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

[Anonymous]

When I show my residency docs, I don't see anyone checking the address against the map. Of course, I live on the same street as the school, so maybe it's because it is obvious.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hi. I'm a DC resident, but I'm paying for private school because my in-boundary school is no good and I struck out in the DCPS lottery. I'm considering renting an apartment in-boundary of a good DCPS school, which would be less expensive than what I'm paying for private school, just so we have an in-boundary address. I wouldn't move in. Maybe I would sublet, or AirBNB, if allowed, to recoup some of the rent money, or just leave it empty. Is that sort of thing kosher? It's not like would be lying about my DC residency, I pay plenty of taxes to DC, my conscience is clean.

No. Residency means you live there. DCPS can even do a home check to make sure you and your kids actually live there -- ie, eat and sleep there.

Why have you decided your "conscience is clean" before knowing the rules?

Is there a source for this? Just curious, since I've never heard this before. I know of at least one family at my kid's school who is doing this (i.e., using the address of a property they own, but which only relatives occupy currently).

They do it at Shepherd Elementary.

This is popular at Brent Elementary as well.

[Anonymous]

And Hearst.

[Anonymous]

Almost everywhere. For the time being, if multi-generation families can produce a range of residency documents, DCPS leaves them alone. I see this changing eventually, 5 or 10 years down the road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi. I'm a DC resident, but I'm paying for private school because my in-boundary school is no good and I struck out in the DCPS lottery. I'm considering renting an apartment in-boundary of a good DCPS school, which would be less expensive than what I'm paying for private school, just so we have an in-boundary address. I wouldn't move in. Maybe I would sublet, or AirBNB, if allowed, to recoup some of the rent money, or just leave it empty. Is that sort of thing kosher? It's not like would be lying about my DC residency, I pay plenty of taxes to DC, my conscience is clean.

No. Residency means you live there. DCPS can even do a home check to make sure you and your kids actually live there -- ie, eat and sleep there.

Why have you decided your "conscience is clean" before knowing the rules?

Is there a source for this? Just curious, since I've never heard this before. I know of at least one family at my kid's school who is doing this (i.e., using the address of a property they own, but which only relatives occupy currently).

They do it at Shepherd Elementary.

This is popular at Brent Elementary as well.

I thought at Shepherd, they do home visits to promote family engagement, not to snuff out cheaters? At least, that’s the way the program has been described in the weekly newsletters. Maybe there’s a dual purpose?

[Anonymous]

That PP meant using a relative’s or someone else’s address is happens at Sheperd.

[Anonymous]

Hearst does home visits.

[Anonymous]

Teacher home visits and dcps visiting a home to verify residency are two different things with different objectives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher home visits and dcps visiting a home to verify residency are two different things with different objectives.

And they are done by two different people (residency checks are done by the school registrar or a central office person).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And Hearst.

About 1600 apartments are planned to be built within walking distance of Hearst in the next four years. In fact, at a community meeting this week, the developer of the Fannie Me site said they will market to parents wanting access to the best public schools in DC, so it’s not going to get any easier for Hearst. On top of that, DC has liberalized so-called accessory dwelling zoning rules, which will bring more basement and garage “residences” to the market in upper NW neighborhoods for rental. The latter would be perfect as an “address de Terre” for unscrupulous families wanting an address in the districts like Hearst, Janney,etc.

[Anonymous]

People who call the residency fraud hotline to offer anonymous tips about kids enrolled under IB grandparents' addresses won't find joy in DCPS. But, hey, you might get a little kid or two tossed out of a school for that particular form of fraud in an upscale suburb of another East Coast city. Go for it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who call the residency fraud hotline to offer anonymous tips about kids enrolled under IB grandparents' addresses won't find joy in DCPS. But, hey, you might get a little kid or two tossed out of a school for that particular form of fraud in an upscale suburb of another East Coast city. Go for it!

and that would be entirely the fault of the parent who decided to be deceptive, not the tipster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know of a study that's looked at the possibility of overcrowding driving high SES parents out.

That said, there is no over-capacity DCPS where the FARMs rate has been rising year on year. Not one. The opposite seems to be true - the more crowded a school gets, the lower the FARMs rate (e.g Janney and Lafayette).

Not true. I teach at a bottom 40. Roughly 30 kids per gen .edu class. We are overcrowded too, it’s just that no one cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know of a study that's looked at the possibility of overcrowding driving high SES parents out.

That said, there is no over-capacity DCPS where the FARMs rate has been rising year on year. Not one. The opposite seems to be true - the more crowded a school gets, the lower the FARMs rate (e.g Janney and Lafayette).

Not true. I teach at a bottom 40. Roughly 30 kids per gen .edu class. We are overcrowded too, it’s just that no one cares.

+1. I believe it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know of a study that's looked at the possibility of overcrowding driving high SES parents out.

That said, there is no over-capacity DCPS where the FARMs rate has been rising year on year. Not one. The opposite seems to be true - the more crowded a school gets, the lower the FARMs rate (e.g Janney and Lafayette).

Not true. I teach at a bottom 40. Roughly 30 kids per gen .edu class. We are overcrowded too, it’s just that no one cares.

Yup. Same.