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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only article I can find indicates that Stokes had 5-6 cases under investigation and one confirmation that there was a nonresident student.  Maybe there is more recent information you can point me to?  Either way it was not meant to be flippant, but I do view people that are in-boundary to be "entitled" to a spot.  I do distinguish that from DC residents that have options and choose not to pursue them because they want something they perceive to be better.  While I understand the motivation, I don't think you are entitled to a school you are not zoned for.  I am assuming for the charter situations that there is more going on than people winning the lottery under a fake address, and that should be looked into.  But at the administrative level, not by random people with a camera phone.  [b]And lets be real here, this fury over residency fraud isn't because of the low SES kids being misplaced.  [/b][/quote]

see this article for some numbers. based on the article the cheaters found (not just investigated) at Stokes were 5. of the 16 investigations concluded by the Charter Board, 12 kids were found to be residency cheaters. so three quarters of the concluded investigations found residency fraud.

I think you are really wrong when you don't understand that cheaters take away from DC kids the education they are entitled to. YY gives kids in DC the opportunity for Chinese full immersion. if I apply and end up on the waitlist and the kids admitted are DC residents, too bad, we all play by the rules, they won the lottery and I did not. but if one of the kids admitted is a cheater living in VA and I am a DC resident and the first child on the wailits, than the cheater is taking away from me an education I am entitled to and the cheater is not. charters with a waitlist are usually good schools and in some cases offer unique opportunities (I am thinking of all language immersion). so cheaters do take away education opportunities to DC residents, opportunities the DC residents are entitled because 1) they are DC residents and 2) they would have won a lottery spot if the cheater was not there.

and you are wrong on the last point too, I am very real here and my kids are happy in their high performing IB school (we are fortunate enough to be able to move IB for a great school) and are not displaced by anybody, but I am still definitely against cheaters and think it is a problem DCPS and the Charter Board should take seriously. in the first place, I think every single time a cheater is found, the parents or guardians shuld be billed for the tuition and should force to pay it, even in installment. now when a cheater is found, the child is simply kicked out of school, but the parents are not forced to pay. so cheaters know that even if they are found, there are no consequences other than having to go back to their state. if DCPS and the Charter Board started really billing people for back tuition and take people to court to get the money, that would make a difference.[/quote]

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