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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading comprehension. Nobody came here "playing CSI." OP posted about her fraudulent/unethical scheme. [/quote]

Oh, yeah. That's quite a fraudulent/unethical scheme: paying income tax to DC, and her fair share of property tax for not one but two homes in different parts of town. A regular Al Capone this one. The single factor, in your mind, which determines whether she is an upstanding citizen or some sort of subhuman scum, is which of her two homes her child spends the night in. I can imagine you spying through her bedroom window every night and relaying your findings to exhausted fraud tipline workers trying to focus their limited enforcement resources on out-of-state residency fraud that drains our public school budget without contributing to our tax base.[/quote]

+100. I'd like to see DCPS hit back much harder at the financial fraud crowd, and the leave the others alone.

When schools get crowded, plan ahead to add classroom trailers, build more school additions and even open more schools (rather than handing solid old school buildings off to condo developers). Close unpopular schools and auction the buildings off, or rent them out, to fund expansions of wildly popular schools. Provide parents with more incentives to use schools that aren't wildly popular, like attractive programming (including GT programming) and free or dirt cheap after care.

Truth is, DCPS owns a good deal of dramatically under-utilized real estate.[/quote]

There is a point where a school is too big, there is a negative impact on the education of the kids.  The larger elementary schools in NW (Murch, Janney, and Lafayette) and Deal are at or close to that point.

DCPS is a neighborhood school system with the ability to apply OOB and continuing that was fought out in 2013.  There are other options that were considered but not on the table was the “renting an apt you don’t live in to commit fraud” plan.

It is fraud, making up a story about paying taxes is just justifying a wrongful action by talking about a factor that is not part of the rules.  Don’t fool yourself that it doesn’t matter and everyone is doing it.  They are not.  If you are doing it you are lying on government documents.

And that crap where you put down parents that followed the rules as scared to live among the “other” that you don’t want your kids to go to school with, wow, just WOW.[/quote]

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