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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I do believe there is residency fraud. However, I believe this reporter out right lied in this article. How many people would stop and share their family situations with a stranger? Would any of you? And he states that he pulled tax records among other things to determine their lack of residency. Who gave them the names to pull? How many people would share their names with a stranger standing on the street asking questions. [/quote]

You don't need a name if you have an address. [/quote]

They followed these people to their home. Once you have the address, you can pull all sorts of property and tax records from the District and MD county websites. Then once you have a name, you can cross-reference it with property in the District. They can also then look up marriage and divorce records to establish the household make-up.

My guess is that these parents didn't willingly volunteer information. More likely is that they were ambushed by these reporters with rhetorical questions - "Why do you live in MD and send your child to school in DC? Are you paying tuition to DCPS? Can you confirm that you are Joe Smith that works at the Department of Labor?" - that the reporters already knew the answers to. Using public records, you can easily figure out with 95% certainty if someone is a cheater. If these parents work for the government, they're even dumber - all their salary info is public record.[/quote]

So why doesn't OSSE do this level of investigation?[/quote]
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The Chancellor does't give them the resources. [/b]There's a lot of solidly middle class and UMC families that would get caught up in the investigations. These people are fellow church goers and relatives of DC pols, business folks, and bureaucrats. And there is certainly a very strong element that folks who left the District but grew up here still have "rights" to their old block and former schools. Lots of messy inter-personal relationships that just make it easier to ignore the problem.

Plus, DCPS is primarily spending Federal government money. The more kids in the system, the more DCPS pulls from Congress. They have every incentive to keep headcount high.

Finally, I think there is a feeling that kids in PG County are getting shafted by the MD state government. District pols feel the need to protect those kids and families by offering them District resources.[/quote]

I was going to say that you should have stopped with the first sentence because it was the only thing even approaching reality in your entire post, but even that sentence was the dregs of PulledOutofMyAss.com.

I'll confess that even I didn't know what the Office of the State Superintendent of Education did until your bullshit post set off alarms. If you can read text for the amount of time that it took you to post your made-up rationale, you might come to the conclusion that OSSE's mission has several high-cost priorities in front of catching resident fraudsters.

I realize that, in the Age of Trump,  I'm in the minority of American citizens who want to create [i]more taxpaying citizens [/i]than mouth-breathing, hate-filled, criminally-minded people who couldn't hold a job with a gun to their heads BUT it has to be said with purpose and whatnot that the creation of said tax-paying citizens is the primary objective of OSSE and I'm fine with that.  So fine, in fact, that I have no problem with them focusing on the tens of thousands of kids in my city of choice who have limited prospects of gaining or holding down a job that will actually pay taxes.  Fuck whatever the federal government will actually come up with because our passel of brainiac lawmakers can't even figure out that preventing birth defects (or HEY, unwanted births) is a cost-saving measure - for all of us.

All of which is to say, that I, along with the majority of your tax-paying comrades, have no interest in paying for the extra resources required to police residency fraud.  The funds cooped in penalty come no where near the the investment in resources.  You would need an entire department, pay their salaries, benefits, administrative costs to chase down 3-5 families per school, per year.  If you made it 10 families, the chances of you finding and capturing that much fraud actually goes down.  There would be fewer people caught.  Fewer still who would actually repay the debt.

The OSSE budget is not decided by the Chancellor.  The mayor submits a budget proposal each year, and our sorry-ass City Council decides what the budget will be.  If you tihnk that wastefulness and nepotism is just a character trait of the DC government, you're a naive little cog in politics much larger than your tiny existence.  But if you're going to gripe about how it all works, at least take the time to understand how it all works.

In the scheme of things, I think we would be so much better off if more people could at least do that.[/quote]

The poster you're responding to made so much more sense than your stream of consciousness.  I can't decipher it.
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DP, Yeah but that poster pulled all her made up thoughts out of the limp side of her arse. And the PP you think you are chastising made sense. Bottom line is that the chancellor does not allocate the resources and limp arse should have known that before she made all her other ridiculous statements. [/quote]

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