A day like today is the perfect day to gather info on residency cheats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me the allure of DCPS schools over neighboring jurisdiction schools? Are DCPS schools that much better?

Free pre-k

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why's school so empty? Well ward 9 couldn't make the drive.
Just look at all the charters that closed.

Great point, at least for neighborhood schools. We had no trouble walking 3 blocks.

Usually they come early for before-school care. I worked outside the polls on Election Day in November, starting before 7 a.m., next to the curb at a WOTP school that is also a polling place. Nearly all of the early drop-offs came in Maryland cars. It was very noticeable.

I realize that this won't cover all situations, but the almost 2,000 children who are legal wards of the District can be placed with a foster home within 50 miles of DC or with a family member who lives in MD, Because the kids are DC residents under the law they are entitled to go to school in DC wherever DCPS can place them. Some of these kids are in NW schools. Please be kind, although you won't know who they are, these kids have enough to worry about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are my thoughts exactly.

My DD teacher was happy she wouldn't have a full house today. She stated that a lot of families use public transportation.

This is for Pk3, so why some much use of public transporation if all the kids are IB?

First, you can live in DC and still be OOB. Second, you can't conceive of living too far from the school to walk with a 3 year old, yet not driving to school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why's school so empty? Well ward 9 couldn't make the drive.
Just look at all the charters that closed.

Great point, at least for neighborhood schools. We had no trouble walking 3 blocks.

Usually they come early for before-school care. I worked outside the polls on Election Day in November, starting before 7 a.m., next to the curb at a WOTP school that is also a polling place. Nearly all of the early drop-offs came in Maryland cars. It was very noticeable.

I realize that this won't cover all situations, but the almost 2,000 children who are legal wards of the District can be placed with a foster home within 50 miles of DC or with a family member who lives in MD, Because the kids are DC residents under the law they are entitled to go to school in DC wherever DCPS can place them. Some of these kids are in NW schools. Please be kind, although you won't know who they are, these kids have enough to worry about.

This. OP has too much time on her hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why's school so empty? Well ward 9 couldn't make the drive.
Just look at all the charters that closed.

Great point, at least for neighborhood schools. We had no trouble walking 3 blocks.

Usually they come early for before-school care. I worked outside the polls on Election Day in November, starting before 7 a.m., next to the curb at a WOTP school that is also a polling place. Nearly all of the early drop-offs came in Maryland cars. It was very noticeable.

I realize that this won't cover all situations, but the almost 2,000 children who are legal wards of the District can be placed with a foster home within 50 miles of DC or with a family member who lives in MD, Because the kids are DC residents under the law they are entitled to go to school in DC wherever DCPS can place them. Some of these kids are in NW schools. Please be kind, although you won't know who they are, these kids have enough to worry about.

This. OP has too much time on her hands.

Always excuses: The MD cars must all be grandparents. Or caregivers. Or divorced parents. Or foster parents. But they are just to numerous to be just that. And then other incidents come up and get reported (Wilson forfeiting a championship game because of a longstanding player residing in MD, the kid who asked his teacher 'what ward is Landover in?", the kid who brought cocaine to DCPS elementary school and whose parents challenged DC legal action because they were actually PG residents, the mother who sued her son's DC charter school in PG court because they lived there). You realize that, if these are just the cases that get reported because of something else -- cocaine, a missed sports championship, improper sexual conduct at the charter -- then what about all the students beneath the radar?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are ALREADY in the school, which the cheaters gained access to, why would you care?

I don't have kids in DCPS but when people who don't live in the district take those spots away from district residents, many of those residents leave the district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shut up. Seriously. I am a DC resident with kids at a DCPS school, and I really don't understand why people obsess over this. It is a made-up problem.

I really don't understand why whenever this subject comes up there are always posters who try to bully other people into ending the conversation. Why so sensitive?

[Anonymous]

The people who make the observations should be the ones reporting it. Posting on DCUM does not help anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who make the observations should be the ones reporting it. Posting on DCUM does not help anyone.

Reporting residency cheaters is a lonely hobby. DCUM is our support group. :0

[Anonymous]

Not a cheater but didn't make it to school either. Cops blocked Cathedral Avenue which resulted in a back-up, and I wasn't going to walk my kid to school pushing baby in a stroller in this snow.

[Anonymous]

DH could not get DD to high school. DC resident. Just too slippery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shut up. Seriously. I am a DC resident with kids at a DCPS school, and I really don't understand why people obsess over this. It is a made-up problem.

I really don't understand why whenever this subject comes up there are always posters who try to bully other people into ending the conversation. Why so sensitive?

It may be that they either are fraudsters themselves or trying to protect someone they know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who make the observations should be the ones reporting it. Posting on DCUM does not help anyone.

It increases awareness of what is a District-wide and systemic problem and builds momentum for DCPS and the Council to devote more resources to ferreting out the cheaters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people who make the observations should be the ones reporting it. Posting on DCUM does not help anyone.

It increases awareness of what is a District-wide and systemic problem and builds momentum for DCPS and the Council to devote more resources to ferreting out the cheaters.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Last year wasn't Wilson disqualified from some football game due to residency fraud?

Everyone knows where the football players at Friendship Charter really live.

If you were to ask teachers at Duke Ellington if they knew of children from Maryland at school they would say yes.