First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These. Women. Need. Therapy.

If there is a 1 in 100 hot of your child getting into pk3, a program that does not exist in most of the US AT ALL, you should be more concerned with expanding the program, rather than the 5 students put of the hundred lotterying with you who "might" be cheating the system.

But I'm rich, and I have a 2 year old, so let's play pretend.

We live in Mount pleasant. If I rent a studio apartment next year zoned foruch, I've "bought" the right to lottery in boundary? Correct? You'd have no problem with that?

and p.s. Yes but even if there are 500 spots for PK3 and only 400 DC students that want the spots, and 100 MD students are attending, I'd still be pissed if they're attending and not paying. It's really quite simple - you want to use DC resident benefits like schools, MOVE TO DC AND PAY YOUR GODDAMN TAXES!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am still so amazed there are so many women willing to make blind, blanket assumptions about someone else's life. I can't believe this is actually true in real life... perhaps just there's a small and obsessive cohort here, who are all.obsessed.

And pathetic.

Bored housewives and househusbands alert!!! It's DCUM - the entire thing is for amusement only. Like online gambling sites. It seems legit until you realize that n one has skin in the game so behavior is neither rational nor well considered. These conversations exist in anonymity in cyberspace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with you people, seriously? Maybe the person with the grandparents lives close to the MD border, and the grandparents live close to them but in MD. Why so much doubt? Do you really think that person would come onto DCUM and just make something up?

We have doubt because WE actually are DC residents and know the reality of living in DC, driving around DC, registering cars in DC, out of state residency violations (re: parking your MD tagged car in DC), etc.

Um, until VERY recently I was a long-time DC resident, and I now live in a close in suburb in MD. So I think I know the "reality of living in DC, driving around DC, registering cars in DC...." Again, such negative assumptions on the Board re: others!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter will get dropped off daily with MD tags. We live in DC but my parents, who watch the kids, live in MD and they handle drop off and pick up. Every. Single. Day. Don't be a vigilante and try to have some faith in the system.

FWIW, my DD will be starting pre-k4 at Bethune who gets criticized all over DCUM for having MD families. Guess I need to prepare myself for nasty looks. The school does home visits, so there is no way we could be lying

How does that even work? Your parents drive from Maryland to DC to 'watch' school age children and take them
To school. Wow that's very generous of them.

and no, you could still be lying if the school does home visits. I mean - how hard is it to set up a bedroom in the DC house and make it look like the kid is living there?

Np here. Maybe this family has younger (non-school age kids) that the grandparents watch all day while the parents work and the drop-off and pick-up duties are a small part of their day.

[Anonymous]

All of the maybes and possible explanations will be quickly revealed if this is investigated by proper authorities once reported by OP.

Anyone legitimate can quickly demonstrate this.

[Anonymous]

Yes. It is an extremely efficient use of your DC taxpayer dollars, having every car with MD plates that appears within a 3-block radius of your school investigated for possible residence fraud.

I was also thinking maybe we should tag the children with subcutaneous gps trackers, just to make sure they weren't spending too much time in Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. It is an extremely efficient use of your DC taxpayer dollars, having every car with MD plates that appears within a 3-block radius of your school investigated for possible residence fraud.

Yes, this is exactly what many of us are proposing. Well done. #nailedit

[Anonymous]

Do you guys... never use Maryland roads? Libraries? Visit any Maryland businesses?

I'm wondering, because you seem so irate, because omg taxes.

Don't Maryland people pay MORE taxes? Do you think Bethesda is full of.women wearing Lululemon complaining about the "district" people who.come there?

I'm pretty sure it is.

[Anonymous]

Maryland residents don't pay taxes in DC. And no, as a DC resident I don't go to MD schools, use the MD library, or use other resources that are exclusively for Md residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maryland residents don't pay taxes in DC. And no, as a DC resident I don't go to MD schools, use the MD library, or use other resources that are exclusively for Md residents.

As a DC resident you actually can use the MC libraries, and vice versa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But DC residents don't have the right to go to MD schools, or vice versa.

True. Just the libraries.

[Anonymous]

But DC residents don't have the right to go to MD schools, or vice versa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of the maybes and possible explanations will be quickly revealed if this is investigated by proper authorities once reported by OP.

Anyone legitimate can quickly demonstrate this.

Have your experiences with DCPS all been quick and easy? Because that is not my experience. I am not confident that DCPS would be able to quickly resolve anything. I think more likely they'd tell you to arrive at the central office with 3 pieces of hard to get hold of paperwork in the middle of the workday.

[Anonymous]

dc resident with two different va library cards - one of which allows me to check out e books.

Agree preschool is kinda different as are in-demand public and charter schools. But I'm ok if one parents lives in DC (even a weekend parent). Maybe ok if a grandma lives here (though in both cases we should not be talking about just accessing free preschool before enrolling in K in MD - though I'd say the same for upper-NW dc residents who access free pk3 and 4 EOTP) . Not ok with using a property you own as a residency address. mom, dad, or grandparent needs to be dc resident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The custodial parent in a divorce must have an in bound residence to register a student. At Wilson they are grilling parents--You have to show your divorce decree as proof. Additionally, the parent who originally enrolled the child in school must be PRESENT at the time you are registering your kid--even if circumstances have changed. In this way they avoid getting in the middle of a battle between parents.

They mean business--I saw them doing this. There are cameras everywhere to record plates and interactions with parents. I've never seen them be so strict.

Thanks for clarifying, b/c I was going to ask. No dog in this hunt for me, but my brother had to take legal primary custody of my niece for her to be inbound for her school in another state. He and mom share custody, but now with him 60% so that DN could attend the school for which he is inbounds. Does DCPS require primary custody? Bro and Ex had to arrange respective nights at each home in order to meet the requirement. Still, the Ex is doing some drop offs during the school week, even though she is out of bounds. Can't tell in the other state because they just cross school district lines, not state lines.

Frankly, I have never understood why anyone would want to have kids in DCPS, but that's me.