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[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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Why shouldn't the person committing residency fraud have to play the hand they are dealt?  Why should I just suck it up and pay for two more years of daycare while a person from PG County takes my spot at a Hill school? I have no problem standing in line behind DC residents who got a better lottery number than me, but I don't think I should have to suck it up and stand behind cheaters. [/quote]

OK, so what's your plan to avoid sucking it up if you lack lottery luck?  Sue?
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