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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fact is that if you own a residential property, get utilities bills in your name there, file DC taxes there and collect mail there regularly, you can use the address to enroll your kid in a DCPS school. No obligation to get on a megaphone to fellow parents shouting about where you sleep. No need to respond to attempts to shame you for fraud. You don't need to train your kid to lie about where you live. Train them to change the subject instead. To pull it off, you can rent out the place discretely, but need moxie and discretion to pull it off. We know CH families who've done just that for many years. Other parents tend to assume they got spots at the schools where they enrolled through the lottery. Did the boundary cheaters feel guilty? I doubt it. Where DCPS is happy to have families buying 1.5 million $ 3-BR houses where by-right elementary schools stink in the upper grades, e.g. Watkins, Payne, Miner and JO Wilson, some parents are going to get resourceful without guilt, shame or fear. It also happens in NYC. Don't like it? Too bad. Please move to the burbs where boundary cheaters are v. rare because almost all neighborhood elementary schools are acceptable to UMC families.[/quote]

DCPS is investing a ton of money in a brand new renovation of JO Wilson (basically a brand new school -- they are utilizing the existing superstructure and foundation but nothing else). Time will tell if it convinces any of the people in $1.5million (or more) row houses to send their kids there instead of Two Rivers. [b]But at least in that case, I think it's very hard to argue that DCPS is not making the investment.[/b][/quote]

Have you ever been asked by DCPS about what sort of investment you'd like them to make in JO Wilson or any other program?  [i]It's very hard to argue that DCPS gives a hoot what IB parents want.[/i] If you doubt this, try to booking after-school Mathansium sessions for your kid at their center on Penn. Ave SE between 6th and 7th. They're mostly booked up weeks in advance because math instruction in DCPS leaves a lot to be desired, even at the in-demand schools the boundary cheaters go for. The only real challenge my kids have had in math has come from Mathnasium, IXL and Khan Academy, not their Ward 6 DCPS school (where poor kids are represented in the single digits).  [/quote]

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