Moving - what if I just don’t update my address?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just registered my kid for winter sports in MCPS and they automatically checked that our address is in bounds for that school.

My kid attends a school that we don’t live in bounds for. I just registered her for Indoor Track and it just let me say that I was ‘in bounds’.

[Anonymous]

OP here. It’s the same cluster for MS / HS (in the DCC). Just a potentially different ES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. It’s the same cluster for MS / HS (in the DCC). Just a potentially different ES.

I think if you don't update your address you can stay at the current ES, and it's unlikely, but not out the question, to be a problem.

[Anonymous]

I think it is unlikely that anyone will check, but someone may rat you out.

I live in a neighborhood where the schools used to have one zoning, but now have another. Because of the debate over the new boundaries, everyone knows which streets go to which schools.

Since one of the schools is perceived as having better programs/amenities, but is also extremely overcrowded, people will absolutely inform MCPS if folks move.

So, I guess the question is: how much do you trust your neighbors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Theoretically speaking, what if I were to move to an adjacent neighborhood in MoCo, one literally two blocks from where I live now but in another school’s boundary. I know technically, my kids switch schools. What if I don’t update my address?

I think you are living a dishonest life and it will get you in the end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it is unlikely that anyone will check, but someone may rat you out.

I live in a neighborhood where the schools used to have one zoning, but now have another. Because of the debate over the new boundaries, everyone knows which streets go to which schools.

Since one of the schools is perceived as having better programs/amenities, but is also extremely overcrowded, people will absolutely inform MCPS if folks move.

So, I guess the question is: how much do you trust your neighbors?

Maybe. But even if someone does inform the school, it is highly unlikely that the school goes after the OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it is unlikely that anyone will check, but someone may rat you out.

I live in a neighborhood where the schools used to have one zoning, but now have another. Because of the debate over the new boundaries, everyone knows which streets go to which schools.

Since one of the schools is perceived as having better programs/amenities, but is also extremely overcrowded, people will absolutely inform MCPS if folks move.

So, I guess the question is: how much do you trust your neighbors?

Maybe. But even if someone does inform the school, it is highly unlikely that the school goes after the OP.

I'd report them, and if the school did nothing, I'd report it to the CO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. It’s the same cluster for MS / HS (in the DCC). Just a potentially different ES.

It is quite likely your principal would let you finish out ES--they have discretion in these kinds of things. I also know people who never updated their address when they moved, and nobody checked.

[Anonymous]

Can't you apply for a transfer or something similar? To do this above board?

[Anonymous]

How old are your kids? If you only need to hold up this charade for 1-2 years, maybe. But if you have a kid in K, 1 or 2, I'd just transfer schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it is unlikely that anyone will check, but someone may rat you out.

I live in a neighborhood where the schools used to have one zoning, but now have another. Because of the debate over the new boundaries, everyone knows which streets go to which schools.

Since one of the schools is perceived as having better programs/amenities, but is also extremely overcrowded, people will absolutely inform MCPS if folks move.

So, I guess the question is: how much do you trust your neighbors?

The funny thing is that the new home is actually aligned to a significantly better school (great schools 8, not that that’s the end all be all). Kids current school is a 5. But my kids are happy there and doing really well. We’ve tried to find housing in the same neighborhood without any luck. The neighborhood next to us - the one with a “better” ES has more housing open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old are your kids? If you only need to hold up this charade for 1-2 years, maybe. But if you have a kid in K, 1 or 2, I'd just transfer schools.

Kids are in 3rd grade. If they were younger, I’d move them. Lots of trauma this last year - divorce and then death by suicide. It’s one thing to have to move home (not what I want but I have to move), it’s another to switch their schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are your kids? If you only need to hold up this charade for 1-2 years, maybe. But if you have a kid in K, 1 or 2, I'd just transfer schools.

Kids are in 3rd grade. If they were younger, I’d move them. Lots of trauma this last year - divorce and then death by suicide. It’s one thing to have to move home (not what I want but I have to move), it’s another to switch their schools.

under the circumstances you might want to just apply for a COSA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How old are your kids? If you only need to hold up this charade for 1-2 years, maybe. But if you have a kid in K, 1 or 2, I'd just transfer schools.

Kids are in 3rd grade. If they were younger, I’d move them. Lots of trauma this last year - divorce and then death by suicide. It’s one thing to have to move home (not what I want but I have to move), it’s another to switch their schools.

under the circumstances you might want to just apply for a COSA

That’s the thing, it could get rejected. And if it is, then we are flagged.

[Anonymous]

I think you are grandfathered for the rest of this year as a general rule. Beyond this year it would be the COSA. Our former ES principal booted kids who moved out of bounds because of overcrowding.