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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is all a little like the voter fraud issue.  The numbers of actual voter fraud are so small as to have no impact  but the psychology of it is outsized and says way more about this country' s scare resources (and the lopsided dispersal of these resources) than about any real problem that needs to be solved or addressed.  [/quote]

+1 Like Reagan's welfare queen. She existed, but the truth was so distorted. I think this is going on with a [i]small[/i] number of kids. Not enough to merit the attention that it gets on this board.[/quote]

The overall number is statistically insignificant, but when put in the context of the individual school, it is not so insignificant It is when the cheating affects a highly sought after school where there is a limited number of spaces that it does become VERY significant. Plus, even in the cases of non-high demand schools, it is thousands of dollars being spent on a child who is not part of our tax base here.

Why is this so hard for people to understand?[/quote]

I agree.

And it's not always fraud, but someones principal's "discretion." We run some numbers at our high-demand school recently, and found that over 20% of the kids in some grades a) had joined the school while living in boundary but b) no longer did. They lived elsewhere in DC, with a few in MD. This was enabled by the principal (who's now gone), who of course loved to complain over overcrowding...[/quote]

Clarification - in many cases, the student in question didn't live in boundary when joining, it was an older sibling who had at some point done so.[/quote]

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