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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]have to wonder who much the waitlists for these schools would shrink if the dc government made any effort to prevent its own employees from cheating the system. [/quote]

Doubt it.  The best neighborhood schools are overenrolled, and if an IB student drops out, there isn't an empty seat.  It just becomes less overcrowded.[/quote]

earlier in the discussion there was a specific example of a student at School Without Walls.  I know of a student at McKinley Tech.    Both of these schools have waitlists.

Let's pretend that at every Tier 1 school there is 1 child per grade that is residency fraud. This adds up and makes a difference at the macro level.[/quote]

Does it?  Let's say my kid is going into K.  There are maybe 100 schools in DCPS/PCS offering K, of any tier.  If each has one residency cheater in K, that's going to be less than 100 spots because overcrowded schools might not consider it an empty seat.  So estimate 80.  Some schools are under-enrolled and a residency cheater is not taking a spot that someone else wants.  So more like 50.  Then take out the schools I would not enroll in or would not drive to and it's more like 20 spots.  So, I would not expect to feel an impact.  I'm all for ending the culture of cheating among middle class families, but not because I think it will make my kid get in somewhere.  For a few people it will make that critical offer come through, but most people aren't high enough on a waitlist for it to matter.
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