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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Education and ethics

I overheard a friend of a friend recount an interesting story about the difficulty he and his wife were having trying to provide a quality education for their child.

They live in suburban Detroit, and wanted their child to go to a school in a well-regarded district. The problem was their district of choice was not the one they lived in, but rather a district with a top-rated high school that happened to be located a few municipalities away.

That was okay, they figured, they would rent an apartment in their targeted district thereby establishing residency. Well, sort of. In actuality they were merely securing an address, for which they paid somewhere in the ballpark of $7,000-$10,000 a year. They figured it was worth that much to send their child to a school that they were certain would provide a quality education.

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