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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um, OP, you seem like a jerk.[/quote]

Sure. To offer another perspective, we were a family that was unable to get in anywhere off of the lottery, and ended up having to move, to leave a neighborhood we loved and were heavily invested into and a home that we had literally bought only a couple of years earlier based on the location of three very good neighborhood schools that at the time had neighborhood preference and then changed to city wide lottery. Our one remaining inbound school was going to be doing huge renovations and was having major administrative upheaval, was plagued by residency fraud, and seemed too unstable to make an investment in at that point.

So while I understand the myriad reasons that residency fraud exists and is not cracked down on (because I really had to dig deep to make my peace with it and accept that these children are hopefully benefiting from more than just their parent's commute convenience) it was a cause of agony for us and had huge financial ramifications. We accept that we took an educated risk and lost. But system wide there are substantial, soft costs related to res fraud in the community that are not accounted for. [/quote]

How ... is residency fraud the cause of your issues? You had a neighborhood school you chose not to attend.  If you were in "agony" because you believed that there were kids from a different district attending your school ...so much so that you had to move ... that's truly on you.  [/quote]

I guess you missed the part where there were not enough seats in multiple schools. We didn't have a neighborhood school, we had trailers. Yes, we could have chosen to send our child to the trailer option, but it also came with a high price tag of aftercare. We chose based on the idea that if the Reno moved forward, we would have the neighborhood preference lottery option, which was eliminated in two separate schools within blocks of our house. Lack of capacity due to residency fraud is the issue. Moving when we hadn't planned to was the agony. [/quote]

Dramatic much???  You put yourself though "agony" because your snowflakes couldn't be in a trailers for a year?  And you want to blame it all on residency fraud?  [/quote]

Seriously. PP, don't be ridiculous. I very much doubt that residency fraud is the reason for your "agony." You had a neighborhood school. All DC children have a neighborhood school. The school may be located temporarily somewhere else while renovations occur. Aftercare is not guaranteed, so yes, there is a price tag associated with it. You need to recognize that you made choices that resulted in your current situation, and you should be grateful that you had the option to move available to you. It is not that easy for everyone.[/quote]

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