Renting but not occupying for DCPS in-boundary residency purposes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every single one of the shaming posts so far have only shown how little of a care any boundary cheater should have.

The chancellor enabled boundary cheaters.The deputy mayor is in their ranks. Everyone else can cheat with a clean conscience.

So just because some prominent figures are cheating, that makes it okay? Nice rationalization there.

People twist themselves in knots trying to resolve their cognitive dissonance. They KNOW they're doing something wrong, yet try their best to convince themselves otherwise.

I have members of my extended family (in another city) who've cheated by using the address of relatives. Guess what? My young family member got kicked out of the high school he was attending after someone ratted them out. Disrupted his last two years of high school academically and his progress in the two sports he played, and was really good at.

It was wrong when my family member decided to do it, and it's wrong when these people in DC owning multiple properties do it. No way around it. Plus, you're putting your kids' academic trajectories at risk by cheating, since they'll have to lie and mislead people in order to avoid being found out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every single one of the shaming posts so far have only shown how little of a care any boundary cheater should have.

The chancellor enabled boundary cheaters.The deputy mayor is in their ranks. Everyone else can cheat with a clean conscience.

So just because some prominent figures are cheating, that makes it okay? Nice rationalization there.

People twist themselves in knots trying to resolve their cognitive dissonance. They KNOW they're doing something wrong, yet try their best to convince themselves otherwise.

I have members of my extended family (in another city) who've cheated by using the address of relatives. Guess what? My young family member got kicked out of the high school he was attending after someone ratted them out. Disrupted his last two years of high school academically and his progress in the two sports he played, and was really good at.

It was wrong when my family member decided to do it, and it's wrong when these people in DC owning multiple properties do it. No way around it. Plus, you're putting your kids' academic trajectories at risk by cheating, since they'll have to lie and mislead people in order to avoid being found out.

Amen to everything you said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My "neighborhood school, " a mile from one of our two Hill properties, is more than 75% OOB. The DCPS where I send my kids (we enroll using the address of a property we let relatives stay in) is less than 1/3 OOB. The school we use is across the street from the property where we sleep most nights.

Call us hypocrites for defining our beloved hood of 25 years on our terms, vs. those of a DCPS bureaucrats who drew school boundaries lines in 1960s.

We know of half a dozen other families in the school community owning multiple properties locally who've made similar arrangements. I'm aware that a couple have been investigated over the years, after fellow parents called the fraud hotline. They're still in the school.

Few local high SES parents here seem to have much faith in DCPS. Hardly anybody plans to stay in the system for MS. Lack of respect for system leaders and their rules shapes our thinking about residency. There's little trust, and hardly any buy-in past ES. We'll be in charters and privates from 6th grade.

It's less of an issue for a school with significant OOB that's not in high demand. It's worse when people cheat to go to high-demand schools, pushing out people who play by the rules (eg, lottery) and contributing to overcrowding.

Ya know, I agree if people are renting units just to use schools. Don't agree if they own, nicely maintain and don't rent out real estate in their own hood. Worse case, they spend more time at their 2nd local property. Yea parents know, and few care, particularly if the "cheater" parents pull their weight at the school. People are really busy with their own lives.

You busybodies must have something better to do than obsess about the choices of neighborhood home owners. Their schools feed into the same crappy middle and high schools yours do. We're all screwed outside Deal & Wilson.

[Anonymous]

The deputy mayor cheats. No problems with a random taxpayer who dos also.

[Anonymous]

Do the normie busybodies in this thread shun the children of known boundary cheater Roberto Rodriguez?

[Anonymous]

I sublease an apt on Conn avenue for a monthly profit and my kids attend a good school. If the deputy mayor can do it, so can I!

[Anonymous]

I used to be annoyed by the idea of people who rent a property they don't live in to access a school, but the over the top bitties on here who just seethe about it need to focus on themselves. Your desire for justice on this issue is way out of proportion. You just seem gross.

[Anonymous]

Question though....aren't the people who own in DC and then rent in DC paying $ towards property tax in both wards (in the renter's case that $ goes to the landlord who then pays taxes to DC)? Wouldn't that count for something?

[Anonymous]

There's another option I didn't see on here... send your kids to the local school, donate half of what you pay for private to the HSA and GET INVOLVED! That's why a lot of WOTP schools are so good. A generation ago, parents started doing this. None of us have extra time or money, but you make it work...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's another option I didn't see on here... send your kids to the local school, donate half of what you pay for private to the HSA and GET INVOLVED! That's why a lot of WOTP schools are so good. A generation ago, parents started doing this. None of us have extra time or money, but you make it work...

That’s not why.

[Anonymous]

The deputy mayor is a boundary cheater and some of you are trying to make OP feel guilty. Lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to be annoyed by the idea of people who rent a property they don't live in to access a school, but the over the top bitties on here who just seethe about it need to focus on themselves. Your desire for justice on this issue is way out of proportion. You just seem gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question though....aren't the people who own in DC and then rent in DC paying $ towards property tax in both wards (in the renter's case that $ goes to the landlord who then pays taxes to DC)? Wouldn't that count for something?

No. If that's true, then I should just be able to pay money for my kid to attend what I consider a better school in a different ward. There are obviously issues with that ... school seats are NOT distributed based on how much parents' pay in taxes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's another option I didn't see on here... send your kids to the local school, donate half of what you pay for private to the HSA and GET INVOLVED! That's why a lot of WOTP schools are so good. A generation ago, parents started doing this. None of us have extra time or money, but you make it work...

That’s not why.

It certainly isn't. Schools

WotP are good because most of their student populations have been overwhelmingly high SES, and the parents overwhelmingly college and graduate school educated, for at least 20 years.

I can't make my IB school work past K. This big school has had half a dozen principals in 8 years, there isn't a single white or Asian kid past 1st grade (and hardly any in 1st). Third grade PARCC scores are in the 20s. Almost everybody high SES IB goes charter or private past PreK. But we are heavily involved at the DCPS we lotteried into.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to be annoyed by the idea of people who rent a property they don't live in to access a school, but the over the top bitties on here who just seethe about it need to focus on themselves. Your desire for justice on this issue is way out of proportion. You just seem gross.

+100. Controlling, arrogant, sanctimonious creeps.