residency fraud? (!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure I'm following this exchange. The pp shouting liar is claiming that everybody who contacts OSSE w/a tip enjoys total anonymity? The next person is asking the pp shouting liar for a law or citation preventing OSSE from sharing the identity of a tipster with the accused?

This is low-capacity, high corruption and dysfunction DC. We live in a city where clear rules are short supply almost everywhere you look--parking rules, construction rules, rules on school residency--and enforcement casual.

Parking rules are absolutely NOT enforcement "casual" in this City, I'll have you know. There have got to be more parking enforcement employees than firemen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+1. Boundary fraud is extremely commonplace, and residency fraud is probably not quite as common, but not a rare event either.

I was a class parent and had to collect contact info from parents in our all in-boundary PK3 class--one parent gave me a fake address with the wrong zip code.

Why would you need addresses as a class parent? Phone/email is all I collect as the room parent at my DC's school. Addresses are private and that's doing too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure I'm following this exchange. The pp shouting liar is claiming that everybody who contacts OSSE w/a tip enjoys total anonymity? The next person is asking the pp shouting liar for a law or citation preventing OSSE from sharing the identity of a tipster with the accused?

This is low-capacity, high corruption and dysfunction DC. We live in a city where clear rules are short supply almost everywhere you look--parking rules, construction rules, rules on school residency--and enforcement casual.

Parking rules are absolutely NOT enforcement "casual" in this City, I'll have you know. There have got to be more parking enforcement employees than firemen.

Parking enforcement is certainly casual in the alley behind my house, half a block from a Metro stop. My back gate gets blocked by people parking illegally on a regular basis. When I call parking enforcement to complain, generally nothing happens. I've gone to Ward 6 and put up a parking sign designed to look like a real one. Wouldn't happen in Arlington or Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1. Boundary fraud is extremely commonplace, and residency fraud is probably not quite as common, but not a rare event either.

I was a class parent and had to collect contact info from parents in our all in-boundary PK3 class--one parent gave me a fake address with the wrong zip code.

Why would you need addresses as a class parent? Phone/email is all I collect as the room parent at my DC's school. Addresses are private and that's doing too much.

Dumbest post ever. Zip code could have been a typo or whatever. Moreover, I would have given a fake address just to avoid having my privacy violated after a divorce. The school is entitled to know my address, not every other parent who wants it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure I'm following this exchange. The pp shouting liar is claiming that everybody who contacts OSSE w/a tip enjoys total anonymity? The next person is asking the pp shouting liar for a law or citation preventing OSSE from sharing the identity of a tipster with the accused?

This is low-capacity, high corruption and dysfunction DC. We live in a city where clear rules are short supply almost everywhere you look--parking rules, construction rules, rules on school residency--and enforcement casual.

Parking rules are absolutely NOT enforcement "casual" in this City, I'll have you know. There have got to be more parking enforcement employees than firemen.

Parking enforcement is certainly casual in the alley behind my house, half a block from a Metro stop. My back gate gets blocked by people parking illegally on a regular basis. When I call parking enforcement to complain, generally nothing happens. I've gone to Ward 6 and put up a parking sign designed to look like a real one. Wouldn't happen in Arlington or Bethesda.

That is in ally and the price you pay for your location. You have to take the good with the bad. It is like the AU park people who love their grid streets and proximity but get mad when people use those streets to get to where they are going. You can't have a grid, live near where people are going and then want to block the streets.

[Anonymous]

People also may have multiple houses, cars and addresses. My daughters car is registered where car is most of the time.in Maryland in my driveway right now. She has a NYS license and lives in Boston. The car is in Maryland, we still have an address in NY and she is going to school in Boston where she does not have a car.

As a student she is not currently employed and did not file a tax return in 2017. She is 18.

So a noisybuddie like you claims she is a non-resident of some place, well where is she a resident.

BTW Maryland has good schools so why game a system for VA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1. Boundary fraud is extremely commonplace, and residency fraud is probably not quite as common, but not a rare event either.

I was a class parent and had to collect contact info from parents in our all in-boundary PK3 class--one parent gave me a fake address with the wrong zip code.

Why would you need addresses as a class parent? Phone/email is all I collect as the room parent at my DC's school. Addresses are private and that's doing too much.

PP here and I don’t think I specifically requested addresses--there were a couple of us class parents, and I’m not sure why this info was requested. All I know is that the class was supposed to be 100% IB for PK3, but it really wasn’t. We live in a very small catchment area for the school, and so you basically know who lives in the neighborhood and who doesn’t.

[Anonymous]

You think you know the residency stories of all your kids' classmates, but don't necessarily. Parents like to start residency whispering campaigns against other parents. We became targets when divorcing, living separately part of the week. We were investigated for residency fraud and cleared with a Prek3 kid. Worth it to squelch busybodies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You think you know the residency stories of all your kids' classmates, but don't necessarily. Parents like to start residency whispering campaigns against other parents. We became targets when divorcing, living separately part of the week. We were investigated for residency fraud and cleared with a Prek3 kid. Worth it to squelch busybodies.

They will be harsher on the PK3 parents - it's a very valuable seat and everyone is jockeying for that seat. I would hope OSSE concentrates their resources on rooting out PK fraudsters first.

[Anonymous]

So you were going through circumstances where it possibly looked like residency fraud to an outsider but, in fact, wasn't. Someone reported you, either for legitimate reasons or because of a vendetta or nosiness. After a short, fairly painless investigation, you were cleared. What's the problem? System worked. Might be they catch others who similarly appear to be fraudulent and are, in fact, fraudulent. I'm both surprised they investigated at all, and glad to hear it was reasonably easy for you to show you had legitimate resident status.

Anonymous wrote:You think you know the residency stories of all your kids' classmates, but don't necessarily. Parents like to start residency whispering campaigns against other parents. We became targets when divorcing, living separately part of the week. We were investigated for residency fraud and cleared with a Prek3 kid. Worth it to squelch busybodies.

[Anonymous]

NP. If parents want to call the tips hotline privately, fine. I don't like the way busybodies whisper about other parents' residency at our EotP school, or come here seeking to oust suspected residency cheaters either.

I've advised other parents to knock if off in the past and will do so in future.