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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really hope some of you don’t start following random grannies just to out the OP...

...wouldn’t surprise me in Trumps America.[/quote]

oh stfu about Trump. [b]OP is taking a spot away from a poor kid - she's literally buying a spot in a better school likely in part due to her own racism about the Shaw schools. [/b]

also it was OP who asked is it fraud. we're just answering the question. [/quote]

I also don’t like residency fraud (including arrangements like OP’s) for this reason—it means poor/middle class kids are less likely to lottery into good schools—but also for admittedly selfish reasons.

+1.  Our IB is has a growing percentage of IB families, although much lower IB overall than the JKLMs.  When people like OP pull these sorts of shenanigans, it means that other IB families that actually live in the neighborhood are more likely to get waitlisted for PK3/4.  When this happens, they go to other schools, like HRCS.  Once they start down a different path, some stay on it.  That means fewer actual IB families at the school.  OP and others like her undermine the sense of community that comes with families in the same neighborhood at the school.  Families doing what OP is doing are less likely to make the trek across town for evening school activities, no play dates since they don’t want to give away their arrangement, no bumping into each other at the playground, etc.

This is why I find what OP is doing annoying—both for the “buying” her way into a school, and the undermined sense of community at our neighborhood school.  I’m not annoyed enough to follow them home or report them, but TBH I wouldn’t mind if someone else did.[/quote]

Come on, the grandmother will be in the hood, presumably for many years, taking care of the child after school.  I seldom have time for PTA meetings, chaperoning field trips, parents' breakfasts at the school etc., but my mom, who lives nearer to our school than I do, goes to all that stuff for the family, and loves it.  She's normally the one who bumps into my children's classmates at neighborhood playgrounds. What I find annoying is when vigilante parents start hassling parents who own IB. Go ahead, report moms like OP.  You might be doing them a favor.  They'll get cleared if they have a stack of residency docs, and own IB without renting a place out. Then they can go on their merry way. [/quote]

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