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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sometimes wonder if there's a correlation between the increasing numbers of white families moving to DC, and the increased concern about residency fraud.  [/quote]

So you're saying white people are more likely to hold their local government accountable? Strange line of reasoning.

It has less to do with white people and more to do with the fact that the city is undergoing school-age population growth, especially among higher SES groups from all ethnic backgrounds. For about 50 years, those groups large refrained from raising kids in DC proper and instead went to the MoCo and Nova (publics) or PG county (privates).

With the growing population, there is increased competition for a small number of seats at established schools with good test scores. Complicating this are two issues: 1) free pre-K and the high demand to get into your neighborhood school that outstrips supply of seats and 2) the charters which have an incentive to ignore cheaters. Thus, the onus is largely on the parents to police bad actors.

Further, the DC government has not kept up with the changing mentality of DC parents. They expect more responsiveness and more adherence to norms. The DC government's mindset lags the DC population's mindset by 10-15 years.[/quote]

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