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Not hard to show where you live. Come to my house. I'll show you my messy house, all my clothes, paperwork, ask the neighbors if I live here and so on.
Never seen people put up such a fuss and fight if they are not cheating.[/quote]

This is how I feel.  It's not hard to prove your residency.  So report if you know of someone, and they can put to rest any confusion or questions.  It shouldn't be a big deal to prove.  
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Actually, it is hard to prove residency.  When I met my husband, he owned the house we lived in and had all the utilities in his name.  Though we filed joint taxes as a married couple and my drivers license and registration carried my name and address, it was insufficient for registering my child. Very insufficient. We're three years in to public schooling in DC and each year, the schools we've attended have been hard core about seeing the person whose claiming guardianship and residency IN PERSON when they register a child.

If it's fair to resort to stereotypes - and it seems the "articles" and thousands of DCUM posts on the subject make stereotypes very fair - then I have to believe that the people with means to skirt this system are [i]more likely[/i] well-off white people taking advantage of highly-regarded charter schools and DCPS west of the park.  Yet these "reporters" couldn't be bothered with JKLM or Creative Minds, where there are certainly affluent white people "scamming our schools." Not to mention principals and parent teacher organizations looking the other way. These people are just not being followed home or having their government documentation researched and posted online.

Show of hands/posts, how many here are irked by their wait list number for Eagle Academy or Ludlow-Taylor?

I mean, if you don't see this sham excuse for journalism as a bigger problem in the interest of our kids, then I'm just frankly worried for our kids. I have resided and paid taxes in the District of Columbia for close to 30 years.  But thinking about some nutcase vigilante targeting my kid for "investigation" because he's a brown kid getting out of the car of my MD-residing SIL who sometimes helps with childcare makes my blood boil.

And you go, Oh! If you're following the law you have nothing to worry about. Just answer the questions imposed on you and you're good to go! But the blatant racial bias expressed here and in the articles means I have a hell of a lot to worry about.  Some fucking kook stalking kids outside of their school, taking photographs and posting them online?  How is it that THAT fact doesn't disturb people?
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I play the cards dealt.  The racist vigilante stalking my kids outside their school dealt first.

Again - if there's anyone who can post pictures of these lowlifes that I can share with my kid's school, I'll be most grateful.  We're longtime DC residents and taxpayers, but I'll be damned if I will accept this kind of harassment.  It is far more egregious to me than people trying to do what's best for their kids - all the nonsense about "concerned and involved parents" is obviously a bucket of donkey shit.[/quote]

Are all dc residents this angry and against stopping fraud? [/quote]

I'm with this woman. I want to know who Watson and Taylor are. Not that hard to find out.

It has nothing to do with fraud. It has to do with the kind of people who stall children, all in the name of their "cause." Perfectly acceptable, one assumes, to have their own children stalked. After all, I'm sure their parents have done "something" wrong, and if not... why would they mind?[/quote]

These people are being investigated because they're criminals.  It really is that simple. How would you propose anyone catches these criminals if basic (legal) investigation methods such as following them home constitute "stalking"?  Everyone always cries racism when faced with facts.[/quote]

Here are the facts I'm facing:

If my AA kid is in a school/classroom that I've worked my ass off to get him into, he is likely to be subject to a "reporter" standing outside his school demanding his address, taking photographs and/or video footage of him outside of his school and posting it online with no legal justification.  WITH NO LEGAL PROOF of wrongdoing on the part of this kid or his parents.  It's then my obligation and hardship to PROVE that this publication of my kid's photo and the details of my residence, employment, and tax records should not be open for public discussion - after they have been published for open discussion.

If you accept that your society will allow unsubstantiated claims to serve as judgement on any person, than you're accepting that the same can and should be served against you - suffering all the repercussions, no matter how law abiding you are.

I find this abhorrent and baffled that I don't live in a society where others don't feel the same.[/quote]

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]

So yeah, you should be alarmed if your child is regularly being shuttled from school to a house in Maryland. People are pissed off at the blatant fraud that is commonplace at some schools and that has gotten the attention of this click-bait website. Perhaps you should express your frustration to your councilmember, who might be able to get some answers out of OSSE, because "all that's required" is not enough to keep people from cheating the system.[/quote]

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