Is this residency fraud?
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Anonymous
NP. You are conflating a legal loophole and the realities of it being difficult to prove this type of fraud and DC's general disinterest in trying to build non-slam dunk cases. You are right that someone probably faces little practical risk. DC is not going to have an investigator meticulously track where the student actually resides. But you are absolutely wrong that it is a LEGAL loophole. Low probability of being caught does not equal legal. |
Anonymous
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It's true that DCPS doesn't have a track record of going at families who use nuclear family addresses/residences for in-boundary registration where everybody involved is a bona fide DC resident. The great majority of these families are low SES, generally with matriarch grandmothers assuming a lot of responsibility for raising grand kids (sometimes total responsibility).
But the family does need to have the right paperwork and to be pass a home visit if one is done. |
Anonymous
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Try no probability of being caught because parents have the right to claim a DC residence they own and do not rent out as their legal domicile in the District.
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Anonymous
But why, like really why...what school in DCPS is worth this. The OP is a fool, a cheating one at that, but more importantly a fool. You're going to maintain 2 residences in DC and forgo rent in order to get your kid in where was it again  Parent needs their head examined 
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Anonymous
| The parent wants the grandmother in DC in a family-owned condo, and and the kid in a WOTP school. She explaind that she wants to kill two birds with one stone. |
Anonymous
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I really hope some of you don’t start following random grannies just to out the OP...
...wouldn’t surprise me in Trumps America. |
Anonymous
Only the brown ones will be followed. |
Anonymous
No, they don't. You can't have two domiciles, and the form asks where you "reside." |
Anonymous
oh stfu about Trump. OP is taking a spot away from a poor kid - she's literally buying a spot in a better school likely in part due to her own racism about the Shaw schools. also it was OP who asked is it fraud. we're just answering the question. |
Anonymous
The last refuge of scoundrels in DC, especially when called out for their criminal conduct, is to play the race card. |
Anonymous
I also don’t like residency fraud (including arrangements like OP’s) for this reason—it means poor/middle class kids are less likely to lottery into good schools—but also for admittedly selfish reasons. +1. Our IB is has a growing percentage of IB families, although much lower IB overall than the JKLMs. When people like OP pull these sorts of shenanigans, it means that other IB families that actually live in the neighborhood are more likely to get waitlisted for PK3/4. When this happens, they go to other schools, like HRCS. Once they start down a different path, some stay on it. That means fewer actual IB families at the school. OP and others like her undermine the sense of community that comes with families in the same neighborhood at the school. Families doing what OP is doing are less likely to make the trek across town for evening school activities, no play dates since they don’t want to give away their arrangement, no bumping into each other at the playground, etc. This is why I find what OP is doing annoying—both for the “buying” her way into a school, and the undermined sense of community at our neighborhood school. I’m not annoyed enough to follow them home or report them, but TBH I wouldn’t mind if someone else did. |
Anonymous
+1. I also don’t like residency fraud (including arrangements like OP’s) for this reason—it means poor/middle class kids are less likely to lottery into good schools—but also for admittedly selfish reasons. Our IB is has a growing percentage of IB families, although much lower IB overall than the JKLMs. When people like OP pull these sorts of shenanigans, it means that other IB families that actually live in the neighborhood are more likely to get waitlisted for PK3/4. When this happens, they go to other schools, like HRCS. Once they start down a different path, some stay on it. That means fewer actual IB families at the school. OP and others like her undermine the sense of community that comes with families in the same neighborhood at the school. Families doing what OP is doing are less likely to make the trek across town for evening school activities, no play dates since they don’t want to give away their arrangement, no bumping into each other at the playground, etc. This is why I find what OP is doing annoying—both for the “buying” her way into a school, and the undermined sense of community at our neighborhood school. I’m not annoyed enough to follow them home or report them, but TBH I wouldn’t mind if someone else did. |
Anonymous
Not if a parent does not live there. If the parents were divorced and shared custody, then yes you can use either address without counting the number of days in each place. But that isn't OP's situation. Grandma, not a legal guardian, lives in that apartment. To use your terms, she is "renting" that apartment, even if the rent paid is $0. The important thing is that neither the child nor any legal guardian of the child lives in that apartment. |
Anonymous
Are you kidding? People who bend the rules for their own convenience and gain at the expense of those less fortunate merely because they can afford it and don’t think they will get caught. That is Trump’s America. Is that you? |
Anonymous
OP here. Don't throw the R word out please. I am not white. |