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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools involved:

CHML
Hyde
McKinley Tech
Ellington
Ballou
Richard Wright PCS
Hardy
Wheatley

All else aside, I cannot imagine cheating to get my kid into Ballou.[/quote]

Former Ballou teacher here.

There are quite a few Maryland kids in Ballou. Usually it's because they have family in the surrounding area, and want to go to school with their cousins. They flow back and forth between their relatives' houses, so they may be home one night and staying with that relative the next night. Some kids do it because they want to play sports there although that's been curbed a bit since the investigation a while back.

Coincidentally, the same thing happens with a handful of Ballou-like schools across the Maryland line. It's the worst kept secret. No one seems to notice or care what happens in the less desirable schools, so admins look the other way as long as the students behave. It's even used as leverage to keep some of the repeat offenders in check.

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