| You’re going to teach your kid to lie when people ask where they live? |
| "I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?" |
Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity. |
If the grandparents are providing after school care, yes. You can apply under childcare hardship. Don’t pretend to live there. https://www.fcps.edu/registration/student-transfer-information#child-care-hardship-k-6 To OP, you can’t use a rental property address without living in it. Next time the lease is up, don’t renew and sleep there a few nights per week, preferably sun-Thurs. Then you can use the address. |
Why shouldn’t everyone at the title 1 school get to go to a wealthier school, under that logic? Why are you special? |
Why is residency fraud cheating? Because it's fraud... |
+1 Poors need to stay in schools for poors. FCPS spent a lot of effort drawing lines to avoid mixing. |
OP isn’t poor. They would rather have multiple rental properties than send their kid to a school they deem good in a legal manner. There are lots of families at title 1 schools who would love to send their kids to a wealthy school but they can’t and don’t try to bend the rules like OP is. |
If OP could afford to live in one of their houses in a better district and rent out their house in the worst district, they would. |
You missed the point. Wealthy parents with flexibility to drive their kids everyday have always been pupil placing out of those Title 1 schools for the many many years. Now that population has increased and some schools are overcrowded, pupil placement privileges are taken away. That isn't fair. I'm not special, but I deserve the same rights for a good school as they did. |
Why isn’t it fair, if those schools are overcrowded? |
If OP can afford to own multiple houses in NoVa they can afford to live full-time in the one in the better school district. This isn’t some low-income family. OP should sell the properties they can’t afford if need be. |
If you can do it, what's to stop poor kids from doing it? Tholen did her best to keep those kids out of her schools |
They can afford to. |
| If FARMs families found addresses to lie about to get into schools in McLean, people would blow a gasket. But I guess it’s okay if rich people who own 4 (!) houses do it. |