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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We felt similar to how you felt and left DC. DH and I are an interracial couple. We were very discouraged so we left for Howard County. I attended DCPS when I was a child but when I attended it was with mostly MD children whose parents worked in the city back when DCPS didn’t care to follow residency rules. I attended Stevens elementary (old building on L street), Francis and SWW. The lottery was supposed to bring “equity” but all it brought was stress and delusion for the masses. As we saw with the lottery related scandals [b]those with access to power or wealth were able to navigate around “equitable” practices. 
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We decided to stop stressing and just move. We didn’t want to move but the idea of applying via lottery every year in hopes of “leveling up”  would be stressful & time consuming.

Your numbers are pretty high but if your family is stuck on staying in the District I would suggest calling the school over the summer occasionally to see if a spot opens up.   [/quote]

A vast majority of residency or lottery fraud cases do not involve "those with access to power or wealth." For every Antwan Wilson, Rashad Young or Courtney Snowden, there are 100 Maryland residents who at best are middle class and simply try to cheat the system because it's convenient for their jobs (as city employees, MPD officers, whatever).[/quote]

I watched the SWW video for the high school to get a sense of the school.   They show kids arriving and departing.   One kid gets out of a BMW with Maryland plates.  The school really should have done a hard audit for anyone in the video as there were multiple kids getting in and out of cars with MMD plates.[/quote]

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