"Faux liberals?" Ridiculous. Spare us.

The obvious problem is that DC still doesn't have nearly enough halfway decent public schools to go around, explaining why a small minority of families gets creative on residency.

At our IB DCPS elementary school, more than half the families have jumped ship for Washington Latin or BASIS between 4th and 5th grades for the past decade. It's a sad story because most of these families actually like the school and would gladly stay to the end if it led to an appealing middle school. It's too easy to blame "liberals" for an outrage that never ends. Report in-boundary fraud if you want, but you won't be getting at the root of the problem.

Faux liberals jump school lines and vaccine lines with equal unethical aplomb. The next time they say “equity,” just say remember how you drove yourself to Baltimore to steal the vaccine so you could winter in Cabo? Or when you pretended you were “nesting” to get little Juniper and Jasper into Lafayette?

DC was vaccinating health care workers from all over the DMV ahead of the states where they lived. MD and VA did not come close to contributing appropriate levels of vaccines.

This idiot and Elissa Silverman (and her staff) are the only people to snark at DC residents helping everyone by getting the vaccine they are entitled to.

Not even worth arguing with them.

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Anonymous wrote:DMV is essentially one big neighborhood. Get over it. The more vaccinated people in the DMV the better. The virus doesn't have borders.

The same cab be said for boundary/residency “fraud.”

Not exactly. School funding is local. Vaccinations were federal - and also for the same product. Your snark is lazy.

Eh. Your frontal lobe is dysfunctional. School funding in DC IS mostly federal (oops). And mass vax sites in Maryland were partially funded by state funds (double oops).So, if we're going to assert that we're one big neighborhood for vaccines - we have no moral basis with which to oppose boundary or residence self-maximalization.

NP. If you don’t see the difference between getting a vaccination (which protects me but also the community), and getting your kid into a more desirable school (which helps no one besides your family and arguably hurts the local school community if the school is already overcrowded), then maybe you should be worrying about your own frontal lobe.

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Anonymous wrote:DMV is essentially one big neighborhood. Get over it. The more vaccinated people in the DMV the better. The virus doesn't have borders.

The same cab be said for boundary/residency “fraud.”

Not exactly. School funding is local. Vaccinations were federal - and also for the same product. Your snark is lazy.

Eh. Your frontal lobe is dysfunctional. School funding in DC IS mostly federal (oops). And mass vax sites in Maryland were partially funded by state funds (double oops).So, if we're going to assert that we're one big neighborhood for vaccines - we have no moral basis with which to oppose boundary or residence self-maximalization.

Where are you getting this from?

DC was not eligible for a FEMA site partially because it is not a state. MD congressmen (until recently) have consistently voted against DC statehood because they don't want their constituents to pay for the roads they use in DC and congress can't block a toll if DC is a state. My understanding was that the FEMA sites were funded by the feds, not the states which is why Hogan was not allowed to prevent DC residents from using it.

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Anonymous wrote:DMV is essentially one big neighborhood. Get over it. The more vaccinated people in the DMV the better. The virus doesn't have borders.

The same cab be said for boundary/residency “fraud.”

Not exactly. School funding is local. Vaccinations were federal - and also for the same product. Your snark is lazy.

Eh. Your frontal lobe is dysfunctional. School funding in DC IS mostly federal (oops). And mass vax sites in Maryland were partially funded by state funds (double oops).So, if we're going to assert that we're one big neighborhood for vaccines - we have no moral basis with which to oppose boundary or residence self-maximalization.

You're a moron.

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Anonymous wrote:DMV is essentially one big neighborhood. Get over it. The more vaccinated people in the DMV the better. The virus doesn't have borders.

The same cab be said for boundary/residency “fraud.”

Not exactly. School funding is local. Vaccinations were federal - and also for the same product. Your snark is lazy.

Eh. Your frontal lobe is dysfunctional. School funding in DC IS mostly federal (oops). And mass vax sites in Maryland were partially funded by state funds (double oops).So, if we're going to assert that we're one big neighborhood for vaccines - we have no moral basis with which to oppose boundary or residence self-maximalization.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DMV is essentially one big neighborhood. Get over it. The more vaccinated people in the DMV the better. The virus doesn't have borders.

The same cab be said for boundary/residency “fraud.”

Not exactly. School funding is local. Vaccinations were federal - and also for the same product. Your snark is lazy.

Anonymous wrote:DMV is essentially one big neighborhood. Get over it. The more vaccinated people in the DMV the better. The virus doesn't have borders.

The same cab be said for boundary/residency “fraud.”

DMV is essentially one big neighborhood. Get over it. The more vaccinated people in the DMV the better. The virus doesn't have borders.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares? At least they OWN the property in-bounds. That is like 1 billion times better than all the rest of shady residency and boundary fraud that is going on all the time.

Thank you! Own their home, pay their taxes, done. I guess it could get sticky if they rent to a family with similar aged kids.
Everyone's definition of reportable cheating is different but out of state people.are the worst. No taxes paid for property or income. Enjoying their home area but benefiting from the city.

The DC website does say not interested in boundary issues.

Yep - but it goes both ways. There are DC residents who have shady rentals/family claimed addresses in the burbs so they can go to school in MoCo, and a lot of DC residents proudly stole vaccines from MD residents because their white privileged asses couldn't wait two weeks to get vaccinated in DC, cause like "vacation goals" and such. There is a lot of fraud flowing across the border from DC to MD (and probably DC to VA).

Funny. When I was in line for my vaccine appt, the guy in front of me and woman behind me were both from MD. This was at Washington Hospital Center before walk up appts.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares? At least they OWN the property in-bounds. That is like 1 billion times better than all the rest of shady residency and boundary fraud that is going on all the time.

Thank you! Own their home, pay their taxes, done. I guess it could get sticky if they rent to a family with similar aged kids.
Everyone's definition of reportable cheating is different but out of state people.are the worst. No taxes paid for property or income. Enjoying their home area but benefiting from the city.

The DC website does say not interested in boundary issues.

Yep - but it goes both ways. There are DC residents who have shady rentals/family claimed addresses in the burbs so they can go to school in MoCo, and a lot of DC residents proudly stole vaccines from MD residents because their white privileged asses couldn't wait two weeks to get vaccinated in DC, cause like "vacation goals" and such. There is a lot of fraud flowing across the border from DC to MD (and probably DC to VA).

Still f*ckin' that chicken, huh?

You are a sicko.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, then just advise them to move in for a month so they can enroll by the book. Then nobody is cheating and everyone's happy. Problem solved!

Sorry, they will still be perceived as cheaters, even if what they did was technically legal. It’s called gaming the system, which in most people’s minds is pretty close to cheating. They would prefer to have a classmate who actually lives in that apartment.

Well can't please everyone. I guess it's a good way to weed out the pearl clutchers anyways.

Wait, until they learn about how the economy actually works. The people who game the system are nearly always the winners.

Seriously, I'd be impressed if I saw someone beat the system. The lottery SUCKS for all of us that don't have the money for a house in Ward 3. Good for anyone that figured out how to make the system work for them.

+1. The only people I blame are DCPS for having only 1 traditional high school that could be considered even remotely acceptable to families who have aspiration for their children to attend and do well in competitive 4 year colleges

You do realize that Wilson is only “acceptable” because people who live in the neighborhood have been giving it a chance for years. EOTP schools will never reach that status of acceptability if neighborhood families of means keep using escape hatches to W3 and charters.

Now this is hilarious!! Oh the great white savior that makes sacrifices to attend their neighborhood school in a neighborhood that is 85% white at 0% low income! Love how you look down at those that don’t want to actually go to Dunbar.

Obviously the situation is very different and nobody wants to send their high achieving kid to Dunbar, but the point remains that schools EOTP will never improve if higher SES parents, black and white, keep opting out. How do you think things can ever change? DCPS cannot just start offering courses geared towards high achievers when none ever attend. Maybe it’s unsolvable and we just need to keep cramming everybody into Deal and Wilson.

Still pretty obnoxious for parents who weren’t exactly in the vanguard at Wilson to lecture the rest of us on how to fix our schools.