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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You sound like those Second Amendment gun nuts who claim that new gun safety laws are pointless because they won't solve 100% of the gun problems.

You do know we're allowed to address many different problems in different ways, don't you?  Not every solution has to be the magic bullet that provides all the answers.[/quote]

By no stretch of the imagination am I a "Second Amendment gun nut" but alas, I'm logical.

If gun nuts were the problem (and I'm not one - no guns in my house now or ever), we'd know about it.  They're out there with their hunting clubs and gun ranges and whatever it is they do.

The problem is the inner city criminals who don't vote at all, and couldn't give less of a damn about the laws they're going to break anyway.  So what if you take away your neighbor's gun?  Your neighbor wasn't planning to break the law.  That's now so much easier for one more registered lunatic to go shoot up a nightclub.  [/quote]

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