Reporting a family in school outside of their neighborhood...
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Anonymous
Seriously, mid your own business. It's busybodies like you who give, rightfully, the suburbs a bad name. |
Anonymous
| There were a couple of families who remained at our neighborhood school after they moved. I am absolutely certain that they did not lie to the administration. They managed to pupil place. I do not know the circumstances, but it was no secret to anyone that they had moved. They did this for several years. |
Anonymous
Our Principal continually sends notices for parents to report. They have a full-time employee devoted to residency fraud. We are at a N Arlington school and the cheaters mean bigger classes and less resources. Report them. |
Anonymous
They aren't in DC because there are no elementary school magnets. In MoCo COSA is automatically granted until the end of the year, and routinely granted for kids with one year left or siblings, and kids are allowed to ride buses not their own that have space. So, there would be no violation in MoCo. I don't know VA law. |
Anonymous
| Agree that if they show up in Sept, report them. Are you sure they're not entitled to stay at the magnet once they are already enrolled? |
Anonymous
| We were in a similar situation, but not quite. In our case, we were in an overcrowded school that was not allowing pupil placement. Our house had a fire, and we were placed in temporary housing (3-6 months). Temporary housing was not in the district. Within two days of the fire, someone reported us as having moved. The principle called us, I explained. No problem. (DD was in the 5th grade; in the 6th grade, we were back in our house). |
Anonymous
| Op again -- I should have said more...so I basically know that the mom targeted our neighborhood specifically because it is close to Metro (they don't have a car) and because the bus for the school has a stop in our neighborhood (which is specifically for magnet kids) so they should not be on the bus to be begin with. She wanted her kids to stay at the former school because they like the school and so they could stay with their friends. BTW, the schools are the same (on paper, demo's, test scores) and her I"m not trying to be a hater -- I know it sounds like it -- and to be honest, if my kids weren't in this magnet, I might try to find a way to work them into a better neighboring school. BUT the influences on my kids aren't great. Again, you'll say, that's life and it is. But we've got a few years left of this and I'm less than inclined to let it slide if it's knowingly breaking the rules. Sorry. Not sorry. |
Anonymous
| We had a neighbor do this for several months at the beginning of the year. They had lived in our development last year, and she told me she was unhappy with the school where they were moving. One day they just stopped showing up at the bus stop. I have a feeling they were caught. We are in FCPS. |
Anonymous
| I would just casually ask the school about it. They can follow up if they want too. My school has list of how many people at each stop, so maybe your school has the same thing. Easier to track if only few of them at your stop. |
Anonymous
Go ahead and call it in now. They will get caught now or later. It's better on the children if it's now. The rules are for everyone. |
Anonymous
Setting aside any problems with these specific kids re: your own kids -- I'd still report this. It's so close to the end of the school year that I wouldn't do it right now (the school will be swamped with year-end administrative and testing stuff anyway) but I'd wait until kids were gone for the year, but while teachers/staff are still present for a few days, and at that point, report them. Possibly there's somewhere you can go online that will tell you where or how to report boundary violations. However you report it, please leave out the details about how you don't like these kids personally. That means nothing to the school or the administration and would only make it look as if you have a personal agenda -- which you do. Keep it brief and to the point: You know this family once lived in the correct zone for the school, they have moved (give the new address) and the school might want to check whether the family is giving its old, in-zone address as its residence. If there are other reasons these kids ARE allowed to be at this school, which others have noted in other posts, you likely may never be told what those are; schools are tight-lipped about giving out information so do not expect to hear back about it if there's a reason. You are right to report this. Families that send their kids to schools that are not their assigned schools are breaking the rules and sucking up resources. For special programs etc. it's fine for kids to be at a school that's not in-boundary, and that gets accounted for in planning for resources etc. Otherwise, parents are just gaming the system. Keeping kids with their friends is not a reason to break the rules. |
Anonymous
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so- these are your current neighbors. Your kids go to the same school- but your kids are in the magnet program, and her kids are in the 'regular' program. Her kids previously were in the zone for the regular program.
What you don't like about this situation is that her kids are riding the bus with your kids. You think the bus should be exclusively for those qualified for the magnet, and her kids are regular kids that are sneaking on the bus? I think there is an excellent chance that this is, in fact, allowed. The kids are not causing the creation of a new bus stop- they are using an existing bus stop. Their is room on the bus. They are out of bounds, but still in the same county- which is typically reason to allow a pupil transfer. |
Anonymous
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I think I would leave it alone and not assume things about these people. Maybe over the summer these kids will meet other kids in the neighborhood and WANT to go to the regular school.
Either way, it is really not about you Op. You don't get to decide who rides the bus or who is allowed to go to that school. If you don't like the influence on your kids you have all summer to distance yourself from them. These kids did attend that school and they do have friends at that school. I think it would be crummy to try to ban them from this Magnet Kid bus at this point in the year. Tell your kids to politely steer clear of them. |
Anonymous
They "targeted" your neighborhood because it is close to the metro? That's a pretty common reason to choose a neighborhood; I don't think they were "targeting" you. You are taking this way too personally. MYOB. |
Anonymous
Nazi Germany's, Stasi Germany, cultural revolution China, Obama Deporter-in-Chief's America. |