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Your starting premise is wrong. The reporter standing outside the school is not looking for AA kids. [b]He or she is looking at the license plates. [/b]So your child would draw zero unwanted attention if your car has DC plates or if you walked to school. If by any chance your child was dropped off multiple days in a car with MD tags, it sounds like they might have followed it. If it dropped your child at a DC address, boom, nothing to see here. If the driver and the kid gets out at a house in MD, then they start running the plate and chasing down the tax information. Then they might call you and say, hey, we see your child goes to XYZ charter but we can't find any record of you living in DC for the past 19 years, do you have an explanation for that? 
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No.  Starting premise is that the "reporters" staked out schools where the majority of kids are black. They stated in story that their primary concern was schools where the majority of kids are black.  They posited that the people "scamming our schools" are black people living in Maryland and the "proof" they published consists of pictures of black adults and children, though who knows where the photos were actually taken because this "news" organization follows no journalism standards.

I have a degree in journalism.  I have a $260k HHI.  I've lived in DC in DC since 1988.  I have DC plates on my car and drive my kid to a public school in DC.  I don't support residency cheating.  But I AM FUCKING OUTRAGED that someone would stake themselves outside a school, photograph children, publish photos online, follow people home and publish their personal information in the guise of "news."

Like every other working parent, we cobble together a number of resources to ensure our kid is cared for while we're working the jobs that feed and clothe him.  None of that is is anyone's business, but it may include an aunt or cousin who will pick up said child and take him to their house in Maryland if I've got work that keeps me from pick up.  We have done all that's required to prove that he's our child and he lives with us at a DC residence.

The fact that some people cheat this system does not in any way make vigilante stalking and "investigation" okay with me.  My own TOTALLY FUCKING LEGAL use of MD-residing relatives for childcare is an example of how positively wrong this reporting can be.  And being wrong in even one instance of public shaming is far more egregious to me than any residency shaming.

That's the goddamned starting premise.[/quote]

Basically, Caller will go down the way Gawker is going bankrupt after Thiel funded a lawsuit against them and their shady practices. - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/business/dealbook/peter-thiel-tech-billionaire-reveals-secret-war-with-gawker.html[/quote]

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