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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC public isn't furnishing nearly enough high-quality neighborhood schools to meet local demand.

Here on Cap Hill we've got thriving DCPS schools like SWS, Maury and Brent near disastrous schools like Tyler Traditional, Payne and Miner, with CAS pass rates in the 30s and huge OOB populations.  And many wonder if Watkins is still a viable option.  Most neighborhood parents feel that they can't use the struggling schools past their early childhood programs.

With more and more parents getting shut out of the charter lotteries, is it any wonder that some gentrifiers who can't afford privates become inventive in enrolling their kids in public schools stay in their homes?  DCPS doesn't appear to care which public ES lawful DC taxpayers send their children to.  If they did, it wouldn't be so easy to fudge enrollment.  They obviously need ask parents for more registration documents, on top of pay stubs, utilities bills and leases, e.g. vehicle registration, voter registration, HUD home purchase documents and deeds (commonly used to prove residency in the burbs).

I'm not sure how honest PPs on this thread have been about their motives for wanting DCPS to crack down on DC resident address cheaters (vs. PG County cheaters).  I'm guessing that most are furious about having been shut out of preschool and/or prek at their in-boundary schools WotP by bad lottery odds cheaters help create.  EotP, quality early childhood slots just aren't that hard to find - AppleTree Oklahoma Ave., a fine program, has open spots right now.  Nobody who isn't super picky ends up out in the cold before K.

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Just to weigh in on who cares.  I am a parent of children currently in our IB WOTP elementary schools.  This is not about my children getting cut off from pre-K.  The issue is not pre-K.  It is that there is a set of rules that families rely on when making their decisions, many families in our school make lots of sacrifices to go to our school.  Certainly we could have afforded a nicer house EOTP than what we purchased for our money in AU Park and this was some years ago, we chose commute and school quality over the size or aesthetic quality of a home.  We gave up the urban living of our pre-children days.  I get that many schools within DCPS are unacceptable and DCPS needs to fix that, but everyone that is commenting on this knew (or should have known) the quality of the schools when they were looking for a place to live and made choices accordingly.  Some people took chances that charters would be the answer, others had other strategies I don't know about or just delayed addressing the issue.  I object to lying and cheating as a practice to get around rules to obtain what you think you are entitled to ahead of other people that are following the rules.    [/quote]

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