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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.  [b]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. [/b] 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]

The quality of schools has changed too fast in our Cap Hill neighborhood for this argument to hold here.  Your perspective is very WotP.

Parents and parents-to-be who bought in-boundary for the Capitol Hill Cluster just three or four years ago are dismayed to see how far Watkins and Stuart Hobson have slipped since then, losing three to five percentage points worth of both IB and white students every year, each.  Meanwhile, Maury and Brent have raced ahead.

[b]I doubt that apartment-renting-cheating Cluster parents see themselves as lying and cheating, because they're paying plenty in taxes to the District without getting the relatively high quality program they bought in-boundary for.   Moving on the Hill isn't a good option, now that real estate has become red hot.  [/b]
I'd like to see those in objection lobby like you DCPS and politicians to raise the bar on proving residency for school enrollment purposes.  Doing so would call attention to more pressing issues, like the way charters and, yes, address cheating are siphoning off in-boundary families, for good reason.  [/quote]

Wow PP, you just do. Not.  Get it!  No one in DC has any guarantees about what school their child can go to unless they are inbound for a particular school's boundary for K-12 when they want their child to go.  There are no guarantees that the boundaries will be what they were when you bought... there are no guarantees that you'll get in (even if you're IB) for PS-PK... no guarantees.  And DC is an expensive city and gets more expensive by the year.

Just because housing costs rise and it becomes harder for families to live in DC at all, much less afford the best school zones, THAT DOESN'T JUSTIFY ANYONE CHEATING THE SYSTEM.  You don't get to cheerlead laws and rules UNTIL they don't work for you, and then you get to ignore them.  That is some serious entitlement and hypocrisy.

I'm certainly a realist, and I understand that rich people and powerful people buck the rules all the time, or bend the rules to work for them, or just make new rules.  But there has to be a structure and cheating/breaking the rules can NEVER just be dismissed because someone thinks it's ok "in this case".

Cheating is cheating.  It's always cheating.  And discussions here about possible "motives" of people advocating even more cracking down on boundary cheats is irrelevant.  Cheating is still cheating, there are rules that apply to admissions, and knowingly giving an address which is not where your kids live most of the time is cheating and - when discovered - absolutely legitimate grounds for kicking you out of the school.

Put the address you actually live at on your school applications, or don't be surprised if you get busted.  It really is THAT simple.[/quote]

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