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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!![/quote]

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children. [/quote]

Yes, exactly, schools are "low quality" because school districts don't do enough, not because we tie school funding to property taxes and penalize schools for not being able to pass standardized tests that are really just a measure of SES as a means of keeping them hypersegregated and underfunded.  :roll: [/quote]

In Moco the funding is the same. The issue is concentrated poverty. Thee best way to alleviate concentrated poverty would be busing but rich parents basically bring out the pitchfoiand torches whenever that is suggested.[/quote]

Absolutely. We didn't pay a premium to live in our current zip code only to have our kids bussed across town. What's the point of living in that zip code if not the local schools? We'd just move to DC or VA if this changed or frankly, just go private.[/quote]

Bingo! People buy houses based on schools, which in turn drive home values and it happens everywhere. A tried and true reality of real estate. [/quote]

But we don't HAVE to fund school districts differently based on their tax bases. We choose to do that and it keeps innocent children in a cycle of poverty.

I got rezoned out of a "desirable" school and into one that was highly segregated. School boundaries change based on population shifts. I didn't have any basis for crying about how I was entitled to a certain school when every school in a district should be good enough for all children. And guess what . . . the school that all the UMC mainly white people said wasn't good turned out to be pretty much exactly the same as the school we left, minus the cliquey PTA working itself into a constant frenzy. Even my kid says, "People say my new school isn't as good as my old school, but I like my new school better!"

We need to ask ourselves why we think a school is better and what repercussions those hoarding behaviors have on our kids and other kids. Because that's what people are doing here . . . they are treating a desirable school like some limited resource and justifying lying and, in some cases, outright theft. [/quote]

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