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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]once again, "the legacy of racism" justifies the problem, the illegality, or the rule-breaking.  Rather than being appalled at the rationalization, I think spending time to contemplate that perspective explains a lot.[/quote]

It is just outrageous that they feel it’s a right because they were born here. That isn’t how life works for anybody! They likely moved out to the suburbs because they wanted a bigger house for less.[/quote]

That entitlement is a problem and needs to be met head on. This sense of a "right" coupled with the apparent fact that a large proportion are DC government employees shows clearly why OSSE and even the Council are not rushing to hire a full team of fraud investigators. [/quote]

A large percentage of the DC government workforce lives not in DC but in PG.  DC schools provide free pre-K and favorable before and after school care, closer to mom or dad's workplace.  Add to that the almost Communist Party-era sense of entitlement for government functionaries, and is it any wonder that such parents have no problem working the system (i.e., cheating the system) for a cheaper/better/more convenient school "option"?[/quote]

Where has it been shown that a large proportion of residency cheaters are DC government employees? There's been no concrete data about this.

The non-DC families I know who are enrolled in DC schools aren't government employees and don't have jobs in DC at all.
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The WaPo article that started this thread noted this from the documented fraud cases. DC employees, including Kaya Henderson’s assistant.[/quote]

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