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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Who cares if they're city employees? I barely avoided two potholes today just getting my kids to camp. They generally do a horrible job of doing their job. If they don't live in the District, then they A ) go to the back of the line for school and then B ) pay full freight tuition. Why is this even a question[/quote]?

Of course they can go to the back of the line of schools.  That's not a question.  But TDC is conflating the issues here.  Residency fraud is a problem, but municipal employees living outside the city is not.  Why do we care how many district employees live outside DC.  As PP mentioned, there's no law against it.  Other cities do require employees to live in the city, but DC does not.  TDC is trying to get folks upset by shifting the goalposts.  [/quote]

The Daily Caller is saying that it does matter in this context because the MD residents who work in DC are the ones in the supervisory positions and are allowing this unwritten policy that allows MD residents to take advantage of the DC school system.  Whether that's true or not is another thing.  But their anecdotal evidence of the woman who works for the Chancellor rigging the system is pretty damning.  [/quote]

If that's their case then they need to make it.  Who makes the decision on this?  Where does that person live?  Who is under that person?  Where do they live?  By making this about municipal employees writ large, TDC is lumping the decision-makers in with the bus drivers, janitors, and clerks.  TDC has no problem following a child home and confronting their parents in their driveway - how about doing some research and making their case instead of relying on the reader to assume intent? [/quote]

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