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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And, even if the total number of students initially identified were not all cheaters, their paperwork was dodgy enough to raise concerns, which overall indicates the registrar at Ellington is not doing due diligence. Just because those families proved residence, doesn’t mean the paperwork was proper up front. [/quote]

This is what jumped out at me.  Even if all the kids ultimately proved their residency, the fact that so many were enrolled with suspect paperwork is a problem.  I can understand that a few students are going to have unusual living arrangements, but most people should be able to supply the requisite number of approved documents.  The school needs to be vetting this stuff better.  [/quote]

We do not know what the paperwork problems were.  If the registrar was sloppy, that does not mean that the paperwork was "dodgy" in a blame the parents way.  I have filed residency paperwork every year for the past 9 years.  This past year I forgot to sign in one spot and months later our school registrar caught it and reached out to me and I then signed correctly.  She is a good registrar and I made an inadvertent mistake and she failed to catch it.

[b]It is a really big deal that OSSE made such huge errors.  It undermines the ability to rely on its work and public claims.  Yes, cheating is bad, but so is bungled enforcement[/b].  [/quote]

But it wasn't OSSE's error!  It was a failure by the school to have appropriate paperwork for all families.  At my child's HRC, which my child has attended for 6 years, every parent completes the residency paperwork every year.  Even when the administrators know your family well.  You meet with someone at the school to confirm it is all in order.  And it is really simple.  And at our school, which has a high percentage of low income families, they still find a way to get it done. Obviously, this was too much of a burden for Ellington's administration - perhaps they thought they were above the rules that apply to other schools and were too casual about the whole process, or perhaps they knew they had a significant number of nonresidents (15% is still a huge number) and didn't want to enforce rules that would have required them to take action against families.  Either way, if Ellington failed to maintain the records appropriately, it is 100%  Ellington's fault, not OSSE's. [/quote]

I agree with this. Why was Ellington's paperwork so messed up in the first place? I think some of the notice procedures on OSSE's side could have been handled better, no doubt, but there are hundreds of other schools in the system working with students who have complicated circumstances who take this seriously and get it done. [/quote]

Exactly, they have less low-income/transient students than some schools need the former DC Gov shelter and DCPS and they managed to get it done. [/quote]

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