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Not hard to show where you live. Come to my house. I'll show you my messy house, all my clothes, paperwork, ask the neighbors if I live here and so on.
Never seen people put up such a fuss and fight if they are not cheating.[/quote]

This is how I feel.  It's not hard to prove your residency.  So report if you know of someone, and they can put to rest any confusion or questions.  It shouldn't be a big deal to prove.  
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Actually, it is hard to prove residency.  When I met my husband, he owned the house we lived in and had all the utilities in his name.  Though we filed joint taxes as a married couple[b] and my drivers license and registration carried my name and address, it was insufficient for registering my child.[/b] Very insufficient. We're three years in to public schooling in DC and each year, the schools we've attended have been hard core about seeing the person whose claiming guardianship and residency IN PERSON when they register a child.

If it's fair to resort to stereotypes - and it seems the "articles" and thousands of DCUM posts on the subject make stereotypes very fair - then I have to believe that the people with means to skirt this system are [i]more likely[/i] well-off white people taking advantage of highly-regarded charter schools and DCPS west of the park.  Yet these "reporters" couldn't be bothered with JKLM or Creative Minds, where there are certainly affluent white people "scamming our schools." Not to mention principals and parent teacher organizations looking the other way. These people are just not being followed home or having their government documentation researched and posted online.

Show of hands/posts, how many here are irked by their wait list number for Eagle Academy or Ludlow-Taylor?

I mean, if you don't see this sham excuse for journalism as a bigger problem in the interest of our kids, then I'm just frankly worried for our kids.[b] I have resided and paid taxes in the District of Columbia for close to 30 years[/b].  But thinking about some nutcase vigilante targeting my kid for "investigation" because he's a brown kid getting out of the car of my MD-residing SIL who sometimes helps with childcare makes my blood boil.

And you go, Oh! If you're following the law you have nothing to worry about. Just answer the questions imposed on you and you're good to go! But the blatant racial bias expressed here and in the articles means I have a hell of a lot to worry about.  Some fucking kook stalking kids outside of their school, taking photographs and posting them online?  How is it that THAT fact doesn't disturb people?
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OMG.  Stop with the racial stuff.  Over 80% of DCPS students are "brown kids."  Around 80% of chart schools students are "brown kids."  Of course there will be brown kids caught up in this because they are the vast majority of students who are in public and charter schools in DC.  It isn't targeting them specifically, it is targeting cheaters in a system where the vast majority of kids ARE brown.

Plus you are factually wrong in your assessment that you have a hard time registering your child.  A car registration AND driver's license are proof -- you said you had both.  If you want to go the easy route a pay stub is the only piece you need -- you said you had that too.  Stop making excuses for the cheaters.  SIL randomly picking up your kid isn't what this is even about and you know it.  Some fucking kook stalking people engaged in illegal activity in plain public sight is exactly what I want to happen.  Make it uncomfortable for them.  Call them out on it.  [/quote]

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