Maryland Kids Attending DC Schools

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In what alternate universe are you 7 miles from DC while living in Fairfax County?

NP. I think the alternate universe is yours. The FFX County line meets the District's at the Potomac River. It's less than half a mile from Chain Bridge. All of McLean and parts of Dunn Loring and Vienna are within seven miles of DC, sorry.

I mean that's hours away in traffic. Plus if you don't get into TJ, you're stuck in a classroom full of losers. No thanks.

Just stop. You're making us DC parents look bad. Also I commute to Fairfax county in under 30 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would be the best way for DCPS to investigate residency cheaters?

Cross check DCPS records of residency with DC income tax filings. Shouldn't be very hard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Catching Residency cheats in DCPS is a perfect example of Sayre's law in action.

If DCPS parents spent a fraction of the time and energy they spend trying to catch "residency cheats" being dropped of by grandma or the nanny on brainstorming ways to improve DCPS, they might have schools worth sneaking into by 2030.

Don't be ridiculous. Obviously, no one spends any time trying to catch residency cheats.

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not. But 70 pages in, there's a ton of brain cells related to this issue: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/568109.page

Discussing it on DCUM is not spending time or energy to trying to catch anyone. Hopefully they realize that.

+1

There is no political will to enforce this and many forces terrified of losing those ~3k students from the system. The handful of people who get tossed every year are largely the result of them doing something silly to get caught or the occasional report to OSSE being taken seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

In what alternate universe are you 7 miles from DC while living in Fairfax County?

NP. I think the alternate universe is yours. The FFX County line meets the District's at the Potomac River. It's less than half a mile from Chain Bridge. All of McLean and parts of Dunn Loring and Vienna are within seven miles of DC, sorry.

I mean that's hours away in traffic. Plus if you don't get into TJ, you're stuck in a classroom full of losers. No thanks.

Just stop. You're making us DC parents look bad. Also I commute to Fairfax county in under 30 minutes.

Going against traffic.

And if you don't get into the AAP in Fairfax, you ARE in fact stuck in a classroom of the bottom tier students.

You embarrass me.