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[quote=Anonymous]This is evolved into a debate about boundary crashers and the ethics of doing so.  But let's recap the OP:

OP's MCPS middle school kid told her that a friend lives in a further out suburb and is driven in.  The friend is new to the school.  OP assumes this means the friend's family has faked their address and cannot possibly be attending the school with legitimate documentation.  OP does not assume the kid lives in a different county, merely a suburb of MoCo with a shitty school.

Then PPs dissolve into debate about whether OP should look the other way when a known fraud is operating in her midst, and whether or not it is perfectly ethical for the family to lie in order to go to a better school.

Here's the thing: The OP knows essentially nothing about this kid.  She is relying on something her middle schooler told her about where his/her friend lives.  OP doesn't even know where the kid lives.  OP knows nothing about the situation, other than what her child has told her.  OP's child only knows what the friend has said, and the friend could very likely know nothing about his/her own situation either.  There are several scenarios for this story:

-kid lives out of bounds and the family has forged documents to attend a better school
-kid is legitimately attending the better school on a COSA for any number of approved reasons (none of which the OP or her child would necessarily know about: childcare, bullying, special need, special classes, family bought a home in bounds but has not moved into it yet, divorced parents and parent with primary custody lives in the boundary but kid spends the night with other parent sometimes who then drives the kid to school the next day, WHO KNOWS)
-kid is actually assigned to the better school but is driven in instead of riding the bus
-kid does not exist and OP's kid made the whole thing up because s/he knows OP is a nutcase

Given that OP has disappeared from this thread, I'm going to guess that the first one is probably not the case.[/quote]

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