Jackson-Reed home visits for eligibility verification

[Anonymous]

I just enrolled my kid in JR for 9th grade. We live in bounds- and I provided the verification documents. JR is demanding a home visit to verify eligibility.

Does anyone know if they (1) can require this and (2) are generally doing this? It just feels like a gross invasion of my privacy to have some DCPS personnel snoop around my home.

[Anonymous]

wtf? That is outrageous.

[Anonymous]

Were you previously enrolled in a feeder?

[Anonymous]

Looks like yes, they can request a home visit, but they should first attempt to interview you to about whatever documentation finding was insufficient. It's in the OSSE residency handbook section 4.3

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/SY2024-25%20OER%20Handbook%2003.01.2024.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just enrolled my kid in JR for 9th grade. We live in bounds- and I provided the verification documents. JR is demanding a home visit to verify eligibility.

Does anyone know if they (1) can require this and (2) are generally doing this? It just feels like a gross invasion of my privacy to have some DCPS personnel snoop around my home.

Of course they can do this. Why wouldn't they be able to? Home visits are common and the only way to ensure that fraud isn't occurring.

[Anonymous]

DCPS can do home visits for a variety of reasons- truancy is another one. You can view it as an invasion of privacy but they can certainly do a home visit. You don’t have to open the door or let them in if you don’t want to.

[Anonymous]

What is the big deal? Open the door and let them in for 5 minutes.

No kids at JR but I support this because school is already overcrowded and people try to game the system.

DC has a right to do this and should at more school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the big deal? Open the door and let them in for 5 minutes.

No kids at JR but I support this because school is already overcrowded and people try to game the system.

DC has a right to do this and should at more school.

+1

[Anonymous]

Where were your kids before?

[Anonymous]

I would find it invasive, but I am glad they do this. They need to combat fraud.

[Anonymous]

I also support this. You see the advice a lot on here "just rent an apartment IB for JR" to get your kid into a good HS. Now, if a family is actually moving IB for JR, totally fine. But there are definitely people who would try to just rent something tiny to get an IB address and then stay where they are, and that's fraud.

It's also long term not in anyone's interest. Spots at decent HSs are getting harder to come by, so what we need to do is make more decent high schools, which means discouraging people from using sketchy or fraudulent means to get into one of the handful of good ones.

[Anonymous]

Offer more documentation. Ask to include someone other than just the initial registrar person who has a concern about your paperwork. Explain you are not opposed to home visit but it feels unnecessary/invasive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also support this. You see the advice a lot on here "just rent an apartment IB for JR" to get your kid into a good HS. Now, if a family is actually moving IB for JR, totally fine. But there are definitely people who would try to just rent something tiny to get an IB address and then stay where they are, and that's fraud.

It's also long term not in anyone's interest. Spots at decent HSs are getting harder to come by, so what we need to do is make more decent high schools, which means discouraging people from using sketchy or fraudulent means to get into one of the handful of good ones.

The concern is with families living in VA or MD. That's what they're looking for.

[Anonymous]

As someone who works in a different DCPS school I'm surprised to see that an office is so far in processing their enrollment that they would get to this request.

sus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who works in a different DCPS school I'm surprised to see that an office is so far in processing their enrollment that they would get to this request.

sus.

Maybe they're still working on last year's enrollment.