Philadelphia parents, specifically in Upper Darby have been attempting and successfully enrolling their children into schools in the surrounding suburbs proximal to the city. Majority of them have good intentions, to provide the best opportunity for a quality education, but by costly, false means. One way schools districts have been finding people out is because the neighborhoods surrounding the schools are those in which most people know each other, so it would be noticeable if an "outsider" came in. School choise simply cannot be "free-for-all", James Wigo, assistant superintendant for curriculum and instruction for the Upper Darby School District. Families who have breach the school systems have been forced to pay tuitions that the local taxpayers have been forced to cover because of the influx of students.
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