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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is boundary fraud actually widespread?  Seems like the CH families (not a charter or DCPS application school) now largely go to MacArthur HS which is open enrollment in the school lottery.[/quote]

I don't think boundary fraud is widespread, for a variety of reasons including the fact that people might find out and it puts your kid in a terrible position. We know multiple people who could have done it (because a relative lives IB for a very desirable school) but chose not to for this specific reason -- they didn't want to have to lie to fellow families at the school, and they especially didn't want their kids to lie (or to lie to their kids).

But even if it's not widespread or enforced, it doesn't make it good. It's one thing to argue that it's not worth discussing because it's fairly rare. Fair enough. But I don't understand the people arguing on the thread that it's actually fine. It's obviously not -- it exacerbates some existing problems within DCPS (like overcrowding at some schools and under enrollment at other, the lack of community at many schools). And it's just dishonest.

I'm not running around trying to hunt down boundary cheats and report them, but some of the comments on this thread in support of the practice are insane. [b]No. It's unethical and wrong. I'm never going to say it's okay, there is always a better answer.[/b][/quote]

Who asked you what it is?  The "better answer" you're looking for is a school system with many more high-performing schools across the board than ours in the District. What's insane is that a small number of boundary cheats are the object of your ire when the crux of the problem is obviously there's just one UMC-friendly neighborhood high school in the whole city, J-R.

A few pages back, somebody posted about Blair Montgomery in MoCo being a high school to avoid in the 80s but an in-demand program by the 90s, after the county established test-in magnet programs there with a county-wide draw. We don't have high schools turning around like that in the District because our ed leaders don't give a hoot if UMC families have access to 6th-12th grade they're satisfied with. Things were better EotP before Covid, when the strongest 8th grade students had access to Walls, before Bowser ensured that their entrance exam was scrapped. She also made sure that the admissions requirement that each applicant submit a standardized test score like PARCC or the PSAT ended. Banneker's admissions people don't even check if an applicant took advanced math in 8th grade. We know straight-A 8th graders taking geometry and algebra II who were turned away at Banneker even as applicants struggling in pre-algebra were admitted. What a system.

Fuss all you want about a few boundary cheaters. Hint: that focus is getting you nowhere. [/quote]

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