First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

Why do you all have to be so mean to each other? Some of the stuff on here made me shiver with its total meanness. Jesus Christ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is why I think it is just the one sad little poster, battling the demons of her depressing non-career, her bored spouse, her average children, and her inability to find joy in any of that.

Wow this is awful. You are above posting stuff like this. Come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. Sad is sad. There are no residency cheaters here. Just some verysad, shriveled women who are not very happy with their lives and looking for someone to blame.

Yup. The lines of Maryland plate vehicles outside DC public schools and charters every day are just an illusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Sad is sad. There are no residency cheaters here. Just some verysad, shriveled women who are not very happy with their lives and looking for someone to blame.

Yup. The lines of Maryland plate vehicles outside DC public schools and charters every day are just an illusion.

More "virtual" Maryland cars in the pickup line outside Hearst today.

[Anonymous]

At my school, it seems that many of the PK-lower grades are walking, scootering in to school in the morning, and plenty of older kids are hopping out of often-Maryland plated cars.

So, what are some strategies that we can do about this? Are there concrete recommendations that have worked in other jurisdictions? Surely DC can't be alone in facing this problem. Strategies, people, please!

[Anonymous]

It comes down to the principals. If the principals cared and ensured compliance, this stuff would be kept to a minimum. But it's not, because principals get funding on a per head count, regardless of residency..... Also, it's tone at the top: I doubt Henderson gives a hoot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It comes down to the principals. If the principals cared and ensured compliance, this stuff would be kept to a minimum. But it's not, because principals get funding on a per head count, regardless of residency..... Also, it's tone at the top: I doubt Henderson gives a hoot.

I could see where some unscrupulous principals in schools that otherwise never fill might have an incentive to maximize students regardless of whether they are fraudsters. But every Maryland student at Hearst or Eaton or a desirable charter school is taking a spot from a deserving DC student who wasn't successful in the lottery. One way to reduce residency fraud is to hold principals more accountable for it, when their compensation is reviewed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It comes down to the principals. If the principals cared and ensured compliance, this stuff would be kept to a minimum. But it's not, because principals get funding on a per head count, regardless of residency..... Also, it's tone at the top: I doubt Henderson gives a hoot.

I could see where some unscrupulous principals in schools that otherwise never fill might have an incentive to maximize students regardless of whether they are fraudsters. But every Maryland student at Hearst or Eaton or a desirable charter school is taking a spot from a deserving DC student who wasn't successful in the lottery. One way to reduce residency fraud is to hold principals more accountable for it, when their compensation is reviewed.

Agree, but the problem is tone at the top. Evidently Henderson doesn't care. If she did, this would have been a non-issue a long time ago.

[Anonymous]

Genuine question here. Our charter was audited and all residency documents were found to be 100% compliant. Yet I know of at least 2 students who live in maryland. So is it possible that the real issue is that people are falsifying paperwork so there isn't a way to investigate or prove this, hence lack of action by principal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Genuine question here. Our charter was audited and all residency documents were found to be 100% compliant. Yet I know of at least 2 students who live in maryland. So is it possible that the real issue is that people are falsifying paperwork so there isn't a way to investigate or prove this, hence lack of action by principal?

Yep. This.

If you have evidence that people are living out of the city you should report to OSSE who can do a more in depth investigation if they have probable cause. There's a form on their website.

[Anonymous]

How do you know that? Because I know at least three families with one parent in Maryland, and the other, tax-paying, income-providing parent in DC. I also know a family relocated to Maryland temporarily because they're homeless and that's where they got placement.

Not being a sociopathic asshole, I don't have a problem with any of this. I also have this strange attitude... The one I keep trying to articulate here... About it being none of my fucking business. If the school clears them, they've been cleared.

Of course, I am not a sad, pg-obsessed whiny shriveled woman either.

[Anonymous]

Granted I didn't read through all 79 pages here, but did anyone note that the MD residents could be paying tuition like they're supposed to? My kids used to attend a DCPS school, I drove them in with my MD tags and had play dates galore...sometimes at our house in MD, other times in DC. Not everyone is cheating the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Granted I didn't read through all 79 pages here, but did anyone note that the MD residents could be paying tuition like they're supposed to? My kids used to attend a DCPS school, I drove them in with my MD tags and had play dates galore...sometimes at our house in MD, other times in DC. Not everyone is cheating the system.

Paying tuition is only allowed at any school that does NOT have any wait list of IB or OOB DC residents. So no, not legal at many of the schools mentioned on this thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Granted I didn't read through all 79 pages here, but did anyone note that the MD residents could be paying tuition like they're supposed to? My kids used to attend a DCPS school, I drove them in with my MD tags and had play dates galore...sometimes at our house in MD, other times in DC. Not everyone is cheating the system.

Very few pay tuition. My kids' DC elementary school had a number of students who arrived every day in Maryland cars. When I checked with the school, there were ZERO tuition paying students. There are legitimate cases of one parent living in MD or something, but the sheer volume points to the fact that there is serious and widespread residency scamming goin' on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is why I think it is just the one sad little poster, battling the demons of her depressing non-career, her bored spouse, her average children, and her inability to find joy in any of that.

+100!