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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would your kid need to lie about where they live? My kid has friends who don’t live in bounds (they don’t lie about where they live or change the subject so I know where they live) and I assume they lotteried in or used to live in bounds.  Are people really out there trying to figure these things out about other people? If so, mind your business. [/quote]

No shortage of busybody parents of little kids on CH, where my spouse and I have lived for 30 years, particularly in the school communities for the most desirable in-boundary elementary schools (read Brent, Maury, maybe Ludlow).

Just look at the responses to posts that do no more than explain where the boundary "fudging" phenomenon/mentality originates. PPs are called "trash" for their explanations on the assumption that they're boundary cheaters (good chance that they aren't).

We're OOB for Brent, living a couple blocks outside the boundary in NE. We lotteried in late in the game. I find it useful not to talk about where we live w/IB Brent parents.

The harsh reality is that many of the Ward 6 DCPS elementary schools are still fine for ECE and maybe 1st and 2nd grade. But by around 3rd grade high performing kids tend to get bored, there are too many disruptive kids in class, teachers and admins don't always treat white and Asian parents well. Raise issues of concern with teachers and admins, however politely and legitimately, and you may well be treated like an entitled pest.

We know parents who've bailed from JO Wilson, Payne, Watkins and Miner in the lower grades, thrilled to land at thoroughly gentrified Brent, Maury, Ludlow. Who know, maybe some of them are...egad, boundary cheaters owning two Hill houses.  [/quote]

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