away over a border who are in some way, bad? You guys make Philadelphians look friendly.

Mr. Rogers is from Pittsburgh. I recommend moving there.

I would love to. Trust me, our entire family is poised to decamp from this hellhole if at all possible as soon as we can. Even the things that are relatively positive here are tainted with this aura of classism and entitlement and... all the whining. I am so tired of all the whining. We get it. You want stuff that you don't have. Why don't you have the stuff? Wah. Someone else has the stuff. Maybe they didn't work hard. Wah. Wah. Don't they know you went to Princeton?

Love it!!

So, what do you guys think? People SEEM nicer in Silver Spring. Is it the best I can do and still be commutable to downtown? It also, having its own industry, seems like it isn't as caught up in all this government political whiny bullshit. Gaithersburg was my other thought... maybe the tech corridor. I'd love to do Frederick, but it's just too far. I am not a suburban person. Our family wants nothing more on the weekend than to walk to a bookstore and have lunch at a decent pub. Anywhere else in the DMV away from these lobbyists with entiitlement issues where we can do that? Would also like old houses. And sidewalks.

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Anonymous wrote:Another thing I'd like to point out: maybe it's the statehood thing that gives people in this area such a chip on their shoulder about the borders? But coming from New York City? You know, we'd JOKE about Staten Island, (an actual part of New York City), or New Jersey, or Long Island, Connecticut; but we would never go on such personal crusades against them. I'm sure there are residency cheaters there too--I knew a ton of people in Brooklyn (Note: I DID NOT DO THIS) who rented apartments to get their kids into 321 or 29; or who sublet apartments and used the addresses, used their parent's addresses, etc. I suppose they all are dirty cheating rule-breakers, but I never really gave a damn. I assumed that life was hard enough, short enough, and some things were not my business.

People here seem to spend so much time and energy whining about what they don't have, what other people have, and how unfair it all is. It makes this a really oppressive place to be. I'm considering moving us into Silver Spring, even if it would disrupt my children and their school where they are happy, simply because I am wondering if maybe people there are not quite so miserable and horrible? Thoughts? Is there anywhere in the DMV that isn't full of people shrieking about the people who live five blocks away over a border who are in some way, bad? You guys make Philadelphians look friendly.

Mr. Rogers is from Pittsburgh. I recommend moving there.

I would love to. Trust me, our entire family is poised to decamp from this hellhole if at all possible as soon as we can. Even the things that are relatively positive here are tainted with this aura of classism and entitlement and... all the whining. I am so tired of all the whining. We get it. You want stuff that you don't have. Why don't you have the stuff? Wah. Someone else has the stuff. Maybe they didn't work hard. Wah. Wah. Don't they know you went to Princeton?

Leave already. Mortgage rates remain at historic lows. The only cities more expensive are San Francisco and New York. Somebody wants your crappy house, and nobody wants you - so just go.

Girl, don't go away mad; girl, just go away.

It's a real crime, seeing blondie quoted by a whiny entitled lobbyist who went to Princeton.

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Anonymous wrote:Another thing I'd like to point out: maybe it's the statehood thing that gives people in this area such a chip on their shoulder about the borders? But coming from New York City? You know, we'd JOKE about Staten Island, (an actual part of New York City), or New Jersey, or Long Island, Connecticut; but we would never go on such personal crusades against them. I'm sure there are residency cheaters there too--I knew a ton of people in Brooklyn (Note: I DID NOT DO THIS) who rented apartments to get their kids into 321 or 29; or who sublet apartments and used the addresses, used their parent's addresses, etc. I suppose they all are dirty cheating rule-breakers, but I never really gave a damn. I assumed that life was hard enough, short enough, and some things were not my business.

People here seem to spend so much time and energy whining about what they don't have, what other people have, and how unfair it all is. It makes this a really oppressive place to be. I'm considering moving us into Silver Spring, even if it would disrupt my children and their school where they are happy, simply because I am wondering if maybe people there are not quite so miserable and horrible? Thoughts? Is there anywhere in the DMV that isn't full of people shrieking about the people who live five blocks away over a border who are in some way, bad? You guys make Philadelphians look friendly.

Mr. Rogers is from Pittsburgh. I recommend moving there.

I would love to. Trust me, our entire family is poised to decamp from this hellhole if at all possible as soon as we can. Even the things that are relatively positive here are tainted with this aura of classism and entitlement and... all the whining. I am so tired of all the whining. We get it. You want stuff that you don't have. Why don't you have the stuff? Wah. Someone else has the stuff. Maybe they didn't work hard. Wah. Wah. Don't they know you went to Princeton?

Love it!!

So, what do you guys think? People SEEM nicer in Silver Spring. Is it the best I can do and still be commutable to downtown? It also, having its own industry, seems like it isn't as caught up in all this government political whiny bullshit. Gaithersburg was my other thought... maybe the tech corridor. I'd love to do Frederick, but it's just too far. I am not a suburban person. Our family wants nothing more on the weekend than to walk to a bookstore and have lunch at a decent pub. Anywhere else in the DMV away from these lobbyists with entiitlement issues where we can do that? Would also like old houses. And sidewalks.

Brooklyn. Williamsburg is calling your name. Your hipster bretheren will love you.

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Anonymous wrote:Another thing I'd like to point out: maybe it's the statehood thing that gives people in this area such a chip on their shoulder about the borders? But coming from New York City? You know, we'd JOKE about Staten Island, (an actual part of New York City), or New Jersey, or Long Island, Connecticut; but we would never go on such personal crusades against them. I'm sure there are residency cheaters there too--I knew a ton of people in Brooklyn (Note: I DID NOT DO THIS) who rented apartments to get their kids into 321 or 29; or who sublet apartments and used the addresses, used their parent's addresses, etc. I suppose they all are dirty cheating rule-breakers, but I never really gave a damn. I assumed that life was hard enough, short enough, and some things were not my business.

People here seem to spend so much time and energy whining about what they don't have, what other people have, and how unfair it all is. It makes this a really oppressive place to be. I'm considering moving us into Silver Spring, even if it would disrupt my children and their school where they are happy, simply because I am wondering if maybe people there are not quite so miserable and horrible? Thoughts? Is there anywhere in the DMV that isn't full of people shrieking about the people who live five blocks away over a border who are in some way, bad? You guys make Philadelphians look friendly.

Mr. Rogers is from Pittsburgh. I recommend moving there.

I would love to. Trust me, our entire family is poised to decamp from this hellhole if at all possible as soon as we can. Even the things that are relatively positive here are tainted with this aura of classism and entitlement and... all the whining. I am so tired of all the whining. We get it. You want stuff that you don't have. Why don't you have the stuff? Wah. Someone else has the stuff. Maybe they didn't work hard. Wah. Wah. Don't they know you went to Princeton?

Love it!!

So, what do you guys think? People SEEM nicer in Silver Spring. Is it the best I can do and still be commutable to downtown? It also, having its own industry, seems like it isn't as caught up in all this government political whiny bullshit. Gaithersburg was my other thought... maybe the tech corridor. I'd love to do Frederick, but it's just too far. I am not a suburban person. Our family wants nothing more on the weekend than to walk to a bookstore and have lunch at a decent pub. Anywhere else in the DMV away from these lobbyists with entiitlement issues where we can do that? Would also like old houses. And sidewalks.

Brooklyn. Williamsburg is calling your name. Your hipster bretheren will love you.

I spent the 90s there and almost sent my kids to 84, except we moved. But thanks. It is utterly insuffrable there too, of course; but at least people have actual jobs, and healthier senses of humor. And yes, I never thought I'd see the day when I called being a stylist an actual job, but the career choices of career politicians make you realize exactly how little is done by so, so many people.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been in the neighborhood long enough (15 years) to know that there are boatloads of lovely people on the Hill, a great many generous and easy-going parents of toddlers and school-age kids with a big vision for humanity. The entitled crowd, including the type of parent hell bent on busting boundary cheaters and PC County address cheaters seeking a good ECE education for their kids, is comprised mainly by relatively recent arrivals, families who came and bought property within the last five years or so. The old timers learned to roll with the punches somewhere along the way. If they'd hadn't, they'd have left.

I've been here 15 years too (ok fine 14). Maybe it is different when they are taking your kid's spot. It is easy to be easy going when it doesn't directly effect you.

How in the hell can you know who "took" your kid's spot? You were #1 on a WL and you know an address cheater personally who got off the WL ahead of you? The spots they give away aren't numbered; in case where DCPS is auctioning off 28 PreK3 spots you can't find out who got took #28, that's not how it works. I know plenty of people on Cap Hill (self included) who were shut out of their ECE program in-boundary for a year or two, parents who know neighborhood address cheaters, and MD address cheaters for that matter, who have never bitched. They cheerfully got on with things elsewhere for PreK3 and sometimes PreK4, too. You play the hand you're dealt.

Easy there...

You are right, the spots aren't numbered 1-28. Therefore if any of those 28 kids was from a cheating family, they would be taking a spot from a kid on the WL.

Yes we had a low number and didn't get in. Yes we "played our hand," and everyone is fine. Still does not make it right for cheaters to cheat.

A great deal is not right in this picture, first and foremost that PG County not offering universal free PreK, or nearly enough Preschool spots to serve low-income families. In second place, I nominate DCPS for blithely allowing scores of elementary schools to continue to fail, with disastrous proficiency pass rates in the mix. Cheaters are just as likely to end up on the WL as to get in. You can note the immorality of cheaters cheating, or you can celebrate your singular access to non means-tested preschool and prek in every area of this great city but Upper NW. To my knowledge, no other American city offers this. You have Tommy Well's tireless advocacy to thank for the opportunity. I don't know a single family outside Upper NW who has been shut out at every preschool or prek within two miles of their house by the start of school in ten years of paying close attention to lottery results.

Come to the Hill where you can throw a rock and hit five families that have been shut out of ECE.

+1. This is my family. And with nothing low enough to give us any hope. I think a big part of the issue is that everywhere is filling up and so there are more people than ever in this boat.

if you want to complain about being "shut out," then complain about sibling preference. THAT is why there are so few spots in PK.

I agree - sibling preference should be scrapped, especially if you're OOB. No in-bound child should get sidelined for an OOB family's brother or sister. It's egregious.

err, you know that's not the way it works, right? ... OOB w/sib comes after IB in the priority order (IB w/sib is first & OOB is behind OOB w/sib) ... they're suggesting eliminating IB sib pref for ECE and giving all IB the same odds

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Anonymous wrote:I've been in the neighborhood long enough (15 years) to know that there are boatloads of lovely people on the Hill, a great many generous and easy-going parents of toddlers and school-age kids with a big vision for humanity. The entitled crowd, including the type of parent hell bent on busting boundary cheaters and PC County address cheaters seeking a good ECE education for their kids, is comprised mainly by relatively recent arrivals, families who came and bought property within the last five years or so. The old timers learned to roll with the punches somewhere along the way. If they'd hadn't, they'd have left.

I've been here 15 years too (ok fine 14). Maybe it is different when they are taking your kid's spot. It is easy to be easy going when it doesn't directly effect you.

How in the hell can you know who "took" your kid's spot? You were #1 on a WL and you know an address cheater personally who got off the WL ahead of you? The spots they give away aren't numbered; in case where DCPS is auctioning off 28 PreK3 spots you can't find out who got took #28, that's not how it works. I know plenty of people on Cap Hill (self included) who were shut out of their ECE program in-boundary for a year or two, parents who know neighborhood address cheaters, and MD address cheaters for that matter, who have never bitched. They cheerfully got on with things elsewhere for PreK3 and sometimes PreK4, too. You play the hand you're dealt.

Why shouldn't the person committing residency fraud have to play the hand they are dealt? Why should I just suck it up and pay for two more years of daycare while a person from PG County takes my spot at a Hill school? I have no problem standing in line behind DC residents who got a better lottery number than me, but I don't think I should have to suck it up and stand behind cheaters.

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PPs who want sibling preference scrapped surely don't have siblings attending the same school. Dropping off the kids at the same place and dealing with one administration is a huge help to young families. It's also helpful to the school, because parents who are charging between schools for drop-off and pick-up are stressed out, and less likely to help out than those who aren't charging between schools. The window for picking kids up at the end of the school day is usually just 15 minutes. If an individual parents can't make it from one school to another 15 minutes, things get complicated for the parent, child and school. I can't see sibling preference being scrapped. The political momentum for it isn't going to build. Single parents (and many low-income parents are single parents) would suffer the most.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been in the neighborhood long enough (15 years) to know that there are boatloads of lovely people on the Hill, a great many generous and easy-going parents of toddlers and school-age kids with a big vision for humanity. The entitled crowd, including the type of parent hell bent on busting boundary cheaters and PC County address cheaters seeking a good ECE education for their kids, is comprised mainly by relatively recent arrivals, families who came and bought property within the last five years or so. The old timers learned to roll with the punches somewhere along the way. If they'd hadn't, they'd have left.

I've been here 15 years too (ok fine 14). Maybe it is different when they are taking your kid's spot. It is easy to be easy going when it doesn't directly effect you.

How in the hell can you know who "took" your kid's spot? You were #1 on a WL and you know an address cheater personally who got off the WL ahead of you? The spots they give away aren't numbered; in case where DCPS is auctioning off 28 PreK3 spots you can't find out who got took #28, that's not how it works. I know plenty of people on Cap Hill (self included) who were shut out of their ECE program in-boundary for a year or two, parents who know neighborhood address cheaters, and MD address cheaters for that matter, who have never bitched. They cheerfully got on with things elsewhere for PreK3 and sometimes PreK4, too. You play the hand you're dealt.

Why shouldn't the person committing residency fraud have to play the hand they are dealt? Why should I just suck it up and pay for two more years of daycare while a person from PG County takes my spot at a Hill school? I have no problem standing in line behind DC residents who got a better lottery number than me, but I don't think I should have to suck it up and stand behind cheaters.

OK, so what's your plan to avoid sucking it up if you lack lottery luck? Sue?

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OK, so what's your plan to avoid sucking it up if you lack lottery luck? Sue?

Obviously, her plan is to whine. Duh.

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Ha, the GOP's new platform opposes publicly funded PK on the grounds that it is a "government intrusion" into the family. http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F49%2F%3Fuuid%3D59205.

It's so obvious what the Daily Caller's agenda is ...