My story: Accused of Residency Fraud

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are sick to follow families around to investigate residency fraud for grade/middle/high school. Good Lord. Everyone who uses public school is freeloading to some extent...your taxes don't cover the full cost of your kids' educations. Should everyone be charged their full portion and should people who pay local taxes supporting these schools get refunds if they don't use them?

Listen, I don't agree with sending kids out of district when it is not permitted, but I hardly think it is a serious crime. Where we should be focusing our energies, money, and time is in making schools better everywhere by investing in top quality teachers (pay the good ones double) and getting rid of unions.

OP - It is awful anyone did this to you.

Please tell me you don't believe that. That's a ridiculous comparison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's another thing to be considered:

Kids in foster care have the right to continue attending school at their usual school even if placed outside their attendance area.

Schools cannot deny enrollment to homeless students, and a student who becomes homeless and is temporarily staying outside the attendance area is entitled to remain in the school.

And if a kid is in foster care or is homeless, it's nobody's business.

Exactly.

So OP's kids are in neither of those categories.

OP simply feels entitled to move around as she pleases, including using living in random airbnbs and renting MD cars and having absolutely no one question her, because, hey, she is more special than everyone else in the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s very simple. Those who obey the law have nothing to worry about. If OSSE asks questions, you should be able to answer them easily. Investigations are for everyone’s benefit.

But if someone in fact has been committing residency fraud, they deserve a prison sentence and to pay full restituon.

correction...if you have nothing to hide and you can afford a layer.

Why would you need to hire a lawyer to show paystubs, utility bills, or other basic information to show residency --- if you actually live where you are supposed to.

Helloooooooooooooo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are sick to follow families around to investigate residency fraud for grade/middle/high school. Good Lord. Everyone who uses public school is freeloading to some extent...your taxes don't cover the full cost of your kids' educations. Should everyone be charged their full portion and should people who pay local taxes supporting these schools get refunds if they don't use them?

Listen, I don't agree with sending kids out of district when it is not permitted, but I hardly think it is a serious crime. Where we should be focusing our energies, money, and time is in making schools better everywhere by investing in top quality teachers (pay the good ones double) and getting rid of unions.

OP - It is awful anyone did this to you.

Please tell me you don't believe that. That's a ridiculous comparison.

We live in a culture of entitlement, dont be surprised if PP actually believes that.

Fifty years from now the US will be a little country and China the worldwide superpower, and we'll wonder how it all happened.

Well...

[Anonymous]

If one isn't paying the full cost of the services one is receiving then one is freeloading. Most people do freeload in any given community in one way or another. Some gratitude is in order for most people. In a good society we should seek to help one another,, not hunt down our fellow citizens.

People who live in glass houses.....it applies here in so many ways.

[Anonymous]

I often go other places after pick up, anyone following me would be sorely disappointed. I can’t imagine what you would tell your kid while tailing someone “We’ll be home later honey, I’m making sure this kid lives where they are supposed to”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s very simple. Those who obey the law have nothing to worry about. If OSSE asks questions, you should be able to answer them easily. Investigations are for everyone’s benefit.

But if someone in fact has been committing residency fraud, they deserve a prison sentence and to pay full restituon.

correction...if you have nothing to hide and you can afford a layer.

Why would you need to hire a lawyer to show paystubs, utility bills, or other basic information to show residency --- if you actually live where you are supposed to.

Helloooooooooooooo

I can't tell if you agree with me or are (somehow) trying to mock my response.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's another thing to be considered:

Kids in foster care have the right to continue attending school at their usual school even if placed outside their attendance area.

Schools cannot deny enrollment to homeless students, and a student who becomes homeless and is temporarily staying outside the attendance area is entitled to remain in the school.

And if a kid is in foster care or is homeless, it's nobody's business.

Exactly.

So OP's kids are in neither of those categories.

OP simply feels entitled to move around as she pleases, including using living in random airbnbs and renting MD cars and having absolutely no one question her, because, hey, she is more special than everyone else in the waitlist.

The posts in this thread are really disappointing. The nearly complete lack of compassion being demonstrated is incredible. Do you think the OP wanted to move out of her home? Do you think she was taking some sort of vacation? Entitlement is not being forced to flee your home and then becoming the object of gossip and innuendo. Entitlement is being able to live with such little apathy that you believe someone in that situation might think of themselves as "special".

[Anonymous]

What hurt was caused?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's another thing to be considered:

Kids in foster care have the right to continue attending school at their usual school even if placed outside their attendance area.

Schools cannot deny enrollment to homeless students, and a student who becomes homeless and is temporarily staying outside the attendance area is entitled to remain in the school.

And if a kid is in foster care or is homeless, it's nobody's business.

Exactly.

So OP's kids are in neither of those categories.

OP simply feels entitled to move around as she pleases, including using living in random airbnbs and renting MD cars and having absolutely no one question her, because, hey, she is more special than everyone else in the waitlist.

The posts in this thread are really disappointing. The nearly complete lack of compassion being demonstrated is incredible. Do you think the OP wanted to move out of her home? Do you think she was taking some sort of vacation? Entitlement is not being forced to flee your home and then becoming the object of gossip and innuendo. Entitlement is being able to live with such little apathy that you believe someone in that situation might think of themselves as "special".

Many people take issue with OP's conclusion that, based on what happened to her, people shouldn't report suspected residency cheaters. That doesn't remotely follow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s very simple. Those who obey the law have nothing to worry about. If OSSE asks questions, you should be able to answer them easily. Investigations are for everyone’s benefit.

But if someone in fact has been committing residency fraud, they deserve a prison sentence and to pay full restituon.

correction...if you have nothing to hide and you can afford a layer.

Why would you need to hire a lawyer to show paystubs, utility bills, or other basic information to show residency --- if you actually live where you are supposed to.

Helloooooooooooooo

I can't tell if you agree with me or are (somehow) trying to mock my response.

I agree with you. It's so obvious, I couldn't resist the Hellooooo. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s very simple. Those who obey the law have nothing to worry about. If OSSE asks questions, you should be able to answer them easily. Investigations are for everyone’s benefit.

But if someone in fact has been committing residency fraud, they deserve a prison sentence and to pay full restituon.

correction...if you have nothing to hide and you can afford a layer.

Why would you need to hire a lawyer to show paystubs, utility bills, or other basic information to show residency --- if you actually live where you are supposed to.

Helloooooooooooooo

I can't tell if you agree with me or are (somehow) trying to mock my response.

I agree with you. It's so obvious, I couldn't resist the Hellooooo. Sorry.

No need to be sorry - just wasn't sure.

[Anonymous]

Why do people think you can’t rent month to month on Airbnb (you can) or that it is too expensive? The prices have a big range. I don’t see what is hard to believe in OP’s story.

What isn’t stressful about being accused of something you didn’t do? I think it hurts more when you are innocent and the desire to clear your name is distressing. Not to mention it’s piled on to the other issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What hurt was caused?

Exactly!!!!!

No hurt was caused.

OP did something quite strange, she was reported, and she simply proved she had done nothing wrong.

Those are the facts.

Now, facts are boring, so let's are the drama....

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Many people take issue with OP's conclusion that, based on what happened to her, people shouldn't report suspected residency cheaters. That doesn't remotely follow.

That wasn't the OP's conclusion. The OP's conclusion was, "Before reporting suspected parents, please consider the hurt you may cause to those who truly don’t deserve it."

But, since "considering the hurt you may cause" seems to be an alien concept to many posters in this thread, I am not surprised that this created confusion. The OP is saying that before you report someone, you better be damn sure they are guilty because you are potentially going to unnecessarily cause them hurt. People who are struggling with difficult situations don't need one more kick while they are down, even if they are later able to prove they didn't deserve the kick.