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Agreed.  And the scope of the issue is also completely blown up.  This is "Cadillac Welfare Mom" redux (except with an Escalade!)  While cheating isn't good, there's no evidence that it is some kind of systematic fraud making any sort of meaningful impact on DCPS.  This just seems to be a perfect storm of white parents obsessed with being "shut out" from their PK3, and a "news" organization pushing an ideological agenda that is very happy to bash DC and black people in general.  [/quote]

Scope blown up?  Really?  You may not like the Daily Caller, but you are being disingenuous if you pretend this isn't a substantial problem. [/quote]

There's no evidence that this is a "substantial problem"!!  That's the whole point ... [/quote]

If you read other articles in Washington Post and elsewhere, consider the City Council hearing in 2012, read this and other forums (with the topic coming up again and again over time), and if you open your eyes, the problem is clear.

We're not in a court of law where evidence is needed for a conviction.  Rather, plenty of information and examples indicate that this is a substantial problem deserving proper investigation and legal evidence collection.

You can choose to require unassailable evidence before you acknowledge a problem, but that's just dumb.  Can I offer you a cigarette?

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there's been absolutely no credible evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, that this is some kind of severe issue within the scope of issues facing DC and DC schools. just anonymous DCUM posters and busy bodies counting MD license plates. on the other hand, we have plenty of reason to believe that the Daily Caller "investigation" is a hack job or worse to further their own anti-federal/anti-"liberal" agenda.

Of course there are some parents committing fraud out there. That does not demonstrate this is THE PROBLEM ZoMG!!! with DC schools. If you are super exercised about residency fraud, please take a moment to think why. [/quote]

If you take a close look at the statistics by our heroic right-wing crusaders, you would notice that they all have words like "about" and "nearly" and "almost" and "approximately" in front of them. That is because, although they claimed to be counting things like license plates they were either not counting very much, or they need plausible deniability because their numbers are actually pulled out of their asses.

I'm inclined to believe a Washington post article from 2014 that found excel charter school had issues with accountability. I am less inclined to believe someone who doesn't think women should use birth control, although she has no children herself.

I think an examination of rosniak's wife's workplace would show more graft and waste of taxpayer dollars than all the Maryland cheaters in the world. It appears to be a "foundation" for female healthcare executives. To... have female health care executives.[/quote]

Credible investigative journalism would present enough evidence to support an argument that substantiates perhaps some anecdotal evidence.  This reporter has gathered a small amound of anecdotal evidence and created an entire argument wrapped around it.  It's bush league and I'd hesitate to call it "journalism".  This is closer to tabloid level rigor.[/quote]

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