Jackson-Reed home visits for eligibility verification

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also support this. You see the advice a lot on here "just rent an apartment IB for JR" to get your kid into a good HS. Now, if a family is actually moving IB for JR, totally fine. But there are definitely people who would try to just rent something tiny to get an IB address and then stay where they are, and that's fraud.

It's also long term not in anyone's interest. Spots at decent HSs are getting harder to come by, so what we need to do is make more decent high schools, which means discouraging people from using sketchy or fraudulent means to get into one of the handful of good ones.

The concern is with families living in VA or MD. That's what they're looking for.

I suspect also in DC

[Anonymous]

I fail to see any problem.
Open the front door and talk with them.
They're just doing their job--don't be an ass just to be difficult.

[Anonymous]

I’d contact a lawyer, this sounds sus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d contact a lawyer, this sounds sus.

It's literally in the published OSSE guidelines that schools can do that so good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d contact a lawyer, this sounds sus.

It's literally in the published OSSE guidelines that schools can do that so good luck.

+1 no problem if you want to use your money on something going nowhere

[Anonymous]

Have a senior at JR and this has never happened. But, they have asked for more and more documentation over the years - despite being in DCPS schools that we are zoned to for 12 years now. A few years ago they discovered a cop who didn't live in DC had his kid enrolled in DCPS for years. And, with all the chatter on this listserv about how to game the system and some of the kids we knew of at Deal, I am not surprised they are cracking down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also support this. You see the advice a lot on here "just rent an apartment IB for JR" to get your kid into a good HS. Now, if a family is actually moving IB for JR, totally fine. But there are definitely people who would try to just rent something tiny to get an IB address and then stay where they are, and that's fraud.

It's also long term not in anyone's interest. Spots at decent HSs are getting harder to come by, so what we need to do is make more decent high schools, which means discouraging people from using sketchy or fraudulent means to get into one of the handful of good ones.

The concern is with families living in VA or MD. That's what they're looking for.

I suspect also in DC

They are very explicit about what they investigate, which is if "a non-district resident is receiving District-funded public
education free of charge."

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/ResidencyInvestigation_18x24_posters.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also support this. You see the advice a lot on here "just rent an apartment IB for JR" to get your kid into a good HS. Now, if a family is actually moving IB for JR, totally fine. But there are definitely people who would try to just rent something tiny to get an IB address and then stay where they are, and that's fraud.

It's also long term not in anyone's interest. Spots at decent HSs are getting harder to come by, so what we need to do is make more decent high schools, which means discouraging people from using sketchy or fraudulent means to get into one of the handful of good ones.

The concern is with families living in VA or MD. That's what they're looking for.

I suspect also in DC

They are very explicit about what they investigate, which is if "a non-district resident is receiving District-funded public
education free of charge."

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/ResidencyInvestigation_18x24_posters.pdf

That’s the OSSE policy. OP didn’t say OSSE wanted a home visit, they said JR wanted a home visit. I know a lot of the staff at JR are tired of the overcrowding. This might be school initiated.

[Anonymous]

Every public school system can visit if they want. No big deal IF you have nothing to hide. Boundary and Residential fraud are different with Residential fraud carrying more severe penalities.

[Anonymous]

How is this a big deal at all?

Some of you sound nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is this a big deal at all?

Some of you sound nuts.

+1 if you live IB, not a big deal. You don’t have anything to hide.

If you don’t then yep, fraud. I’m just shocked how some people are just so desperate to want to stay in DC, do a horrible commute from EOTO for mediocre schools.

[Anonymous]

If the city was smart, they could also put in the manual that these families should pay back tuition for sending their kid to JR (OOB DC, MD, or VA resident) and fined x amount of money for residency fraud.

Rules are rules and there should be consequences if you break them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the city was smart, they could also put in the manual that these families should pay back tuition for sending their kid to JR (OOB DC, MD, or VA resident) and fined x amount of money for residency fraud.

Rules are rules and there should be consequences if you break them.

You can be fined for residency fraud. It happens. But it doesn't include being OOB because that's not how the law is written. It would have to be changed but I can't imagine that's anyone's priority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have a senior at JR and this has never happened. But, they have asked for more and more documentation over the years - despite being in DCPS schools that we are zoned to for 12 years now. A few years ago they discovered a cop who didn't live in DC had his kid enrolled in DCPS for years. And, with all the chatter on this listserv about how to game the system and some of the kids we knew of at Deal, I am not surprised they are cracking down.

Yup, more than one.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/478060.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the city was smart, they could also put in the manual that these families should pay back tuition for sending their kid to JR (OOB DC, MD, or VA resident) and fined x amount of money for residency fraud.

Rules are rules and there should be consequences if you break them.

You can be fined for residency fraud. It happens. But it doesn't include being OOB because that's not how the law is written. It would have to be changed but I can't imagine that's anyone's priority.

You don’t need a law. Put in the handbook the above for OOB DC residents and MD and VA residents.