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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought the threshold was legality, not whether something is "normalized" or "excused"?[/quote]

Please point out where it says "boundary fraud" in the DC code. There's a whole chapter on Residency Requirement and Nonresident Tuition and residency fraud is specifically discussed in § 38–312.03. Surely if there's a whole chapter on residency requirements, and boundary fraud is also illegal, that phrase must come up somewhere?

In the section where it talks about penalties for false information, there's this part: "establishing by information and other evidence that a student or the student’s parent or primary caregiver is not in fact a District of Columbia resident or an other primary caregiver." Maybe there's another part about false information penalties for if the student is a resident but lives somewhere in a different boundary and I just missed it. You can check and see for yourself.  Or just find one single case where someone has been fined or imprisoned on the basis of this law since 2012, when it was last rewritten. That's typically what happens when something is illegal, right?[/quote]

Best post of this long thread.  Thanks, PP.

Boundary fraud is clearly very unpopular with the morally supercilious crowd on this thread, but illegal?  This lawyer doesn't see that either.  From what I gather, respecting school boundaries in DC is a practice, a policy and a hope of ed leaders and stakeholders, vs. a statutory requirement.  Why not?  Because DC public schools aren't popular or good enough across the board for DC politicians to make boundary fraud illegal.  They'd have to concede that there are good and bad schools in the DC public system if they were to start fining or imprisoning parents for breaking the law to avoid certain schools.  They aren't prepared to do that, for political reasons.[/quote]

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