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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is "moral" and "right" to treat someone as a leech on DC schools and forbid them from attending when they are in fact contributing substantial financial resources to support said DC schools?

It's not so much about what's "moral" or "right", it's strictly about what the law says.  [/quote]

and the law says that if you are not a DC resident (meaning living in DC), your kid cannot go to DCPS or a DC charter, unless you pay out state tuition and get at the end of the line in case there is a wailist (and I am pretty sure the school OP wants to send her kid to has a waitlist). so, for a sought after DCPS school or charter, if you are not a DC resident, your kid cannot attend it. Op can simply apply to the DC school for her kid and make her family living situation known to DCPS or to the charter, and see what happens.

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Someone who owns property in DC IS ALREADY PAYING for DCPS schools.  So basically they are paying TWICE if they then also have to pay out-of-state tuition on top of that.

I'm not advocating for living outside of DC and going to school in DC (and in fact if I was going to live outside of DC, I'd just as soon go to one of the better school districts in the burbs), I'm just pointing out that there is a problem with the policy.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. even without considering that the rule is residency, and not whether you own property in DC, even by your standard they are not paying twice at all. OP said she owns a small 2bd home where she lived pre-kids. how much is she paying in taxes? maybe 3-4K a year? how much of that goes to DCPS and charters? she is renting the place (and I am sure the rent is several times the amount of the annual property taxes), is she coming every week to collect her renter's garbage or there is a publicly paid service that does it for her, paid by DC homeowners. what about police, firefighters, wat about light in the streets at night, what about the roads her renters are driving on to get to OP's home, she did not build them. is she coming tomorrow to put salt on the street and remove the snow for her renters? if each pupil in DCPS cost 9 or 10K a year, she is really not already paying at all.[/quote]

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