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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We know a couple families at Brent in the upper grades who are probably boundary cheaters.They knock themselves out to keep up multiple row houses within half a mile of campus and to help the PTA. They didn’t take scarce ECE spots. I’ve never heard chatter about their residency situation. It’s not interesting to those of us who’ve been in the neighborhood for eons. We’d rather have them stick around than move to VA. Eyebrows may be raised in the part of relative newcomers to CH but the old guard doesn’t mind.[/quote]

I've lived in CH for 13 years, I don't know if that makes me old guard or newcomer, but my own experience with schools and the lottery on the Hill makes me extremely resentful of this behavior. We ARE looking to move to the suburbs, in large part because of schools and the difficulty of getting into a decent elementary via lottery.

If you don't happen to own a second property on the Hill IB for a better school, and you strike out with the lottery, you are stuck with you IB. If on top of that, there are IB families who care about education and are involved with their school, but do this for LT/Brent which they get into by lying about their residence in forms, their refusal to actually attend and invest in their IB makes it harder to improve the IB.

Also, the defensive but hostile stance on this thread from boundary cheaters is deeply unpleasant and makes me like these neighbors even less.

Don't worry, I'm sure the feeling is mutual. Bye, I guess. Enjoy the dysfunctional education system you've arranged for yourselves here.[/quote]'

I really hate the word and the notion that some parents are required to "invest" in a school.[/quote]

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