Here is how to transfer to any high school in the area

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I'm so curious about what the actual investigation entailed. It sounds like they were trying really hard not to find anything.

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No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

What I have put together from parents and online discussion is that approximately 6 of the 12 legit moved. Football *is* their life and if they rent, it’s just a matter of ending their lease in Woodbridge and getting an apartment in Kingstowne.

Don’t know about the others but they moved, or papered the file to FCPS’s satisfaction. You can rent a basement bedroom from a widow for $600/month and you have a lease and payments to match. These families are probably spending $5k-$10k on travel teams, camps, and training. They are already invested.

[Anonymous]

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No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

You're seriously underestimating the sacrifices kids and their families are willing to make to play on a specific high school sports team. Kids in this region do extreme commutes and their families pay tens of thousands of dollars in tuition to play for private school powerhouses. Renting in a specific public school zone for a year is a bargain in comparison.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

You're seriously underestimating the sacrifices kids and their families are willing to make to play on a specific high school sports team. Kids in this region do extreme commutes and their families pay tens of thousands of dollars in tuition to play for private school powerhouses. Renting in a specific public school zone for a year is a bargain in comparison.

Accurate. And the willingness to sacrifice as parents is why the county wide boundary adjustments will fail.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

What I have put together from parents and online discussion is that approximately 6 of the 12 legit moved. Football *is* their life and if they rent, it’s just a matter of ending their lease in Woodbridge and getting an apartment in Kingstowne.

Don’t know about the others but they moved, or papered the file to FCPS’s satisfaction. You can rent a basement bedroom from a widow for $600/month and you have a lease and payments to match. These families are probably spending $5k-$10k on travel teams, camps, and training. They are already invested.

I’m a former HSS football parent (my son graduated a few years ago).

There really isn’t travel tackle football, like there is soccer, volleyball, etc, and football tends to be a less expensive youth sport because in this area it attracts a less affluent crowd, but your point is valid: they only need the lease for four or five months (August through December), before the scrutiny dies off because football season is over. So maybe around $3,000 for rent. Then they can transfer back to Freedom after the first semester, or just commute to Hayfield to “finish their senior year”.

When my son was in 6th grade, we moved over winter break and the FCPS elementary school let us finish out the school year, but we had to provide our own transportation. We moved in-bounds for the secondary school, but were not in bounds for the ES he had been attending. This is fairly common, especially in the last year at a school.

While Hayfield is a solidly middle class school fed by diverse housing, there is a lot of poverty and non-nuclear family or living arrangements in southeastern Fairfax County so it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for a teenager to be living with “family friends”, or dad renting a basement. This would stand out in some of the richer areas, but it’s not uncommon down here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

What I have put together from parents and online discussion is that approximately 6 of the 12 legit moved. Football *is* their life and if they rent, it’s just a matter of ending their lease in Woodbridge and getting an apartment in Kingstowne.

Don’t know about the others but they moved, or papered the file to FCPS’s satisfaction. You can rent a basement bedroom from a widow for $600/month and you have a lease and payments to match. These families are probably spending $5k-$10k on travel teams, camps, and training. They are already invested.

That's not *residency*. The family actually has to be living in that basement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

What I have put together from parents and online discussion is that approximately 6 of the 12 legit moved. Football *is* their life and if they rent, it’s just a matter of ending their lease in Woodbridge and getting an apartment in Kingstowne.

Don’t know about the others but they moved, or papered the file to FCPS’s satisfaction. You can rent a basement bedroom from a widow for $600/month and you have a lease and payments to match. These families are probably spending $5k-$10k on travel teams, camps, and training. They are already invested.

6 of the 14? There are 12 from Prince William, 1 from a school in Maryland and 1 from a school in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

What I have put together from parents and online discussion is that approximately 6 of the 12 legit moved. Football *is* their life and if they rent, it’s just a matter of ending their lease in Woodbridge and getting an apartment in Kingstowne.

Don’t know about the others but they moved, or papered the file to FCPS’s satisfaction. You can rent a basement bedroom from a widow for $600/month and you have a lease and payments to match. These families are probably spending $5k-$10k on travel teams, camps, and training. They are already invested.

That's not *residency*. The family actually has to be living in that basement.

Or one parent and the football player, or the football player is temporarily living with a “family friend” because of a “bad home situation”.

[Anonymous]

Football season is short. The coach and fcps are hoping to "run out the clock" on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

What I have put together from parents and online discussion is that approximately 6 of the 12 legit moved. Football *is* their life and if they rent, it’s just a matter of ending their lease in Woodbridge and getting an apartment in Kingstowne.

Don’t know about the others but they moved, or papered the file to FCPS’s satisfaction. You can rent a basement bedroom from a widow for $600/month and you have a lease and payments to match. These families are probably spending $5k-$10k on travel teams, camps, and training. They are already invested.

That's not *residency*. The family actually has to be living in that basement.

Or one parent and the football player, or the football player is temporarily living with a “family friend” because of a “bad home situation”.

A home situation that bad warrants investigation by social services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Football season is short. The coach and fcps are hoping to "run out the clock" on this.

Definitely.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

What I have put together from parents and online discussion is that approximately 6 of the 12 legit moved. Football *is* their life and if they rent, it’s just a matter of ending their lease in Woodbridge and getting an apartment in Kingstowne.

Don’t know about the others but they moved, or papered the file to FCPS’s satisfaction. You can rent a basement bedroom from a widow for $600/month and you have a lease and payments to match. These families are probably spending $5k-$10k on travel teams, camps, and training. They are already invested.

That's not *residency*. The family actually has to be living in that basement.

Or one parent and the football player, or the football player is temporarily living with a “family friend” because of a “bad home situation”.

A home situation that bad warrants investigation by social services.

That will also take months. If the school social worker reports it.

Look, I’m not saying it’s right. It’s fraudulent. And it shouldn’t be allowed. I don’t think anyone on this thread is advocating for this. But the reality of the situation is the school administration and FCPS is complicit in this, so it will likely be allowed to continue.

[Anonymous]

Its all super fun and games until a kid from a much weaker team gets seriously injured in a 100-0 blowout.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! Not a darn thing. They’re all cleared. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/08/27/hayfield-football-investigation/

But people on this board assured us that there were going to be many arrests. Seems like the FCPS residency checks aren’t quite as robust as advertised. Maybe that’s why certain FCPS schools have such a low enrollment?

I'm curious about what the normal procedure is for these residency checks and what they did in this situation.

No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

Freedom and Hayfield are only about half an hour drive apart. I don't know about the parents of these specific students, but many families that live in the Freedom high school boundaries have parents that commute FAR longer to get to work. Relocating into Hayfield boundaries could have actually made sense from a work-commute perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow! Not a darn thing. They’re all cleared. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/08/27/hayfield-football-investigation/

But people on this board assured us that there were going to be many arrests. Seems like the FCPS residency checks aren’t quite as robust as advertised. Maybe that’s why certain FCPS schools have such a low enrollment?

I'm curious about what the normal procedure is for these residency checks and what they did in this situation.

No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

Freedom and Hayfield are only about half an hour drive apart. I don't know about the parents of these specific students, but many families that live in the Freedom high school boundaries have parents that commute FAR longer to get to work. Relocating into Hayfield boundaries could have actually made sense from a work-commute perspective.

Moving is expensive.
And, Rent in Hayfield area is like 1000 more per
month for equivalent apartment in Woodbridge.