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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And, even if the total number of students initially identified were not all cheaters, their paperwork was dodgy enough to raise concerns, which overall indicates the registrar at Ellington is not doing due diligence. Just because those families proved residence, doesn’t mean the paperwork was proper up front. [/quote]

This is what jumped out at me.  Even if all the kids ultimately proved their residency, the fact that so many were enrolled with suspect paperwork is a problem.  I can understand that a few students are going to have unusual living arrangements, but most people should be able to supply the requisite number of approved documents.  The school needs to be vetting this stuff better.  [/quote]

We do not know what the paperwork problems were.  If the registrar was sloppy, that does not mean that the paperwork was "dodgy" in a blame the parents way.  I have filed residency paperwork every year for the past 9 years.  This past year I forgot to sign in one spot and months later our school registrar caught it and reached out to me and I then signed correctly.  She is a good registrar and I made an inadvertent mistake and she failed to catch it.

It is a really big deal that OSSE made such huge errors.  It undermines the ability to rely on its work and public claims.  Yes, cheating is bad, but so is bungled enforcement.  [/quote]

If you look at any of the OSSE documents they outline what type of records they encountered at Ellington.  Since they can only go on what the school provides them they did the right thing, took the poor verification conducted by the school and used that as they law required them to do.

They did their job.  Ellington, not so much.[/quote]

Your premise is wrong. They did not just take what the school gave them. They started with what the school gave them, then went deeper into other means -- property records, social media, pay stubs and things beyond what parents provided to come up with the determination of non-residency. In other words, in most cases the paperwork given to schools met the criteria because families tend to turn in those things they know will pass muster. Which begs the question of why OSSE says you can prove residency with one or two things, but then reserves the right to look at Thing 4 & 5 that you did not turn in. There simply needs to be a new process. It should be tax-based, and it should be done and approved by OSSE prior to school entry, not months after you've started class.
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