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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

With the feeder path guarantee, this does add up. Because no one in power actually wants to fix this, for all we know the overcrowding in the Wilson feeder schools - and Brent and Maury - could be eliminated if we eliminated the fraud.

Can we please do that before we talk any more about either ending OOB rights for children who live in the city legitimately or building some new school in ward 3?[/quote]

I'm against this as much as anyone. However are you really suggesting like 10%+ of the students in the Wilson feeders, Brent, and Maury are from MD? The overcrowding at a handfull of schools and the out of city people cheating the system are largely two separate issues.  [/quote]

Yes, I think it's 5-10%. [/quote]

That is one or two kids per class. That does not change much if anything. [/quote]

If you multiple those kids (say, 30 kids at a school) by the amount they should be paying in tuition for all of the years they attend, it quickly looks massive. [/quote]

I mean, just consider the tax fraud alone. DC is spending close to $20K/student per year. If that's 30 kids per school that are cheating, that's $600K per school. There's 111 schools in DCPS, so that's over $66m per year in DC funding on students who don't live in DC.

That's f#cking insane. This is not a "small" problem.[/quote]

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