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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet another reason to aim for the better W's, people with money have less reasons to pretend to get over on the system. Of course the system is set up to help them but why not take the help if you qualify?[/quote]

But don't people try to get COSAs or do 'shared housing' for those better ESs?  I would think people want to get their kids into those schools.  We're in the RM cluster and there are quite a few 'shared housing' arrangements at our ES.  It's a good school but not like Somersat, lol.

There are quite a few people who do this to get their kids into all types of schools, how are the W schools immune to this issue?[/quote]

Yes but most of the people who would try stuff like this aren't the type who have friends that could afford to live in the some of the better W zones. And even if they did get in they would stick out like a sore thumb, an ESOL kid from Langley park would blend in to a next door Takoma Park school but that same kid at Bannockburn might be the only poor Latino immigrant in the entire school making harder to fake. [b]The biggest problem the W schools have is when the parents live in the Ws and their kids use their address. [/b]

You are at much higher risk when like as the OP states,you live near a marginal area and people find ways in. Look at Westbrook in Bethesda, it is surrounded by Somerset, Woodacres, Janney, none of those kid's parents would bother to cheat to get into a school that wouldn't have their local friends that at best is just as good and some hapless parent else where doesn't even know about it because these have never really been in that part of the city.

Where I grew up and attended Piney Branch Elementary, I went to birthday parties in PG and DC while they claimed an Aunt or what not on Maple Ave in a small apt. That is the problem with the RM cluster is it really is the edge with low income areas all around it.  Where as there are areas closer in and in the west that are surrounded by affluence for miles in every direction, they are simply sheltered from many of these types of problems save for the occasional maid's kid using an employers address.   [/quote]

THIS IS STILL FRAUD.  It's not better because it's a grandparent's house instead of a tia's house.  [/quote]

Again, this happens all the time, even in the non-W clusters.  People use a grandparent's address to gain access to a different ES.

But, interesting take on ESs that are surrounded by wealthier areas, versus more middle-class areas that are surrounded by mixed income areas.  [/quote]

as a side note the edge areas leave they selves vulnerable to this by the down right bigoted zones that are often drawn for them. They intentional clump the middle class areas in one school and right next door the clump all the low & mixed income housing to a different one causing a disparity where one side gets shafted and look for ways around it. If they just drew boundaries that were diverse, people would be dis-incentivized from cheating.

I personally couldn't imagine putting a child through having to lie about where they live for their entire school life. That is the real crime. [/quote]

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