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by ceejayoz 95 days ago
The thing they're trying to combat is people claiming residency in a better school district. We had a case here where the parents were driving their kid to grandma's so the kid could go to school there instead of in a bad local school.
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john_strinlai 95 days ago
she owns and pays for a home in the school district. the school knows and admits this.

if she didnt, i would (sort of) agree. but she does.

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ceejayoz 95 days ago
Yes. I'm saying there's a legit interest in combatting a real challenge. This is a false positive and a stupid bureaucratic hole of the school's own creation.
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StingyJelly 95 days ago
So what? Grandma's paying taxes there.

Real solution is to loosen regulations on private schools and provide equivalent tax return to parents who choose private over public.

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ceejayoz 95 days ago
> So what? Grandma's paying taxes there.

But the parents aren't, and grandma's tax contribution may have already gone towards funding the parents. The system's structured with local revenue; letting people change their locality too easily messes with that structure a lot.

(I pay, for example, about $3k in school taxes annually, but I have two kids in a $21k/year district. If they have kids, I may be still paying for their education, let alone the grandkids.)

> Real solution is to loosen regulations on private schools and provide equivalent tax return to parents who choose private over public.

Yeah, privatization always results in better results and zero scammy abuses of the system.

(One hopes the /s can go unsaid.)

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nonameiguess 95 days ago
Feels like now we're getting into "falsehoods programmers believe about family." My cousin effectively lived with us when he was a kid and went to school in the district for our house, not his mom's. My niece was raised jointly by my sister and my parents, but my sister's housing situation was so unstable she lived with my parents more often, and went to school in that district as well. What exactly do they even do if a parent has no stable housing at all? Make the kid change schools every month?
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ceejayoz 95 days ago
> Feels like now we're getting into "falsehoods programmers believe about family."

Sure, but that's why a level of human intervention with a touch of empathy is required for cases like this one and the unhoused example.

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