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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People's obsession with residency fraud is a great example of the availability bias at work ...

Listen up.  Eradicating residency fraud will save a few bucks and may make some people feel better.  But it will NOT:

- Guarantee that you don't get "shut out" of your PK3 choice
- Make any of the schools that still have PK3 slots any more acceptable to you
- Make it any more likely that you will keep your child all the way through 5th grade in many of the neighborhoods where people complain about PK3 slots
- Solve the terrible achievement gap still present in DC 
- Explain why UMC kids get CMI, but low SES kids get Rocketship
- Provide a good middle school on Capitol Hill
- Provide a good high school on Capitol Hill
- Solves overcrowding at Deal and makes Hardy a more viable option 
- Modernize all the schools that desperately need it
- Create a gifted and talented program that serves everyone and strengthens neighborhood schools overall
- Ensures that disabled kids actually get their needs met at DCPS and charters
- Meets all the demand for bilingual education
- Gives all students the amount of recess and outdoor time necessary for their healthy development
- or any of the other zillion problems discussed here on a daily basis[/quote]

It might not do those things.  But I pay a shitload in DC taxes.  I pay a premium to live in this city and I don't get premium services for this privilege.  (though I do get a shorter commute and for the most part a city that has worked fairly well for me - I'm not one to complain too much about the city).

It does bother me that people in MD put their kids in DC schools.  DCPS has made great strides, but there are still lots of problems.  And charters operate with all sorts of problems, too.  There are real issues of space allocations across sectors, of renovating underperforming and under enrolled schools, and poor education of vulnerable children.  Maryland is a relatively wealthy state that does well on almost all societal markers.

I'd like DC to operate in a more efficient, effective manner.  And that means kicking out what truly does seem to be a relatively high percentage of residency fraudsters.  I'm not someone who believes in any way that people on public assistance should be forced to take drug tests or anything.  I think that's a waste of resources.  But here in DC, with schools with long waiting lists, with schools that are underperforming, with a tight city budget, with massive problems providing special education services, etc etc etc - I cannot stand the thought of a relatively wealthy neighboring state offloading hundreds of kids off their rolls and onto ours.

I think this is a big problem and I think it has to stop.  [/quote]

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