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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Robert White: "I don't know how we resolve this without a lawsuit." And so we go . . .[/quote]

The question is who would have standing to sue? It would have to be someone directly impacted. So a member of an organization that should have been given higher priority than Maret who applied for a permit and was denied in favor of Maret. It's not going to be a DC agency because the city can't sue itself, it's unlikely to be a programmatic partner, so it would have to be a youth non-profit benefiting principally DC residents. I would say a PTA/PTO would qualify for that. [/quote]

An individual Hardy or SWW family would have standing.

Does the District's OIG have grounds to investigate?[/quote]

I’d love to see the OIG on behalf of DCPS Washington DC-resident families sue all of the Maryland students and their parents for theft of services for fraudulently enrolling in DC schools. Imagine the $$$ damages.[/quote]

Do we know how many Hardy students aren’t just out of boundary, but residents of outside DC? [/quote]

More smokescreen.[/quote]

Not at all. It was a talking point being screamed out that Maret had only 62 percent DC residents. But that total is more than the whole population of Hardy. It seems like Maret haters keep trying to throw as much mud to the walls to see what will stick and then change the topic when their hypocrisy is brought to light. If it’s important that certain areas in DC are used for DC residents only as Hardy boosters or Kishan boosters or Elizabeth Miller boosters or crack election staffs have insisted, then it’s a fair question about Hardy. Unless that talking point that was SOOOO IMPORTANT last week to the argument against Maret no longer matters?[/quote]

You're being a troll.[/quote]

Nah. Just pointing out a talking point being used to smear a school that now magically doesn’t matter! It’s a miracle! So to summarize, it doesn’t matter if kids are DC residents who use Jelleff. Glad to know that talking point of extraordinary importance has vanished. [/quote]

It’s a question.  Remember that up to 4O percent of Ellington kids may be fraudulently enrolled from Maryland.  Add to that number the out of state kids who are there officially because their parents are supposed to be paying tuition, and we’re lucky if 50 percent of Ellington students even live in DC.  Although the picture at Hardy is likely to be better, there are still a lot of Maryland kids getting a free education on the DC taxpayers’ dime.

Just goes to show that people who live in glass houses ....[/quote]

I don't know why you think this is damning.  If there's fraud then, hell yes, they should be found and prosecuted.  Even if it's only uncovered due to angry maret supporters being soiteful, that's still a good thing. It'd be ironic but that doesn't matter.  There's a fundamental difference between.a public and a private school.

We have to provide these things for the public schools.  It costs us a lot of money to do that and it's a good thing to do.  What's more, it is absolutely essential to do so for the eonomic health and development of the city.   Maret made out like bandits under the original deal.  It's time to share the public parks.  [/quote]

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