Renting an apartment to be inbounds

[Anonymous]

I don’t know where anyone gets off thinking this is fraud or would require lying. It’s completely allowed by DCPS rules through the terminal grade. Anyone who has a problem with me doing it knows exactly what they can kiss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not just on Hill.

Wasn't an audit done a few years back? Caused controversy, some Duke Ellington families had to pay back tuition with interest, no?

There is no boundary law for DC residents though, that’s for out of state. If you cheat, you’re just sent back to your IB. However, what OP laid out is perfectly legal. And doesn’t even have to end the year in the apartment, just live there during registration period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Np- You won’t get report cards mailed to you.

We get ours online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pre-covid, our Hill Elementary school did in-home visits before the school year started.

The teachers made appointments and showed up at your house.

I assume this will resume soon.

They can still do this. Kids move OOB and within DC all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pre-covid, our Hill Elementary school did in-home visits before the school year started.

The teachers made appointments and showed up at your house.

I assume this will resume soon.

Home visits are voluntary in DCPS. We arranged to do our PreS3 and PreK4 "home visit" at the school without difficulty. We own and reside in a house in-boundary for our DCPS ES, I just don't want school officials in my home. Home visits by teachers aren't part of residency fraud investigations.

[Anonymous]

Lying and cheating isn't what most parents want to teach their children but your mileage may vary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lying and cheating isn't what most parents want to teach their children but your mileage may vary.

It's certainly lying to say this is not allowed by DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lying and cheating isn't what most parents want to teach their children but your mileage may vary.

"Your mileage may vary" is such an annoying expression. Please stop using it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lying and cheating isn't what most parents want to teach their children but your mileage may vary.

"Your mileage may vary" is such an annoying expression. Please stop using it.

YMMV

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your complaint is with DCPS, not with families doing this. DCPS says this is perfectly legal.

If you want to complaint about fraud, complain about the many many many Maryland folks who enroll their kids in DCPS schools, and DCPS doesn't do a damn thing about it. At least that's actually against the rules.

Complaint against all fraud, DCPS can decide for themselves.

Except renting in-bounds and then moving is not fraud. DCPS explicitly allows this, under their own policy. I agree that the policy is stupid, but because that’s their policy, people doing this are well within their rights.

[Anonymous]

the policy is not stupid. it for example lets kids who move 2 boundaries over in the 4th grade stay at their same school.

[Anonymous]

Always amusing the way people bend over backwards making excuses for Maryland kids illegally dropped at NE schools as their parents drive downtown and then go insane over DC residents following explicitly stated DCPS rules by not disrupting their kids’ lives after moving out of boundary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Always amusing the way people bend over backwards making excuses for Maryland kids illegally dropped at NE schools as their parents drive downtown and then go insane over DC residents following explicitly stated DCPS rules by not disrupting their kids’ lives after moving out of boundary.

DCUM always attacks the OP. Just try posting you’re a Marylander using DC schools and see how it goes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your complaint is with DCPS, not with families doing this. DCPS says this is perfectly legal.

If you want to complaint about fraud, complain about the many many many Maryland folks who enroll their kids in DCPS schools, and DCPS doesn't do a damn thing about it. At least that's actually against the rules.

Complaint against all fraud, DCPS can decide for themselves.

Except renting in-bounds and then moving is not fraud. DCPS explicitly allows this, under their own policy. I agree that the policy is stupid, but because that’s their policy, people doing this are well within their rights.

Parents must also be within their rents to own in-bounds, then move OOB to another property they own. But this has only been true for a few years, right?

I can see why parents might want to keep their moves under wraps. With few desirable in-bounds schools in the District, particularly past elementary school, other parents can be vicious, starting whispering campaigns about fellow parents in school communities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the policy is not stupid. it for example lets kids who move 2 boundaries over in the 4th grade stay at their same school.

The way it works everywhere else in the country is, you move, you switch schools. This is much more rational than you move during K, you stay at the school through 5th.