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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been in the neighborhood long enough (15 years) to know that there are boatloads of lovely people on the Hill, a great many generous and easy-going parents of toddlers and school-age kids with a big vision for humanity. The entitled crowd, including the type of parent hell bent on busting boundary cheaters and PC County address cheaters seeking a good ECE education for their kids, is comprised mainly by relatively recent arrivals, families who came and bought property within the last five years or so.  The old timers learned to roll with the punches somewhere along the way.  If they'd hadn't, they'd have left.
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I've been here 15 years too (ok fine 14). Maybe it is different when they are taking your kid's spot. It is easy to be easy going when it doesn't directly effect you.[/quote]

How in the hell can you know who "took" your kid's spot?  You were #1 on a WL and you know an address cheater personally who got off the WL ahead of you?  The spots they give away aren't numbered; in case where DCPS is auctioning off 28 PreK3 spots you can't find out who got took #28, that's not how it works.  I know plenty of people on Cap Hill (self included) who were shut out of their ECE program in-boundary for a year or two, parents who know neighborhood address cheaters, and MD address cheaters for that matter, who have never bitched. They cheerfully got on with things elsewhere for PreK3 and sometimes PreK4, too. You play the hand you're dealt.

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Easy there...

You are right, the spots aren't numbered 1-28. Therefore if any of those 28 kids was from a cheating family, they would be taking a spot from a kid on the WL.

Yes we had a low number and didn't get in. Yes we "played our hand," and everyone is fine. Still does not make it right for cheaters to cheat. [/quote]

Honestly, I'm one of those people who used to not care.  Until this story broke, I thought it was all a joke.  My children are at an HRCS, and we were unaffected.  The only evidence I ever saw was the elderly couple down the street whose children use their address to attend the local DCPS.  (I felt sorry for all of them because there's no way we would use that school.  It's not over-subscribed.).  This story has highlighted a different perspective.  [/quote]

We are another family to get in their top-choice HRCS where I do not know of a single family from Maryland (they're very rigorous when you register).  However, I drive past Stuart-Hobson and I can't help but marvel at the Maryland plate after Maryland plate.  I totally understand the reasons for it - nanny, grandma, failure to re-register.  However, after the first ten cars you have to wonder.  And I also know of dozens of people who were shut out of ECE.  It's not fair.[/quote]

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