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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whenever this type of thread comes up, most reasonable people express sympathy for the kids involved and prefer to place their best interests above that of the scheming parents.
And then the inevitable retort on the part of the OP and co is that all these posters must be immoral and probably commit fraud themselves. This is so predictable.

OP, I really hope that someone calls you out when you do something the least bit wrong. Busybodies like you don't even realize that you hold others to standards that you might not hold for yourself. No one is perfect. Everyone breaks the rules in different ways. You are the type of person who will always find excuses for your own rule-breaking, but never excuse it in others. [/quote]

So basically you endorse people breaking rules for their own benefit

newsflash to the boundary cheats: you can cheat, you can probably get away with it, but you cannot stop people from judging you as a lying cheat. And some will report you. FAFO. [/quote]

PP you replied to. As this thread shows (and multiple ones before it), most people don't judge that hard. It's only you and a very small minority who can muster up enough hate. Morally, I think you are in the wrong to be so punitive. There are rules and rules. Some rules aren't that important. Some rules are extremely important. Being rigid and inflexible and not knowing which is which is bad. Not good. And again, it's not like you have some sort of moral high ground. I'm sure that when you skirt the rules, you tell yourself you have very good reasons to do so, and absolve yourself any blame!

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This actually is an important rule. And if you break the rule (because you narcissistically believe you are entitled to lie to get what everyone else goes through great efforts to get legally) then you sign up for the consequences. You don’t get to be a cheater and also castigate people for being immoral for calling you out on your cheating. [/quote]

That's debatable. In practice, it's not important because most people follow the rule. The few people who don't, get the side-eye and there's enough threats in the system to discourage a larger number of people from doing shady stuff. [b]This allows the majority to stay compassionate and not report families who might be breaking the rule. [/b]

It's critical to understand how compassion only works in systems that generally work as intended and have a little wiggle room for a few rule-breakers. Most systems are able to accommodate such situations. Boundaries in DCPS are generally followed. DCPS is NOT academically great overall, but that's not because a few families break the rules to maneuver their way to the "good" schools. It's because DC has a preponderance of low-income families who struggle with school attendance and other socio-economic problems like family stability, gang associations and general apathy towards education, and those impacts scores and learning atmospheres in certain schools.

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