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[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.

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.   [/quote]

DUDE!  THEY are the ones who chose to engage in fraud and cheating for their own, individual benefit.  THEY are besmirching their own reputations by lying.  I'm not spending any energy going after them; but it's ridiculous to do something unethical and then whine when you get told you're being unethical. [/quote]

DUDE! What if THEY haven't lied, have actually obeyed the rules, and perhaps have even been investigated and cleared?

I hear parents at our school chattering unkindly about a number of families supposedly engaging in blatant residency fraud. We know that their targets include parents who are legally separated, a family that moved into a small apartment and rented out their house after one parent lost their job, and kids of a single dad with mental health issues whose grandparents have temporary custody.  The snide remarks are often punctuated by a disclaimer along the lines of, but I won't go to the trouble of turning them in.

How about turning parents in and keeping quiet.  Or not turning them in and keeping quiet.[/quote]

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