Tuition to W school? Is it possible?

[Anonymous]

OP here, I do not want to face fraud charges. I've seen a WaPo article in which two families were prosecuted for residency charges and "stealing an education in DCPS". I am sure that MCPS would not hesitate to charge for charges, especially when the school district is more together than DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Just move. If you can't afford a SFH in the zone you want, rent an apartment for a few years.

[Anonymous]

Wilson pulls from too many areas of the city for me, additionally, many Wilson families do not provide the same home structure as the W schools. Many W school families get tutors and actively seek to support their children at home. I would rather deal with the over wealthy and semi-drug culture than deal with guns being on campus (as Wilson has dealt with over the past year).

W schools also have a history of continuity versus DCPS with their administration and its faculty. Continuity is important when dealing with education, it means that admin and teachers aren't building a plane while flying it mid-air.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

Even ignoring the dishonesty of this, it is just not true that MoCo isn’t on the lookout for people who don’t belong. I know of a very sad case where a high school student was determined not to have appropriate documentation of residency. She was met at the entrance of the school by the in-house cop and denied entrance. It was extremely traumatic for the child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just move. If you can't afford a SFH in the zone you want, rent an apartment for a few years.

+1 I'd rather live in DC too (closer to my office), but there's a reason people start flocking to MoCo in the elementary school years and beyond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

yeah good luck with that. you need to show two months of utilities and pay stubs with a custodial parent's address (just registered my kid this year). that's some pretty serious fraud you'd be engaging in.

Serious fraud? Show where anyone has ever gotten in trouble for doing this.

Do you read the news? Here's a MD couple who got fined half a million dollars for sending their kids to DC schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/md-family-that-sent-kids-to-dc-public-schools-must-pay-more-than-500000-fine/2016/07/28/b7f3656c-54eb-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html?utm_term=.0072068067b0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

yeah good luck with that. you need to show two months of utilities and pay stubs with a custodial parent's address (just registered my kid this year). that's some pretty serious fraud you'd be engaging in.

Serious fraud? Show where anyone has ever gotten in trouble for doing this.

This. MCPS does not have the resources to go after this.

We know of several families that have done this over the years without any consequences.

It’s not a big issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

yeah good luck with that. you need to show two months of utilities and pay stubs with a custodial parent's address (just registered my kid this year). that's some pretty serious fraud you'd be engaging in.

Serious fraud? Show where anyone has ever gotten in trouble for doing this.

Do you read the news? Here's a MD couple who got fined half a million dollars for sending their kids to DC schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/md-family-that-sent-kids-to-dc-public-schools-must-pay-more-than-500000-fine/2016/07/28/b7f3656c-54eb-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html?utm_term=.0072068067b0

That is DC schools! It is well known that MCPS does not go after this.

[Anonymous]

I also vote for renting for a few years and moving while your kid in in HS. My child is at Murch now and going to Deal in a few years, but he will not be going to Wilson. I'm renting now so it's not a huge issue when we have to move for HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

yeah good luck with that. you need to show two months of utilities and pay stubs with a custodial parent's address (just registered my kid this year). that's some pretty serious fraud you'd be engaging in.

Serious fraud? Show where anyone has ever gotten in trouble for doing this.

Do you read the news? Here's a MD couple who got fined half a million dollars for sending their kids to DC schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/md-family-that-sent-kids-to-dc-public-schools-must-pay-more-than-500000-fine/2016/07/28/b7f3656c-54eb-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html?utm_term=.0072068067b0

That is DC schools! It is well known that MCPS does not go after this.

There is a fraud hotline. http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/fraudhotline/
And if you think the Type A parents at already overcrowded W schools aren't going to report someone who is obviously living in Tenleytown, you're mistaken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

yeah good luck with that. you need to show two months of utilities and pay stubs with a custodial parent's address (just registered my kid this year). that's some pretty serious fraud you'd be engaging in.

Serious fraud? Show where anyone has ever gotten in trouble for doing this.

Do you read the news? Here's a MD couple who got fined half a million dollars for sending their kids to DC schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/md-family-that-sent-kids-to-dc-public-schools-must-pay-more-than-500000-fine/2016/07/28/b7f3656c-54eb-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html?utm_term=.0072068067b0

That is DC schools! It is well known that MCPS does not go after this.

There is a fraud hotline. http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/fraudhotline/
And if you think the Type A parents at already overcrowded W schools aren't going to report someone who is obviously living in Tenleytown, you're mistaken.

+100

If I know that someone is committing residency fraud, I am reporting it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This. MCPS does not have the resources to go after this.

We know of several families that have done this over the years without any consequences.

It’s not a big issue.

It's ok to commit fraud, if the odds are that nobody will catch you?

[Anonymous]

I'll turn you in. Repeatedly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

yeah good luck with that. you need to show two months of utilities and pay stubs with a custodial parent's address (just registered my kid this year). that's some pretty serious fraud you'd be engaging in.

Serious fraud? Show where anyone has ever gotten in trouble for doing this.

This. MCPS does not have the resources to go after this.

We know of several families that have done this over the years without any consequences.

It’s not a big issue.

Incorrect, it's absolutely a major issue when kids are in trailer classrooms and not fitting in lunch hour at lunch time. Plus the budgeting gets off. and the projection models even more so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

yeah good luck with that. you need to show two months of utilities and pay stubs with a custodial parent's address (just registered my kid this year). that's some pretty serious fraud you'd be engaging in.

Serious fraud? Show where anyone has ever gotten in trouble for doing this.

Do you read the news? Here's a MD couple who got fined half a million dollars for sending their kids to DC schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/md-family-that-sent-kids-to-dc-public-schools-must-pay-more-than-500000-fine/2016/07/28/b7f3656c-54eb-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html?utm_term=.0072068067b0

That is DC schools! It is well known that MCPS does not go after this.

There is a fraud hotline. http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/fraudhotline/
And if you think the Type A parents at already overcrowded W schools aren't going to report someone who is obviously living in Tenleytown, you're mistaken.

+100

If I know that someone is committing residency fraud, I am reporting it.

You can report it all you want, but it is incredibly difficult to prove where people live. The people who I know that do this have their utility bills sent to an in boundary address. But they live out of boundary. There is NO WAY MCPS can prove this. Impossible.