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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you're going to coach your kids to lie?[/quote]

This is the biggest problem I would have with it. You're basically teaching them that since you can afford to do it, you're somehow worthy of getting into those schools, or like lying is okay if you have enough money. [/quote]

+100.

On a similar moral level as flying privately at taxpayer's expense just because you can.[/quote]

No.  A more accurate analogy would be flying one private jet instead of another.  Both on the taxpayer's dime.  Since OP already pays taxes to dc she's not cheating anyone of tax dollars. [/quote]

The point is not cheating someone of tax dollars, but of gaming the system to the detriment of others just because you can. Even if the rules now are crazy enough to allow this, it is clearly not meant to be used in this calculating way. It's like finding a lawful but awful tax loophole.[/quote]

I don't see how this is any different than anyone buying in a good school district.  Technically wealthy people buying in good school districts are gaming the system, right?  It's not like OP is lying about the condo.  She is actually going to own one and this apparently legally allows her child to attend the in hounds school.  [/quote]

It speaks volumes that you don't see the difference.[/quote]

DP here: not really. The hypothetical parent is smartly playing in the system we have, not the one you fantasize about. And, frankly, DCPS doesn't seem to care about parents "gaming" the boundary so long as you live in the District.

I know Oyster Adams didn't allow families to remain in the school if they moved outside the catchment boundary. Were they overruled by the new regulations?[/quote]

The neighborhood school system, you know, where neighborhood kids go to school together, is not a fantasy.[/quote]

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