DCPS Lottery and students from Maryland
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Anonymous
| The issue of DCPS students who reside in Maryland and somehow attend DC schools (including ones for which there is more demand than places in the lottery) is dicussed on DCUM periodically. DCPS says they are crackikng down, but that's debatable. Spotted at Hearst E.S. a car with Maryland "Fraternal Order of Police" license plates picking up students this afternoon. Maybe there's a legitimate reason (caregiver? friend? just moved to DC in last 30 days?!), but if not, it's particularly galling that someone associated with a police department is playing residency dodge-ball. |
Anonymous
| NOT AGAIN!!!!!!!! |
Anonymous
Bad Boys, bad boys. Whatchya gonna do? Whatchya gonna do when the PTA comes for you.... 
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Anonymous
Better the PTA than the police. It would seem some cops are complicit in DCPS scamming. |
Anonymous
| I wonder about the cops at our school too. Why do they ALWAYS do pickup in their squad car? The kids in the back where they usually seat criminals. |
Anonymous
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It is against the law.
That statement was used in South Africa to justify the group areas act. DC has a more sophistcated version. |
Anonymous
That way they learn that police is not your friend and will remember it always. Some lessons need to learnt young |
Anonymous
What do you mean by your SA statement, PP? |
Anonymous
Let's be serious. The car wasn't an official police vehicle. It was a white sedan with a Maryland FoP vanity/affinity license plate. That usually means the driver or a family member is a police officer. It would be pretty outrageous if a police officer is engaged in residency fraud in DCPS. |
Anonymous
You're kidding, right? Cops show up and flash their badges when it's time to show ID. Happens all the time. |
Anonymous
| Can someone post the link to the online form for reporting residency fraud to DCPS? I can't seem to find it by googling. It shouldn't be this hard. I am thinking with the long wait lists for in bounds families for many schools, this may be the year more DC residents/ tax payers stand up for themselves. |
Anonymous
| Wait, I don't think I get the issue here. A dad picked up his kid in his MD police car? What screams MD resident cheater with this? Many people live in DC and work in MD, right? Am I missing something? |
Anonymous
| You guys realize that kids have two parents. Parents get divorced and one parent can live in MD while the other lives in DC. That's not fraud. Nor is it fraud for grandma, grandpa, nanny, aunt, uncle to pick a child up. These are your kids friends and classmates you want to report. There is no reason to assume they or their parents have done something wrong. |
Anonymous
Actually it is fraud unless the kid's parents have joint custody. Residency is where the kid lives, not where a non-custodial parent lives. |
Anonymous
| Living across from a school with a whole lot of Maryland plates coming and going, I find it very hard to believe that this is the case in all but a few cases. |