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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you care about overcrowding at J-R, then you should support this effort.

It'll be interesting to see the results.  Maybe it will make little difference, or maybe lots of people are unable to meet the burden of proof.[/quote]

+1. DC is the only place I’ve ever lived where people routinely get upset when the prospect of enforcing rules and laws comes up. I don’t understand why this is, but this is why we can’t have nice things. I’m not IB for JR but the amount of Maryland plates I see dropping kids off at multiple schools in my neighborhood certainly warrants further attention. [/quote]

There’s a small core of white UMC parents in DC committing boundary fraud who sincerely believe they are entitled to do it because they deserve the “good” school where other white kids go. They can’t accept a scenario where their actual economic status means that their neighborhood school (here or in MD or VA) is not “the best” school. [/quote]

And there’s a much larger core of brown DC parents that sincerely believe their kids deserve to go to the schools they grew up in, but are now priced out of. Or fully appreciate the importance of getting their kids into a different peer group.

In a system based on luck and chance, I don’t judge anyone, regardless of their background, for making luck work in their favor. Fix the system then nobody will have to feel like they have to choose between their child’s education and playing by the rules.[/quote]

I have never met white parents cheating the boundaries.  I have met brown parents doing it.  It's a sense of entitlement to going to school in areas they once lived in.  This is why the boundary fraud has been tolerated for so long.  There's some sympathy for the situation and desire for the school to be more diverse.[/quote]

I thought the residency fraud issues are folks from PG county and the boundary ones are white parents who want to go to Deal/JR? [/quote]

Why did you think that?[/quote]

Because people quite openly post here about the latter, and you can read about the former when they get convicted. [/quote]

The people who post here are not representative of the city at large.[/quote]

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