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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who cares? Certainly not DCPS leaders, the city council or Bowser.  As long as that remains the case, I fail to see the point of this shame game and all the hand wringing. [/quote]

Because it's dishonest and unfair to other students.  [/quote]

My kid is an in-bounds student at Jackson Reed and I don't care about boundary fraud there. If the "victims" don't care, why do you?[/quote]

Your kid is at JR. Personally I'd still be bothered by the way boundary fraud leads to overcrowding, but your kid is still at the best IB DCPS high school in the city, so I'm not surprised that you don't really care.

Meanwhile, there are thousands of families in the city who play by the rules every year, reporting their address accurately and just hoping they can get a spot at a decent high school, and making do with what is possible within the bound of the law and fairness. And yes, those are the people far more likely to be upset at someone who cheats to gain access to something that many people also want but, because they are actually following the rules, don't get.

There are also people who suck it up and move IB for JR, and I seriously doubt they are enthusiastic to hear that other families accomplish the [b]same thing by simply lying on their paperwork[/b].[/quote]

As far as I can tell "simply lying on their paperwork" is an urban myth where access to J-R is concerned. Yes, there're a tiny number of parents who live EotP who rent places for J-R, or own places in-boundary where they don't live. In a nutshell, if you don't have the paperwork to survive a DCPS residency investigation and possibly a home visit, you don't just swan into J-R without winning a lottery spot and stay there.

If I were to rank boundary fraud on a list of my concerns about J-R as a parent of two students there, boundary fraud would be lower than problem #25. [/quote]

Again, of course you feel this way, your kids are at J-R. So what do you care. It's people who are struggling to get their kid into a solid HS by following the rules who are most bothered by cheaters.

Also, you are basically saying that in order to commit boundary fraud, people have to construct elaborate fictions where they fake living in a home they don't live in, in order to survive a residency investigation and home visit. That's actually worse! Putting grandmas address down on your paperwork and hoping no one checks it is still wrong, but everyone has moments of weakness. Going to the trouble of renting a home on the other side of town, repeatedly lying directly to officials about where you live, coaching your child into lying? That's much, much worse. If you are willing to go to that trouble, just move IB for the school. It's less hassle and has the benefit of not being against the rules.[/quote]

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