DH and I are thinking about leasing an apartment just to get in a good schol district

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know someone who does this. The school likes to make home visits. It forces them to live an elaborate lie.

If you pay your DC taxes, acquire all the docs to get through a DCPS residency investigation and could survive a home visit (with pictures taken of a kid's bedroom) it's nobody's business if you do this. You don't need to teach your kids to lie; you could simply teach them not to talk about the apartment. Sounds like a huge and expensive hassle though.

Our school does home visits and took photos of our kids in their bedroom, but when they set it up, they emailed us to ask what address to come to. We only have the one address we live at, but I didn't get the impression that the teachers were double checking residency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guys an apartment runs 2,000 a month. With that kind of money, the OP has better options than rent an apartment. This is a troll post. If you had 2,000 a month, 24,000 a year, extra to spend to get your kid a good education, is there any way in hell this is the choice you'd make? No, you'd use that money to buy a house in bounds with it or you'd use it to go private. This is why you could actually do this and never worry about getting caught - because no one would do this so the documents provided are more than sufficient.

Yeah, the economically rational scam is to pretend your kids live with their cousins.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guys an apartment runs 2,000 a month. With that kind of money, the OP has better options than rent an apartment. This is a troll post. If you had 2,000 a month, 24,000 a year, extra to spend to get your kid a good education, is there any way in hell this is the choice you'd make? No, you'd use that money to buy a house in bounds with it or you'd use it to go private. This is why you could actually do this and never worry about getting caught - because no one would do this so the documents provided are more than sufficient.

People do this. Except 2-3 families usually split the rent, and each put their name on a different proving document (utility, lease, etc).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guys an apartment runs 2,000 a month. With that kind of money, the OP has better options than rent an apartment. This is a troll post. If you had 2,000 a month, 24,000 a year, extra to spend to get your kid a good education, is there any way in hell this is the choice you'd make? No, you'd use that money to buy a house in bounds with it or you'd use it to go private. This is why you could actually do this and never worry about getting caught - because no one would do this so the documents provided are more than sufficient.

NP. We like our house and don't want to move. Our child currently attends a private, but when there have been times when we were looking at different schools, we included public schools as an option with the idea that we'd rent an apartment to meet the residency requirements. If you like your home and your neighborhood and are just looking for different school options, moving doesn't make sense unless you absolutely have to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guys an apartment runs 2,000 a month. With that kind of money, the OP has better options than rent an apartment. This is a troll post. If you had 2,000 a month, 24,000 a year, extra to spend to get your kid a good education, is there any way in hell this is the choice you'd make? No, you'd use that money to buy a house in bounds with it or you'd use it to go private. This is why you could actually do this and never worry about getting caught - because no one would do this so the documents provided are more than sufficient.

NP. We like our house and don't want to move. Our child currently attends a private, but when there have been times when we were looking at different schools, we included public schools as an option with the idea that we'd rent an apartment to meet the residency requirements. If you like your home and your neighborhood and are just looking for different school options, moving doesn't make sense unless you absolutely have to.

you know that privates are equal or better to publics. The only reason to go to a good public rather than private is for the neighborhood feel or to save money, neither of which apply here. This can't be real.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guys an apartment runs 2,000 a month. With that kind of money, the OP has better options than rent an apartment. This is a troll post. If you had 2,000 a month, 24,000 a year, extra to spend to get your kid a good education, is there any way in hell this is the choice you'd make? No, you'd use that money to buy a house in bounds with it or you'd use it to go private. This is why you could actually do this and never worry about getting caught - because no one would do this so the documents provided are more than sufficient.

NP. We like our house and don't want to move. Our child currently attends a private, but when there have been times when we were looking at different schools, we included public schools as an option with the idea that we'd rent an apartment to meet the residency requirements. If you like your home and your neighborhood and are just looking for different school options, moving doesn't make sense unless you absolutely have to.

you know that privates are equal or better to publics. The only reason to go to a good public rather than private is for the neighborhood feel or to save money, neither of which apply here. This can't be real.

So far, the private has outweighed the public option for us, that is not true for everyone. However, the public offers a great orchestral music program which our private does not offer. The privates that do offer orchestral music programs are mostly out of the running for different reasons. If we had not found outside opportunities for orchestral music, it is possible we would have decided that the orchestral music program at the public school was sufficient to outweigh the negatives as we saw them. And not that it matters given the ridiculous sums of money we're talking about, but for us renting an apartment inbounds for our possible public school is cheaper than tuition at our private. Not by bunches, but we could save about five thousand dollars.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Guys an apartment runs 2,000 a month. With that kind of money, the OP has better options than rent an apartment. This is a troll post. If you had 2,000 a month, 24,000 a year, extra to spend to get your kid a good education, is there any way in hell this is the choice you'd make? No, you'd use that money to buy a house in bounds with it or you'd use it to go private. This is why you could actually do this and never worry about getting caught - because no one would do this so the documents provided are more than sufficient.

People do this. Except 2-3 families usually split the rent, and each put their name on a different proving document (utility, lease, etc).

I believe it, but this can't happen much. A group arrangement would lend itself easily to one or more parents spilling the beans and all being investigated. Also if DCPS hauled a particular family in, and they do drag parents in to their South Dakota Ave. residency fraud investigations office, those under investigation would have to show them multiple proving documents to clear the bar. Investigators want to see car registration, several years of tax returns, pay stubs, utilities bills, drives license and so forth. I know this because I was investigated when I was newly divorced at a JKLM. DCPS investigations aren't the total joke PPs like to claim.

[Anonymous]

You're this frightened of black people?

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Anonymous wrote:We wouldn't live there. I know you are technically not supposed to do this, but have people gotten caught? We can't afford to buy in our targeted district.

Yes some have been caught. Others haven't.

But you will be teaching your kid to lie. People will ask where you live so start practicing now.

+1 Do you realize how far you're going to have to involve your kid in this scam? Playdates, birthdays, 1st grade 'essays' about "my neighborhood" ?? Are you really prepared to constantly remind your kid that they have to pretend they live in boundary??

There was a famous column in the Post about (cross-border) residency fraud, in which during a lesson on DC history and civics, a boy in the classroom asked "Which ward is Landover in?" !!!

(The real answer might have been "Ward 9" aka PG.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're this frightened of black people?

SHHHHHHHH!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guys an apartment runs 2,000 a month. With that kind of money, the OP has better options than rent an apartment. This is a troll post. If you had 2,000 a month, 24,000 a year, extra to spend to get your kid a good education, is there any way in hell this is the choice you'd make? No, you'd use that money to buy a house in bounds with it or you'd use it to go private. This is why you could actually do this and never worry about getting caught - because no one would do this so the documents provided are more than sufficient.

Yeah, the economically rational scam is to pretend your kids live with their cousins.

Yes, or use the address of a condo that you rent out profitably.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like you could afford to buy, so if you settle on a school you should just do that so your kids can benefit from being part of the neighborhood and school community.

And you'll find you'll never fit in once people see your name is in the school directory as living in an apartment. I lived in a condo in the NW and saw this first hand. Couldn't get a playdate with the kids mine hit it off with in PK3. Moms perfectly nice to me, but they want to spend time with their own kind. They'd respond to my request with a friendly - "yes, we absolutely should do that" and then I'd hear them ten minutes later scheduling dates with other moms. One mom suggested I drop my pk3 off one afternoon so I could get things done (what?!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who does this. The school likes to make home visits. It forces them to live an elaborate lie.

If you pay your DC taxes, acquire all the docs to get through a DCPS residency investigation and could survive a home visit (with pictures taken of a kid's bedroom) it's nobody's business if you do this. You don't need to teach your kids to lie; you could simply teach them not to talk about the apartment. Sounds like a huge and expensive hassle though.

Our school does home visits and took photos of our kids in their bedroom, but when they set it up, they emailed us to ask what address to come to. We only have the one address we live at, but I didn't get the impression that the teachers were double checking residency.

Photos of your kids in their rooms? I would not allow that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guys an apartment runs 2,000 a month. With that kind of money, the OP has better options than rent an apartment. This is a troll post. If you had 2,000 a month, 24,000 a year, extra to spend to get your kid a good education, is there any way in hell this is the choice you'd make? No, you'd use that money to buy a house in bounds with it or you'd use it to go private. This is why you could actually do this and never worry about getting caught - because no one would do this so the documents provided are more than sufficient.

NP. We like our house and don't want to move. Our child currently attends a private, but when there have been times when we were looking at different schools, we included public schools as an option with the idea that we'd rent an apartment to meet the residency requirements. If you like your home and your neighborhood and are just looking for different school options, moving doesn't make sense unless you absolutely have to.

Well, in order to legally meet residency requirements, you do absolutely have to move.

[Anonymous]

A friend of mine did it in MD. She was on trial separation from her husband and rented in a good school district. Both kids were star students in the new school. She did not try to hide her situation and the school could do NOTHING.