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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you strongly suspect residency cheating and it rankles you, go on, call the darn fraud hotline, or complain to your principal.

Playing CSI, coming here to slam fellow parents for cheating, and whispering about them in your school community isn't cool. You'd be surprised how many "people who live in MD" pay income tax in DC, and how many parents who "never lived" at IB house actually lived there.[/quote]

Caring that people cheat and undermine the system while others pay up to play by the rules "isn't cool"?!  You sound like you're in high school.

All of you completely unbothered by boundary cheating must not be at the overcrowded schoold that others of us make financial sacrifices to access.  If it's unimportant to your school, so be it, but for some schools, it matters.

And those defending OP and her proposed 2nd home, remember that's just aiming to rent a studio, ie, the cheapest thing she can get.  She would not be renting a home comparable to what she has otherwise chosen for her family, just an address.[/quote]

The point was made that you can care all you want, take umbrage if you will, be bothered continually.  You can also call the tipline anytime you like, and/or complain to your school's admins about suspected cheaters.

[b]What you shouldn't be doing is judging, hounding, hassling and trying to besmirch the reputations of parents who, as far as DCPS is concerned, aren't in their sights for whatever reasons. [/b]  [/quote]

Irrespective of what ideally ought or ought not happen, it happens.  People talk.  If these families believe their practices are legal and acceptable, then it shouldn't matter.

I do think it hurts the school community when people do this.  These families sometimes live far away and don't always show up to school events.  Their kids are more likely to stay home on bad weather days, when those who actually live in the neighborhood all show up.  Play dates are declined.  I've seen all of this happen with families who are supposedly IB, but not really.
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And some of us OOB trash serve as president of the PTO. [/quote]

It would take a special kind of narcissism to engage in fraud to attend a school, and then get yourself elected PTO president.  [/quote]

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