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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS is a DC agency - can't they check against the other databases instead of relying solely on what could be fraudulent pay stubs and other documentation?  They should have cross-agency access to TANF, SNAP, the DC Office of Tax, etc.  It seems like the verification information is already at their fingertips and that they could just work with the other agencies to get that information quite easily.

This thread has blown this into a race issue and it's not.  It's a DCPS prioritizing MD (or VA) cheaters over DC taxpayers issue.  Especially in the case of charter schools, DCPS is literally [b]allowing MD students to take spaces away from DC students[/b].  What makes the MD cheaters more entitled than the DC kids who also may face socioeconomic challenges?  Why should any DC taxpayer have to pay another 1-2 full years of daycare because they can't get into a PK-3 or PK-4 spot that's given to a non-taxpaying family who is legally ineligible to take that spot?  This is not a moral issue, it is a legal and financial issue.  If I already pay tons of taxes for the schools and then I have to pay $20k+ for daycare because I can't get into the schools, damn that will make me mad.  And some people can't afford great daycare - those kids risk being in another year of a bad situation because they can't get into their school.  And many needy DC kids are being robbed of an opportunity to attend a charter school that's better than their neighborhood school because cheaters have taken their spots.  I just can't understand the people who are defending this - it's stealing money from our pockets and from the programs that support DC students, including those with special needs and other challenges.

People are unhappy with the tactics used, but this has been going on forever with NO CONSEQUENCES and no concern on behalf of DCPS.  So another approach was needed.  Relying on officials to handle this wasn't going to change any of the results, so people have taken another tack.  Focusing on the tactic is a distraction from the fact that the ultimate problem is the endemic practice of [b]stealing[/b] money and [b]educational opportunities [/b]from DC kids (and parents) and giving to MD kids (and parents).  [/quote]

I want you to know don't disagree with you, except about one thing: the way this was done by the daily caller reporters was wrong, sets all sorts of questionable precedents and pretty much goes against every ethic I can think of. Which is kind of funny, considering the Christian thing... but I digress.

It is okay to demand more accountability. It is not okay to witch hunt children. It is not okay to interrogate people in front of their children, or go through their trash, looking for "proof." Just for fun, I wonder of the daily caller could find some African American stringers and send them on an assignment to follow some folks through McLean borders. [/quote]

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