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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I also hate it when someone sells their house in my neighborhood and moves to a more ritzy one.  Or when the same kind of people apply for a new job, and are hired, in order to get away from our horrible, no-account boss.  There oughtta be a law against it, imo.[/quote]

Your metaphor works only if your neighbor sells their house every year for 2-5 years or have long work histories of 1 year jobs.

I don't mind people trading up to go to a better school. A dear friend of mine is leaving our school next year because her child was offered a spot at their dream school. She feels very conflicted about it because her child has had a great year, but she would also be crazy not to take the spot. The churn that people are talking about is people who send their kids to different schools for several years running.[/quote]

So what we need is a nanny state to prevent parents from making bad decisions.  Maybe DCPS should hire judges to evaluate parents choices, along with their SES and educational background as relevant factors, and veto them if the Judge thinks the parents intent will result in harming the child.  Sounds like democracy to me.[/quote]

This is stupid.  You can lament bad decisions parents make (about a lot of things) without any thought of creating some government structure to vet those decisions.  You sounds like you are gunning for a fight with some straw man you've invented in your head.[/quote]

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