Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you know they didnt get in from a feeder? A bunch of Deal (and previous Hardy) feeders were pretty easy to get into for about five years. Some still are.

They entered the school from a private school.

[Anonymous]

OP, I hope someone is watching YOU too, you old busybody.

[Anonymous]

For the past two years, I have wanted to report a situation where families were def benefitting by breaking a rule regarding eligibility of students to play on a team at a school they did not attend. Other kids (and no, not mine) at the school with the team didn’t make the team because of it. The parents were so proud of themselves.

But I couldn’t do that to the kids. Even though they also knew they were breaking the rule.

[Anonymous]

Pretty sure you’d just report it to the school, as they’re the ones verifying addresses on entry (whether that’s in-bounds or lottery or whatever). But as others have said, pretty sure they’re not going to take this seriously especially if the kid/family are DC residents. I’m showing my age, but they couldn’t even get rid of that ridiculous Takoma family with the Capitol Hill/Brent rental - even once viral with the contested treehouse. That was fun!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I hope someone is watching YOU too, you old busybody.

+1 - A lot of energy wasted on something that doesn’t really affect you and your family. Get a hobby! Best case, this makes you feel slightly superior for 2 minutes. Then you think of how many others there probably are doing the same thing! LOL. But yay - you got one!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I hope someone is watching YOU too, you old busybody.

+1 - A lot of energy wasted on something that doesn’t really affect you and your family. Get a hobby! Best case, this makes you feel slightly superior for 2 minutes. Then you think of how many others there probably are doing the same thing! LOL. But yay - you got one!

lol grown adults stealing from someone’s kid.

[Anonymous]

We attend a school (in the fancy part of town) out of boundary through the lottery and I always wonder if any parents try to report us. I actually kept our myschooldc emails I’m so paranoid of nutty people like you, op.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure you’d just report it to the school, as they’re the ones verifying addresses on entry (whether that’s in-bounds or lottery or whatever). But as others have said, pretty sure they’re not going to take this seriously especially if the kid/family are DC residents. I’m showing my age, but they couldn’t even get rid of that ridiculous Takoma family with the Capitol Hill/Brent rental - even once viral with the contested treehouse. That was fun!

That family doesn't live in Takoma. They live on Capitol Hill but IB for a different school. (One that is now sufficiently popular that they may not have needed the fraud, but I guess felt they did at the time.) Nonetheless I agree that it's crazy they admit it's not their principal residence in all the treehouse paperwork/website material yet claimed it for school purposes.

[Anonymous]

Report it to the school. They are the ones that assess the enrollment paperwork.

(and yes it is fraud - it’s lying about your address to get a government benefit.)

[Anonymous]

Whenever this type of thread comes up, most reasonable people express sympathy for the kids involved and prefer to place their best interests above that of the scheming parents.
And then the inevitable retort on the part of the OP and co is that all these posters must be immoral and probably commit fraud themselves. This is so predictable.

OP, I really hope that someone calls you out when you do something the least bit wrong. Busybodies like you don't even realize that you hold others to standards that you might not hold for yourself. No one is perfect. Everyone breaks the rules in different ways. You are the type of person who will always find excuses for your own rule-breaking, but never excuse it in others.

[Anonymous]

OP here... I'm finding this all highly entertaining that I've gotten so many of you so worked up yet you're worried about the energy I'm wasting on this. To the person saving their MySchoolDC emails worried about "people like me"... my child also attends an out-of-boundary school "in the fancy part of town" - a spot that earned through the lottery as well. I am well aware that there are perfectly legitimate ways to attend a school outside of your boundary school. What I didn't like most about how this family handled things was the child and family walked around loudly telling everyone that they won a lottery spot to Jackson Reed, as if the data on whether that has happened at that school isn't publicly available to all. I know plenty of folks who have gamed the system, never thinking that I needed to report a thing, as I don't have the holier-than-thou attitude that you all think I do. It was this particular situation and this family's boldness that made me want to speak up. And to an early poster who asked if I want them to see this... well, I highly doubt they're on this forum, but yes I would definitely love them to know that they've spent years telling the same boldface lie but they didn't fool everyone.

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm on your side. I don't know how you report it or if it will do any good if you do, but I agree with you that it's not okay.

I don't understand why people are so blasé about rule breaking. I guess a lot of people bend rules for their own purposes.

I don't personally believe the child is benefitting from the situation if they are lying to the school -- this puts their kid in a bad situation where they are either being asked to lie or potentially their parents are lying to them. That doesn't sound good to me.

[Anonymous]

I left DC for 8 years before returning last year and I guess I missed the whole treehouse-as-residence drama. Fill me in!

[Anonymous]

This is pathetic. A pox on your house!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure you’d just report it to the school, as they’re the ones verifying addresses on entry (whether that’s in-bounds or lottery or whatever). But as others have said, pretty sure they’re not going to take this seriously especially if the kid/family are DC residents. I’m showing my age, but they couldn’t even get rid of that ridiculous Takoma family with the Capitol Hill/Brent rental - even once viral with the contested treehouse. That was fun!

That family doesn't live in Takoma. They live on Capitol Hill but IB for a different school. (One that is now sufficiently popular that they may not have needed the fraud, but I guess felt they did at the time.) Nonetheless I agree that it's crazy they admit it's not their principal residence in all the treehouse paperwork/website material yet claimed it for school purposes.

Ahhh yes, thank you! As noted above, showing my age, which apparently now includes a hint of memory loss, ha. I thought when their Craigslist rental post went up on Popville lambasting all of the sketchy conditions (enter only though a back door requiring a stepstool, you’re only allowed one suitcase of personal items despite being a full-time resident, expect landlords to come over often and help themselves to your food…) AND with a former renter commenting on the post about how awful they were and that it was for boundary fraud, it would solve it. Nope. Good times.