Can we get a district wide residency check of all FCPS high schools?

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS schools do residency checks each year. We send letters to our families that need to be returned. If the letters “bounce” or are not returned, we know there is something fishy.

Many parents who do this are gaming the system. They own property (a cheap condo or something) in the boundary of the school they want and rent it out. When investigated, they are easily able to produce a mortgage statement. Following up on each of these requires detective work (i.e. following a family home each day) and effectively ruins the relationship with a school and the family. It would need to be an external group with a lot of time and funding.

I would volunteer to do the investigative work!

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Anonymous wrote:FCCPS requires residency verification every year

Same with DCPS.

People sneak into DC public schools?

Yes, they really do. They work in the city and drop their kids off on the way in. They may have lived in DC at one time and want their kids at a particular school.

[Anonymous]

At our local FCPS HS (bottom 1/3rd rated on here)- an 11th grader had his custodial parent move ( to a better HS boundary) - but wanted to stay at local HS. Was staying with grandparents in local school boundary. A HS AP saw a social media post that parent had moved- and investigated and kid had to leave HS. Average student- no discipline problem. Under enrolled school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS schools do residency checks each year. We send letters to our families that need to be returned. If the letters “bounce” or are not returned, we know there is something fishy.

Many parents who do this are gaming the system. They own property (a cheap condo or something) in the boundary of the school they want and rent it out. When investigated, they are easily able to produce a mortgage statement. Following up on each of these requires detective work (i.e. following a family home each day) and effectively ruins the relationship with a school and the family. It would need to be an external group with a lot of time and funding.

I would volunteer to do the investigative work!

And this is exactly the problem. I can see overzealous adults that feel like it is their job to enforce things for some reason, starting to stalk and follow students.
We've definitely seen bad things happen when adults feel like "some kid doesn't belong in the neighborhood/school/whatever "

And I'm all for the checks, but this discussion gives me the ick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCCPS requires residency verification every year

Falls Church residents would require residency verification to cross into their city limits if they could figure out how to pull it off. They also have like 12 kids in the school system, so it’s pretty cut & dry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS schools do residency checks each year. We send letters to our families that need to be returned. If the letters “bounce” or are not returned, we know there is something fishy.

Many parents who do this are gaming the system. They own property (a cheap condo or something) in the boundary of the school they want and rent it out. When investigated, they are easily able to produce a mortgage statement. Following up on each of these requires detective work (i.e. following a family home each day) and effectively ruins the relationship with a school and the family. It would need to be an external group with a lot of time and funding.

I would volunteer to do the investigative work!

Yeah that’s exactly what we need- an overzealous keyboard warrior all hyped up to catch “the bad guys.”

I suppose you want to be armed as well, just in case, right?

[Anonymous]

This post is classic dcum. People are outraged over the possibility that migrants have snuck over the border into their school (almost certainly Mclean or Langley), but the migrants they are concerned about aren't from other countries, they are from places like Sterling and Fairfax. Or in the case of Langley, from Mclean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This post is classic dcum. People are outraged over the possibility that migrants have snuck over the border into their school (almost certainly Mclean or Langley), but the migrants they are concerned about aren't from other countries, they are from places like Sterling and Fairfax. Or in the case of Langley, from Mclean.

Nope.

We wouldn't care if Reid and the school board wasn't pushing a One Fairfax rezoning of our kids out of their neighborhood schools using inflated/faked enrollment projections, refusing to do a residency check to confirm enrollment is accurate, while simultaneously requiring a county wide residency check of any kid playing any FCPS sport, in an attempt to hide the cheating by Hayfield coaches and administrators, and trying to distract from the Superintendent and school board led cover up.

If FCPS is going to drag all high school athletes at every high school in the county through a residency check, over the misbehavior of a single high school football team, then they sure as heck better do a residency check of all high school students over something as important and significant as county wide rezoning.

After all, is the primary purpose of FCPS football? Or academics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This post is classic dcum. People are outraged over the possibility that migrants have snuck over the border into their school (almost certainly Mclean or Langley), but the migrants they are concerned about aren't from other countries, they are from places like Sterling and Fairfax. Or in the case of Langley, from Mclean.

🙄 your constant focus on Langley is pretty lame.

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Anonymous wrote:This post stinks of "tell on your neighbor". Yes, everybody should be following rules and proper procedures, but it is up to the county to verify. Soon we'll have parents stalking children home with the way these threads go.

Not at all. If you live within the boundary of where your kid goes to school, it shouldn't be a very big deal to show evidence that you live there. This isn't hard.

Agree! The only people who would be opposed to this are those whose kids shouldn't be there in the first place.

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Kind of reminds me of those who oppose voter ID. It shouldn’t be a problem for those who are actually citizens to obtain an ID. But according to the left, it’s just a bridge too far to require it. So arduous (and “racist!!”). They couldn’t *possibly* manage this task.
DP

I took my son to get his learner's permit last week. In order to do this I had to take time off work, hop in my car, pick up my son and drive him to the DMV, then pay a fee for the ID. We're fortunate that none of this posed a hardship to our family.

Now imagine a family that doesn't own a car, can't afford to take time off work, and has no room in their budget for that fee. There's no way their teenager is getting that learner's permit since there is no motor vehicle to operate. But shouldn't that teenager have the same right to vote once they turn 18 as my teenager?

The DMV provides IDs for $10, can be found on bus routes and are open Mon-Sat. An 18 year old can figure this out.

That's this area, sure. What about 18-year-olds who live in rural areas without bus service?

Is there a specific part of rural Fairfax county you are concerned about?

I'm concerned about areas across the country. PP (maybe it was you, maybe not) brought up people who oppose voter ID and stated "it shouldn't be a problem for those who are actually citizens to obtain an ID." I apologize for responding to an off-topic argument with another off-topic argument.

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Meh, maybe schools shouldn’t be restricted by residency at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This post stinks of "tell on your neighbor". Yes, everybody should be following rules and proper procedures, but it is up to the county to verify. Soon we'll have parents stalking children home with the way these threads go.

Not at all. If you live within the boundary of where your kid goes to school, it shouldn't be a very big deal to show evidence that you live there. This isn't hard.

Agree! The only people who would be opposed to this are those whose kids shouldn't be there in the first place.

+1
Kind of reminds me of those who oppose voter ID. It shouldn’t be a problem for those who are actually citizens to obtain an ID. But according to the left, it’s just a bridge too far to require it. So arduous (and “racist!!”). They couldn’t *possibly* manage this task.
DP

I took my son to get his learner's permit last week. In order to do this I had to take time off work, hop in my car, pick up my son and drive him to the DMV, then pay a fee for the ID. We're fortunate that none of this posed a hardship to our family.

Now imagine a family that doesn't own a car, can't afford to take time off work, and has no room in their budget for that fee. There's no way their teenager is getting that learner's permit since there is no motor vehicle to operate. But shouldn't that teenager have the same right to vote once they turn 18 as my teenager?

The DMV provides IDs for $10, can be found on bus routes and are open Mon-Sat. An 18 year old can figure this out.

That's this area, sure. What about 18-year-olds who live in rural areas without bus service?

Is there a specific part of rural Fairfax county you are concerned about?

I'm concerned about areas across the country. PP (maybe it was you, maybe not) brought up people who oppose voter ID and stated "it shouldn't be a problem for those who are actually citizens to obtain an ID." I apologize for responding to an off-topic argument with another off-topic argument.

Not an issue. You would know this if you were familiar with rural areas.

Why are you derailing a residency thread with hypothetical nonsense that have no basis in fact?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This post stinks of "tell on your neighbor". Yes, everybody should be following rules and proper procedures, but it is up to the county to verify. Soon we'll have parents stalking children home with the way these threads go.

Not at all. If you live within the boundary of where your kid goes to school, it shouldn't be a very big deal to show evidence that you live there. This isn't hard.

Agree! The only people who would be opposed to this are those whose kids shouldn't be there in the first place.

No, lots of us are opposed. I live in our district and I don’t want to annually send a copy of our mortgage to their school.

+1 I alread proved where we lived when my child first enrolled. Waste of time and resources to do it every year:

[Anonymous]

I teach in a "great" hs in fcps. During the SAT (when the students fill out their address), a student "couldn't remember" their address. I looked it up... a little, unknown road called Lee Hwy. Of course there is residency fraud. Of course people should upload proof of residency each year. Like in FCCPS. Like in DC (both DCPS and charters).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alexandria Public Schools is going to do this!

https://www.alxnow.com/2024/11/25/acps-wants-more-docs-from-parents-proving-kids-live-in-alexandria/

Fairfax County, get with the program!

Those efforts have so far resulted in 86 students withdrawn between 2022 and this year, according to ACPS.

The school system noted in a report that “at an average cost of approximately $21,000 per pupil based on trends in the 2025 approved budget” approximately $1.8 million was saved.