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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year wasn't Wilson disqualified from some football game due to residency fraud?

Everyone knows where the football players at Friendship Charter really live.

If you were to ask teachers at Duke Ellington if they knew of children from Maryland at school they would say yes.

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Ellington is a bit of a special case because it specifically admits "tuition-paying" students. While there may also be residency cheaters at Ellington there are a significant number who openly register from outside the District, there are more kids registered from Maryland at Ellington than from any ward in DC other than Ward 5.

I put "tuition-paying" in quotes though because DCPS has historically had quite a bit of trouble actually collecting tuition from students. At the last audit the number of kids in the entire DCPS system who actually paid their tuition was lower than the number of "tuition-paying" kids at Ellington. Residency fraud gets replaced by tuition fraud I guess.[/quote]

If "Ward 9" (aka Maryland) makes up the largest number of kids openly registered at DE after Ward 5, why is it that DE takes MD kids when there are DC kids who apply and can't get in?  [/quote]

Sometimes the tuition paying kids from Maryland play instruments that they need for the orchestra or they are just really talented in one of the arts.  If they don't have enough oboe players etc. trying out then they get MD tuition paying kids.  I know a family that paid 10th through 12th grade tuition for such a case.  I know they definitely paid.  [/quote]

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