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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmmmm...let's do this instead: take your highly paid wrath and organize the highly paid parents around you to subsidize some apartments that are actually affordable in the Janney boundary for those making less than $48,000 per year.

Here's the deal: DC has a real affordable housing problem.  We have children living in shelters because their parents can't pay the rent even though 80% of them work.  So then poor people move to the suburbs but still want to use city services.  Clearly you have some free time on your hands.  Use this time to work on the real problem: poor folks who can't afford day care also can't afford to live in DC, while those of us who can afford day care are getting free day care while living in our expensive homes.

Shift the problem on its head: support fair wages and mixed income housing to welcome back some who were pushed out to undesirable suburbs over the past 15 years.  Then you will see the Maryland plates turn back into DC plates.  [/quote]

But, if they live in the suburbs, why don't they want to use suburban services?  I live in PG county.  We have schools out here. My kids go to one and they are very happy. There isn't really any reason for someone from MD to use a school in DC.  They live in MD and pay taxes in MD and can go to school in MD.  I don't understand the argument that they have to use DC schools because they have no other option.  DC services are really not any better than the services available where they actually live. [/quote]

This isn't exactly true. My kids go to DCPS and I've done extensive research throughout PGCPS schools. While some PGCPS schools are just fine, there are others that are truly horrific. In addition, the per-pupil expenditure for PGCPS is exceptionally low leading to overcrowding and lack of basic services in some schools. Basically, these families are going because they get free PS-3 or PK-4 and full-day kindergarten (which has traditionally not been provided by PGCPS). In addition, aftercare is either very inexpensive or free. Title I services for PGCPS schools are limited to an exceptionally small number of schools compared to DCPS where a community model has been put in place. Finally, if the parents work in DC they can pick the kids up 30 to 45 minutes earlier than they could if they had the kids in their home school.

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Janney doesn't have PS3 and it's difficult to get into a PK 4 without sibling preference, so thats not relevant to this thread. Also, DC only recently started universal PS3. this MD cheating argument has come up every year on DCUM, and I have been reading it for five years. It will come up again this time next year. [/quote]

I think the discussion had expanded to encompass residency cheating in general. While there may be one rogue cheat at Janney there are many in other schools and PK 4 has been in existence for years. I also reference my point about full day K and low-cost before and aftercare. Thus the conditions I outlined in my previous post stand. You may think that PGCPS is better than DCPS but, in reality, you're largely educating the same SES profile (at least down county). Ward nine, baby.[/quote]

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