In-bounds verification

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The mom who was investigated for fraud when divorcing again here. That's just not how it works, at least not in my experience. No need to fess up to a thing or say anything at all for that matter. If investigated, you bring in several years of certified tax returns linked to an IB address and are cleared on the spot. I wasn't under the impression that DCPS gave a hoot if I lived at the address on the tax returns or not. They cared that my returns bore an IB address and that I'd paid my taxes. There was no mention of a home visit.

Yup. All DC cares about is if they got their money.

All the boundary fraud cases you've read about are people who live in MD or VA taking advantage of DC schools without paying taxes or tuition to DC. That's the crime that gets the city's attention - you didn't pay up. And DC tends to go hardest after government employees committing boundary fraud.

If you show taxes paid with an in-boundary address, you are cleared. When DC does it's annual residency verification for re-enrollment, DC taxes are the only thing you need to show! If you try to use something else, DC wants multiple forms of verification. But taxes paid? You're golden.

[Anonymous]

No doubt that this is true. Those of you who are up in arms about boundary cheating may not want to hear it, but that's the story. Why not accept the situation for what it is rather than coming on every verification thread shouting fraud! shame! losers! over and over. What, exactly, do you think you're accomplishing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The mom who was investigated for fraud when divorcing again here. That's just not how it works, at least not in my experience. No need to fess up to a thing or say anything at all for that matter. If investigated, you bring in several years of certified tax returns linked to an IB address and are cleared on the spot. I wasn't under the impression that DCPS gave a hoot if I lived at the address on the tax returns or not. They cared that my returns bore an IB address and that I'd paid my taxes. There was no mention of a home visit.

Presenting a fake address when you are being investigated for residency fraud would require some very big cojones. Lying on the enrollment form is one thing but compounding that by lying in a law enforcement investigation? Whole ‘nother level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No doubt that this is true. Those of you who are up in arms about boundary cheating may not want to hear it, but that's the story. Why not accept the situation for what it is rather than coming on every verification thread shouting fraud! shame! losers! over and over. What, exactly, do you think you're accomplishing?

“Wah I’m entitled to cheat but don’t call me a cheater! Wah I own multiple Hill
properties and that allows me to lie on forms!”

[Anonymous]

Quite right, but the question remains.

Slamming these people here, mocking them, calling them one name after another, doesn't seem to be paying off for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No doubt that this is true. Those of you who are up in arms about boundary cheating may not want to hear it, but that's the story. Why not accept the situation for what it is rather than coming on every verification thread shouting fraud! shame! losers! over and over. What, exactly, do you think you're accomplishing?

“Wah I’m entitled to cheat but don’t call me a cheater! Wah I own multiple Hill
properties and that allows me to lie on forms!”

My kids attended the school and all you can do is be mad about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No doubt that this is true. Those of you who are up in arms about boundary cheating may not want to hear it, but that's the story. Why not accept the situation for what it is rather than coming on every verification thread shouting fraud! shame! losers! over and over. What, exactly, do you think you're accomplishing?

“Wah I’m entitled to cheat but don’t call me a cheater! Wah I own multiple Hill
properties and that allows me to lie on forms!”

My kids attended the school and all you can do is be mad about it.

I won’t report you but someone else might.

[Anonymous]

Go ahead, report them. You seem to have missed the last half dozen pages. DCPS only cares if parents pay DC income tax at the address used to enroll a student in an IB school, vs. where a family sleeps. Report them for what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go ahead, report them. You seem to have missed the last half dozen pages. DCPS only cares if parents pay DC income tax at the address used to enroll a student in an IB school, vs. where a family sleeps. Report them for what?

Lying about their address. You seem unclear about the concept.

[Anonymous]

You don’t seem able to accept DCPS doesn’t mind if parents use an IB address for a property at which they don’t live as long as the parents own the place and pay their DC taxes. Just not that complicated. The leadership of the school system has decided that they have better things to worry about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go ahead, report them. You seem to have missed the last half dozen pages. DCPS only cares if parents pay DC income tax at the address used to enroll a student in an IB school, vs. where a family sleeps. Report them for what?

Lying about their address. You seem unclear about the concept.

NP. What's the relevance of the lying and our clarity when DCPS clearly doesn't care? Serious question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go ahead, report them. You seem to have missed the last half dozen pages. DCPS only cares if parents pay DC income tax at the address used to enroll a student in an IB school, vs. where a family sleeps. Report them for what?

Lying about their address. You seem unclear about the concept.

NP. What's the relevance of the lying and our clarity when DCPS clearly doesn't care? Serious question.

Because it’s illegal. No amount of anyone feeling entitled to send their kid to Brent will change that. The likelihood of getting caught is low, but gl when it happens.

[Anonymous]

The OSSE online tip form for reporting non-residency explicitly states that OSSE does not investigate boundary fraud. If that’s not clear enough, I’m not sure there’s any convincing the posters on this thread.

https://dc-osse-oer.i-sight.com/portal

[i] OSSE does not investigate District of Columbia Public School boundary issues, only issues of non-residency.[i]

[Anonymous]

Wow, interesting that OSSE doesn't get involved and states this. Seems that DCPS HQ could investigate boundary fraud itself but has made the decision not to put resources into doing so, without advertising it. Gentrifiers with the dough to buy two DC residential properties have figured this much out. The plot thickens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The OSSE online tip form for reporting non-residency explicitly states that OSSE does not investigate boundary fraud. If that’s not clear enough, I’m not sure there’s any convincing the posters on this thread.

https://dc-osse-oer.i-sight.com/portal

[i] OSSE does not investigate District of Columbia Public School boundary issues, only issues of non-residency.[i]

I feel like people so dead set on minimizing this have a real lack of understanding of how law enforcement works. If you report a false address and OSSE (or another agency) finds out, they *do not know* you live in the district. Because you have reported a false address, not your actual address. So this becomes a residency investigation. God speed to you if you believe that you can then continue to report your false address to investigators, or that there will be zero repercussions when it is revealed you made a false attestation. No you will not be prosecuted under the residency fraud statute, but you are absolutely smoking something if you don’t understand that law enforcement gets very pissed if you lie.