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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Why is it unhinged to think ans say that lying is shitty and wrong? It IS wrong. It IS bad.

If I'm taking my Kindergarten kid to a playdate at an OOB house at a school that is closed to OOB students, you'd better believe I'm turned off by that.

They're liars. They think they're better than other people; that they don't have to play by the rules. "Moving in with grandpa" is the same thing.

I get that you're doing it for your kid, but it's wrong, and it implies that you think it's ok to cheat for your family because your family is more special than other families. Believe me, you're not the only family with the issue of living in bad to so-so school district. The fact that some people choose to solve that problem by cheating is reprehensible, in my opinion. Calling this kind of judgement unhinged isn't fair, it's defensive and it is suspect.[/quote]

Seriously?  You're going to pick your kid's playmates by their address and then have the temerity to judge the character of other people?  You [i]are[/i] unhinged.

Read that thread on the history of OOB.  People have been moving around to find the best possible school option for generations.  The flip side of your argument about what parents will do is that those families who remain in failing schools [i]"don't value education."[/i] It's repeated on these forums so much, you'd think it were fact.

Public education is a resource for the public.  We're all paying taxes for it - even families who send their kids to private schools.  Which is where you should be so long as you think elitism is a virtue.[/quote]

New Poster. I am IB for a truly awful school, which my daughter attends. I would never consider what OP is suggesting. What kind of message would that send to my child? We don't have a city-wide lottery. It was suggested and it failed. If you want a guaranteed right to go to a great school, then you actually have to live in the boundary. Otherwise, get in OOB or move to where you can afford to be Ib for a good school (further out 'burbs for us). [/quote]

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