Attorney General files suit against 16 people for school residency fraud

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a DC resident, I would like to enroll at a VA or MD school of my choice. For free. I am happy to drive ?

Old news
So many DC kids are enrolled in MD schools for free and having better education

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The 630000 people in the District can't subsidize the millions in Maryland. If PG schools aren't good, the 1,000,000 people in Montgomery County can subsidize them . That isn't the job of the District. The District needs to be supporting its own low income families

Who in their right mind would send their kids to DCPS, except for convenience and free day care?

[Anonymous]

^ We would.

The largest class in our kid's DCPS has 24 kids (only a handful of them poor/behind) and two teachers. Friends who moved to MoCo mainly for the schools report that their children have as many as 30 kids in a class and just one teacher.

Our school's PTA raises close to 400K each year and spends it as the parents and teachers involved please. In MoCo, there are many restrictions on how PTA funds can be spent.

Call us nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The 630000 people in the District can't subsidize the millions in Maryland. If PG schools aren't good, the 1,000,000 people in Montgomery County can subsidize them . That isn't the job of the District. The District needs to be supporting its own low income families

Who in their right mind would send their kids to DCPS, except for convenience and free day care?

Boy, you have outdated views of DC. There are plenty of people (wealthy included) who send their kids to DCPS. I’m embarrassed for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The 630000 people in the District can't subsidize the millions in Maryland. If PG schools aren't good, the 1,000,000 people in Montgomery County can subsidize them . That isn't the job of the District. The District needs to be supporting its own low income families

Who in their right mind would send their kids to DCPS, except for convenience and free day care?

Boy, you have outdated views of DC. There are plenty of people (wealthy included) who send their kids to DCPS. I’m embarrassed for you.

I would, I'd buy a very nice house in PG county in that case.

[Anonymous]

Maybe you missed the fact that one of the couples who are defendants in this case were sending their son to Banneker HS. Read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker_Academic_High_School
and then come back and tell me that nobody in his right mind would send a kid to that high school.

This one really burns me up because it's really unfair to take a place in a high school like this away from a DC resident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ We would.

The largest class in our kid's DCPS has 24 kids (only a handful of them poor/behind) and two teachers. Friends who moved to MoCo mainly for the schools report that their children have as many as 30 kids in a class and just one teacher.

Our school's PTA raises close to 400K each year and spends it as the parents and teachers involved please. In MoCo, there are many restrictions on how PTA funds can be spent.

Call us nuts.

You’re definitely nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you missed the fact that one of the couples who are defendants in this case were sending their son to Banneker HS. Read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker_Academic_High_School
and then come back and tell me that nobody in his right mind would send a kid to that high school.

This one really burns me up because it's really unfair to take a place in a high school like this away from a DC resident.

Like I said...Convenience

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you missed the fact that one of the couples who are defendants in this case were sending their son to Banneker HS. Read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker_Academic_High_School
and then come back and tell me that nobody in his right mind would send a kid to that high school.

This one really burns me up because it's really unfair to take a place in a high school like this away from a DC resident.

Like I said...Convenience

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ We would.

The largest class in our kid's DCPS has 24 kids (only a handful of them poor/behind) and two teachers. Friends who moved to MoCo mainly for the schools report that their children have as many as 30 kids in a class and just one teacher.

Our school's PTA raises close to 400K each year and spends it as the parents and teachers involved please. In MoCo, there are many restrictions on how PTA funds can be spent.

Call us nuts.

You’re definitely nuts.

Did you know white students in DC perform higher than any other state in the nation? Maybe you should be nuts too.

[Anonymous]

IB for Coolidge, on border with TP. Obvi, spend a ton in sales tax in TP. I assume if I rent a one bedroom across the street in MoCo, I can just send DD to Blair, and just spend 4 nights a week in TP, right? Would lose DC homestead deduction, but oh well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ We would.

The largest class in our kid's DCPS has 24 kids (only a handful of them poor/behind) and two teachers. Friends who moved to MoCo mainly for the schools report that their children have as many as 30 kids in a class and just one teacher.

Our school's PTA raises close to 400K each year and spends it as the parents and teachers involved please. In MoCo, there are many restrictions on how PTA funds can be spent.

Call us nuts.

You’re definitely nuts.

Why slam this PP in knee-jerk fashion? You've had kids enrolled one of the top 10 or 15 DCPS programs? S/he makes a fair point, at least for ES. We have close friends who've moved from Upper NW or Capitol Hill to Fairfax, Arlington or MoCo for the schools and didn't find greener pastures. They found bigger ES classes, less favorable teacher: student ratios and more crowded schools on top of longer and more hassle-filled commutes to their downtown offices. Our own DCPS school is actually less diverse than most in the outer burbs, if that's a selling point for the likes of you - the student body is more than 3/4 white/high SES. Moreover, residency fraud is rare at our school -it's too small for fraud to go unnoticed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ We would.

The largest class in our kid's DCPS has 24 kids (only a handful of them poor/behind) and two teachers. Friends who moved to MoCo mainly for the schools report that their children have as many as 30 kids in a class and just one teacher.

Our school's PTA raises close to 400K each year and spends it as the parents and teachers involved please. In MoCo, there are many restrictions on how PTA funds can be spent.

Call us nuts.

You’re definitely nuts.

And you are definitely at least 20 years out of date, which is a whole lot worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ We would.

The largest class in our kid's DCPS has 24 kids (only a handful of them poor/behind) and two teachers. Friends who moved to MoCo mainly for the schools report that their children have as many as 30 kids in a class and just one teacher.

Our school's PTA raises close to 400K each year and spends it as the parents and teachers involved please. In MoCo, there are many restrictions on how PTA funds can be spent.

Call us nuts.

You’re definitely nuts.

Did you know white students in DC perform higher than any other state in the nation? Maybe you should be nuts too.

In what? ... Delusion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ We would.

The largest class in our kid's DCPS has 24 kids (only a handful of them poor/behind) and two teachers. Friends who moved to MoCo mainly for the schools report that their children have as many as 30 kids in a class and just one teacher.

Our school's PTA raises close to 400K each year and spends it as the parents and teachers involved please. In MoCo, there are many restrictions on how PTA funds can be spent.

Call us nuts.

You’re definitely nuts.

Did you know white students in DC perform higher than any other state in the nation? Maybe you should be nuts too.

In what? ... Delusion?

Feel free to find one state where white students score higher than. in DC.

PS- I am black.

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Reading: https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/stt2017/20180394.aspx

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