MD residents in DCPS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just really cannot believe this is the problem that several hysterical posters make it out to be. Between separate households from divorce or unmarried parents; nannies, caregivers, and other relatives doing pickup; grandfathered in residents from other states paying tuition; military or other legal temporary residents - how much is this REALLY and TRULY an issue? Is there any hard and fast data? and I am not at all interested in your anecdotes of the situation you may be observing (which tells you nothing about the legality of what you think you may be witnessing). Who are these school officials who say it's not uncommon? Does DCPS perceive this as a problem?

Agree and well said, PP. This topic comes up every so often with some hysterical poster, and the same good points are always calmly made. Yawn.

Except now there is a concrete example for the world to read about...the cocaine toting child from Thomson Elementary. Both parents/guardians live in MD. Unless some actual investigating takes place we won't know if this is the rare instance or the tip of the proverbial iceberg. And I can't hep but to suspect that the people who AREN'T concerned with this issue are perpetrators of the fraud and just trying to deflect attention from the problem by calling everyone hysterical for caring about how our tax dollars are spent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is old news. I've seen a number of threads on this topic. I am a MD resident, my kid attends a DCPS school. We do it LEGALLY. We pay the stated non-resident tuition and do not use any DC address to game the system.

Wow, really? Isn't the law that you can only do that if there are no DC residents on the waiting list for that school? All the good public schools (DCPS and charter) have waitlists. The only ones that don't are just awful!

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First poster here - the MD resident - Anyone can enter the DCPS lottery and get in, even ahead of District residents. DC's school has a long waiting list (although it was much, much shorter when we started). The charters are different. They only accept non-residents if there are remaining slots after DC residents are in. We entered DCPS for language immersion. There is only ONE immersion program in ALL of PG County...unbelievable!

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I remember years ago, maybe 3 chancellor's ago, they did a very large audit and started making you bring multiple documents to prove residency. My sister lives in Montgomery county after moving from the District. She said it was loads easier to register there than DC. Not sure I could take having to submit more documents.