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Anonymous
Congrats; you're not cheating DCPS for $10K/yr, you're just cheating DC DMV for a few hundred a year. You're still depriving DC of much-needed revenue. |
Anonymous
Only 1 investigator? This is the problem! |
Anonymous
So, that's the problem!? |
Anonymous
| This is old news. I've seen a number of threads on this topic. I am a MD resident, my kid attends a DCPS school. We do it LEGALLY. We pay the stated non-resident tuition and do not use any DC address to game the system. |
Anonymous
Wow, really? Isn't the law that you can only do that if there are no DC residents on the waiting list for that school? All the good public schools (DCPS and charter) have waitlists. The only ones that don't are just awful! |
Anonymous
Not necessarily true. When some of the charters were starting up, there were spaces available. For example, I believe Latin was not at capacity its first year. Once you are in, you are grandfathered and able to continue through. I am not sure if "Founders" are non-residents if they are able to get in and pay tuition. However, this is realy the exception to the excepton. |
Anonymous
| Military families also keep the plates from their "home state" as they are assigned to different bases. We have VA plates, but live in DC. We have a reciprocity sticker from DC to show that we are allowed to maintain our VA plates. |
Anonymous
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"School officials say it's not uncommon for out-of-state students to attend D.C. schools because the city has all-day kindergarten and pre-k programs."
Which officials are these exactly and how exactly do they define not uncommon? If Marylanders (PG County aka Ward 9) are cheating for money reasons, are people scoping out the bus and metro stops, too? |
Anonymous
| Just out of curiousity, where do these MD kids live who are going to DC schools? I live in MoCo precisely because I didn't want to send my kids to DC schools; are there really parts of MD where the schools are so bad that these DC elementaries are a more attractive option? |
Anonymous
Maryland doesn't have all day early childhood education and many people can't afford or want to save money. This is probably the motivation to use DCPS. However, I have talked to people in PG County who think the schools are bad in that area, so that could be the other reason. There are probably DC kids in MoCo county schools. |
Anonymous
| Ward 9 = PG County. Some bad schools and other factor is some MD residents find having a school near their work is more convenient ie, Thomson. |
Anonymous
| I just really cannot believe this is the problem that several hysterical posters make it out to be. Between separate households from divorce or unmarried parents; nannies, caregivers, and other relatives doing pickup; grandfathered in residents from other states paying tuition; military or other legal temporary residents - how much is this REALLY and TRULY an issue? Is there any hard and fast data? and I am not at all interested in your anecdotes of the situation you may be observing (which tells you nothing about the legality of what you think you may be witnessing). Who are these school officials who say it's not uncommon? Does DCPS perceive this as a problem? |
Anonymous
Like! |
Anonymous
Agree and well said, PP. This topic comes up every so often with some hysterical poster, and the same good points are always calmly made. Yawn. |