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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

+1. 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.

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.  [b]I’m not annoyed enough to follow them home or report them, but TBH I wouldn’t mind if someone else did.[/b]
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Not impressed. You read this sort of wimpy post on most of the threads about school residency.  Why not put your money where your mouth is?  Follow them "home," report them, film them, chat with your principal etc. rather than hoping somebody else will. Alternatively, live and let live, since you can't get families that own IB and don't rent their places out busted, not under the current residency verification system.[/quote]

Sure you could. “Where do the children sleep?” The end. [/quote]

What do you know about residency fraud investigations?  You've been investigated?  We were, this year.  We offered to have DCPS do a home visit but they declined. They just wanted more residency verification docs immediately.  The investigator asked no questions. We handed over the docs she wanted and were cleared on the spot.  Friends had a similar experience.  [/quote]

In a year where the AG just brought several residency fraud cases, I'd hardly be so sanguine.  The ultimate charge is different, but the cases filed by Racine pretty clearly shows that he considers knowingly putting the wrong address on the form to be deliberately lying.  [/quote]

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