residency cheater in Janney PK.

[Anonymous]

NP here. I met someone who lives in Maryland but planned to apply as a DC resident. She laid out her plan in detail and relied heavily on the advice of others from Maryland who do it as well.

I don't know where her child ended up or if he/she even "won" the lottery, but I know that it is something that at least some folks in Maryland don't bat an eye about. If you can do it, they think it won't be a problem.

Luckily, my child got into a school I'm happy with. If my child had not and I found out her child had I would be furious.

I feel bad for DC residents that are displaced by cheaters. I've seen several families move out of the city because they were not able to get into their choice school.

This is a BIG problem in DC. It effects some more than others. I support those affected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here. I met someone who lives in Maryland but planned to apply as a DC resident. She laid out her plan in detail and relied heavily on the advice of others from Maryland who do it as well.

I don't know where her child ended up or if he/she even "won" the lottery, but I know that it is something that at least some folks in Maryland don't bat an eye about. If you can do it, they think it won't be a problem.

Luckily, my child got into a school I'm happy with. If my child had not and I found out her child had I would be furious.

I feel bad for DC residents that are displaced by cheaters. I've seen several families move out of the city because they were not able to get into their choice school.

This is a BIG problem in DC. It effects some more than others. I support those affected.

I have in mind an out of state institution that she should be attending. It's called Lorton.

[Anonymous]

Lortom was closed 13 years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:LOling that there are 12 pages of people defending cheaters!

Not really. There are 12 pages of people talking about residency cheating. Some people are wondering how the OP knows so much about this family. Some are talking about the many people at their school that they know to be cheating. One person is counting Maryland plates at Stuart-Hobson. My guess is that none of the people who are enraged about cheating and claim to know cheaters have actually reported those people.

What's worse - someone who suggests that people who are perceived to be cheating might actually not be or people who are certain that a person is cheating and doesn't report them?

But why wonder? Who cares how the OP knows what she knows. Suspecting someone of fraud is enough to report them. If they are not guilty of fraud, what's the harm? None! As soon as someone says "but what if..." they are searching for excuses why the OP shouldn't report this, i.e. defending a potential cheater. That's what's so insane about all this. People making excuses for why the potential cheater isn't a cheater and why op shouldn't report it. That's just stupid!

You know what else is "just stupid!"? The original post of this thread. OP states that there is a family that is lying, claiming to live somewhere they don't live and that an internet search indicates that those people live elsewhere in DC/MD and then, despite the continual chatter that this topic generates every 5 minutes, she says "What to do?" as though she was not aware that what you do is call the hotline, which can be found pretty easily.

I wonder how the OP knows because I am actually one of those cases in which people seeing me dropping DD off at school might suspect me of being a cheater. Her dad and I are divorced and legally, we share custody 50/50. We use his address as her official address (which is perfectly legal), and occasionally I drop her off at her DCPS in a car that has Maryland plates (thanks, carpool!). So my reason for wondering how the OP knows is to see if she's just assuming that the family in question is cheating based on criteria that could have other explanations.

So you're claiming Dad in DC as the child's primary address, while you have primary custody in MD?

Who claims her as a dependent on tax returns? You cannot (legally) both claim the child as a dependent. That determines who has "primary" custody. Of course, if neither of you claim her as a dependent then your situation is in the grey area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It wouldn't surprise me to find 50-100 non-District residents enrolled at each of Deal and Wilson.

Then perhaps the only boundaries that need to be redrawn the ones between DC and Maryland.

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Anonymous wrote:You go by Capitol Hill schools at drop-off or pickup and half the cars are from Maryland.

"Ward 9," baby!

Haha! Well put.

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Anonymous wrote:LOling that there are 12 pages of people defending cheaters!

Not really. There are 12 pages of people talking about residency cheating. Some people are wondering how the OP knows so much about this family. Some are talking about the many people at their school that they know to be cheating. One person is counting Maryland plates at Stuart-Hobson. My guess is that none of the people who are enraged about cheating and claim to know cheaters have actually reported those people.

What's worse - someone who suggests that people who are perceived to be cheating might actually not be or people who are certain that a person is cheating and doesn't report them?

But why wonder? Who cares how the OP knows what she knows. Suspecting someone of fraud is enough to report them. If they are not guilty of fraud, what's the harm? None! As soon as someone says "but what if..." they are searching for excuses why the OP shouldn't report this, i.e. defending a potential cheater. That's what's so insane about all this. People making excuses for why the potential cheater isn't a cheater and why op shouldn't report it. That's just stupid!

You know what else is "just stupid!"? The original post of this thread. OP states that there is a family that is lying, claiming to live somewhere they don't live and that an internet search indicates that those people live elsewhere in DC/MD and then, despite the continual chatter that this topic generates every 5 minutes, she says "What to do?" as though she was not aware that what you do is call the hotline, which can be found pretty easily.

I wonder how the OP knows because I am actually one of those cases in which people seeing me dropping DD off at school might suspect me of being a cheater. Her dad and I are divorced and legally, we share custody 50/50. We use his address as her official address (which is perfectly legal), and occasionally I drop her off at her DCPS in a car that has Maryland plates (thanks, carpool!). So my reason for wondering how the OP knows is to see if she's just assuming that the family in question is cheating based on criteria that could have other explanations.

So you're claiming Dad in DC as the child's primary address, while you have primary custody in MD?

Who claims her as a dependent on tax returns? You cannot (legally) both claim the child as a dependent. That determines who has "primary" custody. Of course, if neither of you claim her as a dependent then your situation is in the grey area.

We trade off years. Last year it did. This year, he will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lortom was closed 13 years ago.

And in VA.

[Anonymous]

But it was built for and operated by the DC Government.

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Anonymous wrote:It wouldn't surprise me to find 50-100 non-District residents enrolled at each of Deal and Wilson.

Then perhaps the only boundaries that need to be redrawn the ones between DC and Maryland.

It's a problem. They're throwing Ward 3 kids out of the Deal feeder pattern because of overcrowding, yet doing practically nothing to root out MD kids who are fraudulently enrolled at Deal and at Wilson HS.

[Anonymous]

How sad is their situation that they would try to get into dcps, one of the worst school systems in the country

[Anonymous]

They are refugees in dire straits if they choose dcps, Obama should declare them status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How sad is their situation that they would try to get into dcps, one of the worst school systems in the country

Not true of all of DCPS, duh.

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Anonymous wrote:LOling that there are 12 pages of people defending cheaters!

Not really. There are 12 pages of people talking about residency cheating. Some people are wondering how the OP knows so much about this family. Some are talking about the many people at their school that they know to be cheating. One person is counting Maryland plates at Stuart-Hobson. My guess is that none of the people who are enraged about cheating and claim to know cheaters have actually reported those people.

What's worse - someone who suggests that people who are perceived to be cheating might actually not be or people who are certain that a person is cheating and doesn't report them?

But why wonder? Who cares how the OP knows what she knows. Suspecting someone of fraud is enough to report them. If they are not guilty of fraud, what's the harm? None! As soon as someone says "but what if..." they are searching for excuses why the OP shouldn't report this, i.e. defending a potential cheater. That's what's so insane about all this. People making excuses for why the potential cheater isn't a cheater and why op shouldn't report it. That's just stupid!

You know what else is "just stupid!"? The original post of this thread. OP states that there is a family that is lying, claiming to live somewhere they don't live and that an internet search indicates that those people live elsewhere in DC/MD and then, despite the continual chatter that this topic generates every 5 minutes, she says "What to do?" as though she was not aware that what you do is call the hotline, which can be found pretty easily.

I wonder how the OP knows because I am actually one of those cases in which people seeing me dropping DD off at school might suspect me of being a cheater. Her dad and I are divorced and legally, we share custody 50/50. We use his address as her official address (which is perfectly legal), and occasionally I drop her off at her DCPS in a car that has Maryland plates (thanks, carpool!). So my reason for wondering how the OP knows is to see if she's just assuming that the family in question is cheating based on criteria that could have other explanations.

So you're claiming Dad in DC as the child's primary address, while you have primary custody in MD?

Who claims her as a dependent on tax returns? You cannot (legally) both claim the child as a dependent. That determines who has "primary" custody. Of course, if neither of you claim her as a dependent then your situation is in the grey area.

We trade off years. Last year it did. This year, he will.

Well, at least you know when you're cheating DC out of their tuition money. When he claims her as a dependent, she has his address as the official address. When you claim her as a dependent she "lives" in Maryland and you should be paying DCPS tuition.

"How much would an out-of-state resident get charged to send their kid to D.C. public schools for a year? Between $6,709 and $11,986. Or they could pay day by day, only $37 to $67." (http://dcist.com/2012/05/feed_up_this_is_what_dc_charges_you.php)

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Anonymous wrote:It wouldn't surprise me to find 50-100 non-District residents enrolled at each of Deal and Wilson.

Then perhaps the only boundaries that need to be redrawn the ones between DC and Maryland.

Good point! What are the mayoral candidates' positions on cheaters?