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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I care.  I am floored by the fact that several of my supposedly progressive friends do this and believe it is no big deal.  They are literally taking free quality education away from a poor kid so they can save a few bucks.

This kind of hypocrisy is one of the many reasons why so many people are disenchanted with elites of all political stripes.  
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Op. Exactly this is one reason why I'm upset. I'm not out to get anyone who has uncertain circumstances due to covid or is facing homelessness for any reason. And while its wrong for a janitor to use a closet as an address I do understand why that happens. But I'm upset that people buying a house for over one million would do this.  They are cheating everyone!  And they'll do it for kid #2 as well. [/quote]

We have several wealthy friends in DCPS and the charters and if I found out they were doing this, I would confront them. As other PP have noted, this is a complicated time and a lot of families have complicated situations at the moment. But if I knew for certain the family was just straight up committing boundary fraud, I think I'd have to report.

You hear white parents in DC complain all the time about their suspicion that parents living in PG county are committing fraud to enroll their kids in DCPS. And those are situations where often it's a fuzzy situation (parents are divorced and kid is enrolled via non-custodial parent's residency, for instance). The idea of be bothered by that but not being livid at wealthy DC residents exploiting the fact that they own an investment property to sneak their kids into a "better" school... it makes me really angry.

Education in DC isn't even remotely fair to children even when people follow the rules. The least we could do is actually enforce those rules against the people who already benefit from the inequities and are just trying to weasel some extra value out of the system for themselves.[/quote]

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