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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why bother verifying the facts? Let the charter board do it. This is like the threads on residency cheaters where they want everyone to police offenders themselves and not bothering to let the people who are supposed to handle it do their jobs. Why are people advocating for vigilanteism when it's totally not necessary? This can't be a hard one. Tell the board ______ has been named to the board as a founder. He/she has two pre-kers starting in the fall due to founders preference. Ask them if _____ is actually a founder and if they say no, ask for an investigation. They'll take it from there. [/quote]

True, she could call and talk to the admin person who answers the phone.  She could tell them that she heard some gossip at school or read a rumor on DCUM, it concerns the possibility that someone has been added as a founder at a school.  And, that means the person's children got founder's preference, and that's bugging her.  That would be unfair, so could someone please go check on that right now?  This is a HOT TIP, no doubt more important than anything the person is actually working on at the moment.  Could she please call back with the results?  Asap?

Or, she could decide she doesn't want to risk looking like a complete idiot.  She also doesn't want to risk having her request punted to the bottom of the "to do" list because it sounds like rumor-mongering among stressed and/or bitter parents who are sweating out the waitlist.  Instead, she says she is very interested in XYZ school and is considering it for her children.  She would like to know more about the school via details in the charter application, since it is public information, after all.  Would the person answering the phone be able to read through the document with her?  For example, the sections on education plan, business plan, and curriculum?  Also, the expertise which the founders brought to the project?  On second thought, that would be tedious, and she can run through it all herself, when is a convenient time to come in and do that?

If it turns out to be true, then she has proof and can request that action be taken.  If it is not true, then she has debunked some gossip (and avoided looking like an idiot).
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What a loaded crock you've written. You've got a lot of time on your hands! Back to reality for the rest of us. If you have reason to believe that someone is conducting themselves with respect to charter rules, it is totally appropriate to report the matter to the PCSB. Clearly, the "rumor" got out there and there's buzz about with someone coming forward asking for discretion on here. If this is that widely known whomever has specific info. should report it to the charter board. Simple. All of this "look like an idiot" load of bull is just fodder to keep people from taking progressive action properly. The focusing on "not looking like an idiot" is so juvenile and, worst yet, cheating deserving kids out their rightful spot. Shame on the "new founders" (another crock) and on those who abet them.[/quote]

By all means, let's treat every rumor, piece of gossip, and allegation as though it were gospel.  No-one else is busy after all, only you.  By golly, we should all move your priorities to the top of our lists, it's not as though we have anything else to do.[/quote]

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