How to Report Out of State DCPS student?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're comfortable, go directly to the principal and make a report. Don't be surprised if nothing is done. You may want to follow up and ask how it was handled. There is absolutely no accountability for schools who don't monitor residency. That is beginning to change. There was just a thread on here with the name and number of a contact person to address this to. I just want to thank you for moving forward with putting in a complaint. Many people complain (on DCUM) and do nothing. Our kids (DC residents) are being shut out of school in the city. That hurts all of us.

It doesn't surprise me in the least that under-enrolled schools are reluctant to follow-up on this, as it inflates their numbers. I'm starting to wonder if DCPS isn't doing the same thing. Sure, it rips off the taxpayers, but at the rate DCPS is bleeding students one can see why they'd want to artificially inflate numbers too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MYOB

Nope, I most certainly won't. As someone about to enter my child in PS3, I will most definitely report any suspicious activity. Too many DC residents are being locked out and it's not right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just need to vent on this topic for a minute. This morning I dropped my daughter off at a very popular, well regarded charter school. She was 30 minutes late for school because we had to run in to the doctor's office first thing this morning. While I was dropping her off, an SUV with Maryland plates dropped off three children at school and then proceeded to throw her car's trash out the door into the curb as she drove off. How do I about reporting her? My daughter didn't recognize any of the kids because they were older. do i describe the car and the kids to the principal? BTW, my daughter was appalled at the trash throwing and ended up picking up the stuff she had dropped and throwing it away.

This is the same school where last year, with the principal in the room, a child making a class presentation on the Chesapeake Bay watershed asked the rhetorical question "How many of you live in MD, VA or DC?" And a few kids said "me!" when the child asked about Maryland.

Irritates the heck out of me.

1. Call the OSSE hotline at 202-727-7224
2. Call PCSB at 202-328-2660
3. Email [e-mail]
4. Fill out a residency fraud form online here

http://www.dcpubliccharter.com/Parents-and-Community/Residency-Fraud-and-Verification-Guidelines.aspx

[Anonymous]

FYI DCPS and the charter board are investigating.