Question re FCPS residency requirements

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as you get your school mail at the Condo and provide your own transportation, your odds of being caught are pretty low. Especially if you haven't made any enemies at the condo to turn you in.

Do not do this!! Don't teach your child that lying is ok. Your kid is going to make friends at school. Some one WILL find out where you live. How horrible if you are caught and then your child is ripped away from friends and knows it is because you lied.

[Anonymous]

Actually, I've never tried this, but I've joked with my husband that we should have kept his condo that we rented out for awhile. You are in the county, and you own two pieces of property. You are paying more in real estate taxes than folks with just one piece of property. (and supporting the schools more than folks posting on this forum)

Technically, at the high school level I don't think it would matter. The hassle will be getting the kids to and from school since there won't be busing to your current house.

Due to pupil placement and all the language/IB/AP drama at the high school level, I think a quarter of the kids don't live in district. No on cares.

Why do you want the other school? I'm sure there are other way to get your DC into the high school of the condo that you already own in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I've never tried this, but I've joked with my husband that we should have kept his condo that we rented out for awhile. You are in the county, and you own two pieces of property. You are paying more in real estate taxes than folks with just one piece of property. (and supporting the schools more than folks posting on this forum)

Technically, at the high school level I don't think it would matter. The hassle will be getting the kids to and from school since there won't be busing to your current house.

Due to pupil placement and all the language/IB/AP drama at the high school level, I think a quarter of the kids don't live in district. No on cares.

Why do you want the other school? I'm sure there are other way to get your DC into the high school of the condo that you already own in.

Technically, at the high school level I don't think it would matter. The hassle will be getting the kids to and from school since there won't be busing to your current house.

PP who turned in a HS student living well out of boundaries. I'd argue that at the high school level, residency fraud matters more. Coveted sports team spot? Several area schools are overcrowded. College placement? Course availability? All are critically important and numbers dependent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if you get a divorce and can't afford to live in the same school district, but spouse lives in the old district. Then which school do your kids go to?

Expensive areas have good schools because of high income and dual parent household. Didn't think of that before divorce eh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually, I've never tried this, but I've joked with my husband that we should have kept his condo that we rented out for awhile. You are in the county, and you own two pieces of property. You are paying more in real estate taxes than folks with just one piece of property. (and supporting the schools more than folks posting on this forum)

Technically, at the high school level I don't think it would matter. The hassle will be getting the kids to and from school since there won't be busing to your current house.

Due to pupil placement and all the language/IB/AP drama at the high school level, I think a quarter of the kids don't live in district. No on cares.

Why do you want the other school? I'm sure there are other way to get your DC into the high school of the condo that you already own in.

Sure, you're technically paying taxes, but one assumes that the rent you are charging covers those tax payments, right?
And as PP noted above, it's actually more problematic at the high school.

[Anonymous]

Other than people who report others, what are the ways that schools find out when people change boundaries but don't report? This happened recently to someone I know. They think someone ratted them out but wouldn't it be reported when they change address on all their forms (taxes, DMV, utilities, etc.)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Other than people who report others, what are the ways that schools find out when people change boundaries but don't report? This happened recently to someone I know. They think someone ratted them out but wouldn't it be reported when they change address on all their forms (taxes, DMV, utilities, etc.)?

Frequently, it is the student who says something within earshot of someone at the school.

[Anonymous]

This is an issue? Yet we allow students who don't even belong in the US to show up and get a free education. I know it's the law that they have to be educated, but it's a bad law that needs to be changed.

If those students weren't here, we probably wouldn't have folks trying to get out of low-performing schools with lots of FARMs and ESOL into higher-rated ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an issue? Yet we allow students who don't even belong in the US to show up and get a free education. I know it's the law that they have to be educated, but it's a bad law that needs to be changed.

If those students weren't here, we probably wouldn't have folks trying to get out of low-performing schools with lots of FARMs and ESOL into higher-rated ones.

So true!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other than people who report others, what are the ways that schools find out when people change boundaries but don't report? This happened recently to someone I know. They think someone ratted them out but wouldn't it be reported when they change address on all their forms (taxes, DMV, utilities, etc.)?

Frequently, it is the student who says something within earshot of someone at the school.

Really? I just assumed that when people move, among the plethora of forms that are changed with the new address that some of them were required to inform the school district. Or that the schools verified residency once a year or something.

[Anonymous]

Other than people who report others, what are the ways that schools find out when people change boundaries but don't report? This happened recently to someone I know. They think someone ratted them out but wouldn't it be reported when they change address on all their forms (taxes, DMV, utilities, etc.)?

Mail might be returned to the school. Agree that school personnel are most likely to figure it out. Kids talk. Also, transportation. If the parent always picks the kid up late or the bus driver might know the kid does not live in the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if you get a divorce and can't afford to live in the same school district, but spouse lives in the old district. Then which school do your kids go to?

Expensive areas have good schools because of high income and dual parent household. Didn't think of that before divorce eh?

It's not necessary to be mean when you have no idea what people's struggles are.

[Anonymous]

Kids talk. It's really not right to ask your kid to lie to friends, teachers, etc. It's a burden for the kid and teaches them that skirting rules is okay. If you want your kid to go to a different school, ask for a pupil placement if you have a good reason. This does happen. In my experience, the ones who try to skirt the rules are not the best students. Sadly. Teacher here.

[Anonymous]

What if you get a divorce and can't afford to live in the same school district, but spouse lives in the old district. Then which school do your kids go to?

I think there is a rule where they go to school at the residence they spend the most nights or something like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What if you get a divorce and can't afford to live in the same school district, but spouse lives in the old district. Then which school do your kids go to?

I think there is a rule where they go to school at the residence they spend the most nights or something like that.

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