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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why have you decided your "conscience is clean" before knowing the rules?[/quote]

My conscience is clean because I'm currently supporting the public school system through my substantial tax contributions, which is just fine by me, and I'm willing to continue doing it, but I'd like to also get some benefit from it. I do OK in terms of income, and I choose to live in an "up-and-coming" part of the city, [b]because I don't believe in well-off people segregating themselves in their Georgetown or Kalorama islands of privilege.[/b] I want my daughter to be exposed to a richer, more diverse social environment than she currently gets at her $4K/month private school, but I'm not willing to sacrifice the quality of her education. If I can spend $1,500 on rent instead, and send her to a good public school that I'm already paying for, I won't feel an ounce of guilt about it.[/quote]

OP please be sure to talk about "well-off people segregating themselves in their islands of privilege" with the families at the school you are going to cheat to get into, that will go over well.  Newsflash-- most of these people chose to live in the neighborhood solely based on the schools, not because they want to segregate themselves.  We'd all love there to be a magical neighborhood with a diverse population, a metro stop, cool bars and restaurants, and awesome schools, but it doesn't exist.  So you give up certain things to get your top priority.  In our case, that was education.  You have chosen other priorities but now want to cheat to get the education.  Doesn't work that way.[/quote]

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