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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm kind of stunned at the PP who is posting "NBD" about all the families she knows who are blatantly breaking the law.

Where do you draw the line, PP? "I know red means stop, but I'm in a hurry and it's NBD." "I know I should pay for this meal, but the service kind of sucked, so NBD."[/quote]

On top of this remember that the homes in the areas of schools that people want to send their kids to are probably more expensive than the schools where they live in.

But the parents who are doing so by altering addresses or using a friend's address are basically getting the benefits of the good school without paying for it.  Like how the people who live in the neighborhood paid the price to live in that neighborhood to go to the school.

The people are willing to go so far as paying rent to send their kids to a certain might be the exception to this.

But it would only be fair to ask parents that want their kids to go to the "good" schools to either pay up to live in the area that the school serves or pay by sending their kids to private school.
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I'm trying so hard to resist responding. But I can't.

You do not purchase access to an exclusive school through your mortgage. You do not have a greater right to the school the more your home costs. The boundaries of your school could change tomorrow. Ten families could cram into a 2 bedroom apartment in your school zone and still have as much of a right to attend the school as you.

I believe in following the boundary rules as much as anyone, but I can't stand the argument that someone bought themselves a better school because they paid so much for their house, and that others who didn't pay that much are stealing their education. All the money in the county is pooled and redistributed to each school. You are not paying for YOUR school with your property taxes![/quote]

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