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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On a practical level, DCPS can't simply ignore the reality that families owning multiple residential properties can and sometimes do select one as an enrollment address in-boundary even if they don't sleep there, or don't sleep there most the time. Ed leaders of course must decide where to put scarce taxpayer resources in the ed domain. They turn a blind eye to boundary cheating on the part of owners of multiple residences because cracking down on them would be expensive and v. difficult.  What are arguing here? That DCPS should copy Fairfax and tony suburbs of other big cities around the country by hiring detective companies to pursue boundary cheaters?  You want DCPS resources to be committed to expensive and complicated boundary fraud crackdowns? You also want poor families who shuffle kids between relatives across boundaries on a regular basis to be compelled to ensure that the kids sleep at one residence X number of days in the year to qualify to be enrolled from that residence? I've seen rules on public school enrollment written that way, and enforced, in upscale jurisdictions in other Metro areas. In a nutshell, from a legal standpoint, DCPS can't crack down on well-off boundary cheaters without going at the poors, too. What they do is require multiple tax returns at one address to clear boundary cheaters who are investigated for residency fraud. That's probably the best they can do under the circumstances without going the pricey hire-detective-agencies route, a political hot potato because of the complicated residency profiles of many of the poors. It seems like a sustainable compromise under the circumstances.[/quote]

No one is advocating for hiring detective agencies or spending more money on enforcement.

We are saying that people who do this are boundary cheats. It is not within the rules of the system. People who do this are lying on forms and to school officials. Whether OSSE pursues it is another matter. It's cheating.[/quote]

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