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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of working class families have incredibly complicated and ever changing housing arrangements. Mom lives one place, dad lives somewhere else, mom’s ex who is the dad of some of the kids lives somewhere else and his mom serves as a 4th grandma to all of the kids, a best friend from childhood is also a cousin who the kids stay with in the summer, etc etc. I’m not passing judgment; these can be incredibly warm and happy families. But the idea of “kid grows up in one house with one mom and one dad and that’s it” is just not the reality. So it isn’t residency fraud, families just are trying to figure out the best educational and logistical options given all the places to stay and fluctuating family dynamics. [/quote]

The problem with that line of thought is that most of the publicized cases of DCPS residency fraud -- the ones the DC attorney general has prosecuted -- do not involve the situations you describe but rather non-resident city employees with ostensibly stable households who cheat the system simply because it aligns with their commutes. Or high-ranking city officials who use their pull to get their kids into desired DCPS schools and think they can get away with it.[/quote]

Because no one is prosecuting it if the kid kind of lives with Grandma in DC! [/quote]

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