First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your residency parking stickers are just another example of how effed this city is. The entire place seems be designed to keep people in their tribes. And the fact that some of you are obsessed with license plates only emphasizes this more.

I see someone with MD plates dropping off a kid? I assume it's extended family or a grandparent. You see MD plates? You call the fraud department.

How can DC of all places be so full of people who are so obsessed with jockeying for their place that they automatically assume everyone is out to cheat them? It's gross. And tacky.

You make yourself look foolish when you completely misunderstand something as fundamental as Zoned parking. Those stickers only work on streets zoned for Residential parking. So, you see, the zones correspond to where people have their residences. Lord I despise the ignorant crowds from VA and MD who come into my city to work and make money when I can't even tax you. Come to think of it, WTF are you reading this forum anyway? The bored housewife syndrome must REALLY have you down girlfriend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your residency parking stickers are just another example of how effed this city is. The entire place seems be designed to keep people in their tribes. And the fact that some of you are obsessed with license plates only emphasizes this more.

I see someone with MD plates dropping off a kid? I assume it's extended family or a grandparent. You see MD plates? You call the fraud department.

How can DC of all places be so full of people who are so obsessed with jockeying for their place that they automatically assume everyone is out to cheat them? It's gross. And tacky.

This is what happens when there are long wait lists to get into schools.

Scarcity of resources. Google it. Or go take Econ 101. Not specific to DC.

[Anonymous]

Resources are not scarce here. But the bunker mentality you all have about them is a huge issue.

And I live in dc, thanks. I'm just a recent transplant who is having culture shock. Residency parking makes no sense. For that matter, allowing parking on streets like 16th also makes no sense. A lot of things here make no sense. I am beginning to understand the northern efficiency southern charm quote.

[Anonymous]

Wait... reverse those. Southern efficiency, northern charm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Resources are not scarce here. But the bunker mentality you all have about them is a huge issue.

And I live in dc, thanks. I'm just a recent transplant who is having culture shock. Residency parking makes no sense. For that matter, allowing parking on streets like 16th also makes no sense. A lot of things here make no sense. I am beginning to understand the northern efficiency southern charm quote.

Wherever you came from sent you out into the world unprepared. Parking in DC: scarce resource with more demand than supply. That's not an opinion my Northern Elitist friend, that's a fact. Quality public schools in DC: scarce resource. See, for instance, long waitlists at the best schools (public and charter).

Culture shock is no excuse to double down on your ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Resources are not scarce here. But the bunker mentality you all have about them is a huge issue.

And I live in dc, thanks. I'm just a recent transplant who is having culture shock. Residency parking makes no sense. For that matter, allowing parking on streets like 16th also makes no sense. A lot of things here make no sense. I am beginning to understand the northern efficiency southern charm quote.

What are you talking about? It is amazing you can tie your own shoes much less turn on a computer and try to talk with the adults.

[Anonymous]

Just DC paying MD back for all the kids who live in DC and end up using a fake address to us MD schools. I went to Blair I can count how many kids form the district went there in the late 80s and early 90s while I was there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your residency parking stickers are just another example of how effed this city is. The entire place seems be designed to keep people in their tribes. And the fact that some of you are obsessed with license plates only emphasizes this more.

I see someone with MD plates dropping off a kid? I assume it's extended family or a grandparent. You see MD plates? You call the fraud department.

How can DC of all places be so full of people who are so obsessed with jockeying for their place that they automatically assume everyone is out to cheat them? It's gross. And tacky.

New poster. I don't jump to conclusions about license plates. However, at back to school night I have read student work. One time it was a bio of students (where do you live, how many siblings do you have, what's your favorite food), I read about 7 bios and was astonished when I saw 4 students respond with MD cities.

[Anonymous]

What ward is Landover in?

Everyone knows the story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Resources are not scarce here. But the bunker mentality you all have about them is a huge issue.

And I live in dc, thanks. I'm just a recent transplant who is having culture shock. Residency parking makes no sense. For that matter, allowing parking on streets like 16th also makes no sense. A lot of things here make no sense. I am beginning to understand the northern efficiency southern charm quote.

Recent transplant, this thread has nothing to do with residency parking and residency parking has nothing to do with residency fraud in the public schools. If you don't understand the issue, and it is very, very clear that you do not, you have no business commenting on this thread.

Good public schools (and charter schools, because here in DC charter schools are public charter schools, which is not the case in other parts of the country) are a resource that is scarce. People lie about where they live to get a scarce spot in a good school. This is residency fraud. One of the most obvious possible indicators of residency fraud is an out of state license plate at drop off. Because residency fraud is a common problem in DC, the most responsible thing is for anyone noting an out of state plate to report that plate to the hotline and to the principal. If the person is cheating, their child needs to be removed from the school because they are stealing a place from a DC child who deserves to have access to the good public schools in the area in which they live. If the person with the out of state plate is not committing residency fraud, the ensuing investigation will clear them and they should have nothing to hide and no reason to fear being reported.

Cheaters, or people who support cheaters, say to MYOB to outward signs of potential cheating. As I said, if no one is doing anything wrong, they have no reason to fear being investigated for potential fraud.

That, recent transplant, is the issue of residency cheating. Hopefully this simple primer can help you from posting stupid in the future.

[Anonymous]

Well said

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Resources are not scarce here. But the bunker mentality you all have about them is a huge issue.

And I live in dc, thanks. I'm just a recent transplant who is having culture shock. Residency parking makes no sense. For that matter, allowing parking on streets like 16th also makes no sense. A lot of things here make no sense. I am beginning to understand the northern efficiency southern charm quote.

Recent transplant, this thread has nothing to do with residency parking and residency parking has nothing to do with residency fraud in the public schools. If you don't understand the issue, and it is very, very clear that you do not, you have no business commenting on this thread.

Good public schools (and charter schools, because here in DC charter schools are public charter schools, which is not the case in other parts of the country) are a resource that is scarce. People lie about where they live to get a scarce spot in a good school. This is residency fraud. One of the most obvious possible indicators of residency fraud is an out of state license plate at drop off. Because residency fraud is a common problem in DC, the most responsible thing is for anyone noting an out of state plate to report that plate to the hotline and to the principal. If the person is cheating, their child needs to be removed from the school because they are stealing a place from a DC child who deserves to have access to the good public schools in the area in which they live. If the person with the out of state plate is not committing residency fraud, the ensuing investigation will clear them and they should have nothing to hide and no reason to fear being reported.

Cheaters, or people who support cheaters, say to MYOB to outward signs of potential cheating. As I said, if no one is doing anything wrong, they have no reason to fear being investigated for potential fraud.

That, recent transplant, is the issue of residency cheating. Hopefully this simple primer can help you from posting stupid in the future.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like it is just well-off white people who are fired up about this.

So you're saying that African-Americans don't really care about cheating?! Unbelievable. Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are legit explanations, OP. Maybe try to find out more.

None of their business. Maybe it is a babysitter or relative.

As a taxpayer, it is my business.

They might pay tuition. Really, it's none of your business.

Very few pay tuition. I checked at my kids' NW elementary school a couple of years ago. Lots of MD plates. No tuition paying students.

[Anonymous]

Polite suggestion, define "live." Are you invoking tax laws on domicile? Custody agreements? Counting days each family member sleep where because there's some law or rule on the books mandating this? Which law or rule?

Our child lives in two homes, both of which we own, one with a grandparent. We pay the relevant DC taxes for him to attend public school in DC, but he only sleeps in DC half the time, or a little less. We keep a low profile, including never having any of his caregivers pull up in front of his school with out of state plates.

We don't want the headaches of whispering campaigns and silly DCPS initiated investigations, though we don't worry about them.