Tell me how this residency requirement works

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL.

If this is a sincere question, no you can't legally claim your rental property as you home for school residency purposes. That's why they want to see your pay stub, drivers license, etc, and not just your utility bill. But no, if you've already submitted paperwork for this year, you're totally not going to get caught over the next school year. They only check once.

I am saved because my now rented house in DC has the same address on my paystub and drivers license even though I lay my head every night in a different state.

You may be "saved" but you're still committing fraud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL.

If this is a sincere question, no you can't legally claim your rental property as you home for school residency purposes. That's why they want to see your pay stub, drivers license, etc, and not just your utility bill. But no, if you've already submitted paperwork for this year, you're totally not going to get caught over the next school year. They only check once.

I am saved because my now rented house in DC has the same address on my paystub and drivers license even though I lay my head every night in a different state.

You may be "saved" but you're still committing fraud.

Thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL.

If this is a sincere question, no you can't legally claim your rental property as you home for school residency purposes. That's why they want to see your pay stub, drivers license, etc, and not just your utility bill. But no, if you've already submitted paperwork for this year, you're totally not going to get caught over the next school year. They only check once.

I am saved because my now rented house in DC has the same address on my paystub and drivers license even though I lay my head every night in a different state.

You may be "saved" but you're still committing fraud.

+1 I hope you get caught and prosecuted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL.

If this is a sincere question, no you can't legally claim your rental property as you home for school residency purposes. That's why they want to see your pay stub, drivers license, etc, and not just your utility bill. But no, if you've already submitted paperwork for this year, you're totally not going to get caught over the next school year. They only check once.

I am saved because my now rented house in DC has the same address on my paystub and drivers license even though I lay my head every night in a different state.

You may be "saved" but you're still committing fraud.

+1 I hope you get caught and prosecuted.

Thank you for your comment.

[Anonymous]

If someone asks you where you live, and you answer honestly and not coyly, that is where your child should go to school. You and your child sleep in silver spring? your kid should go to school in silver spring. it doesn't really matter if you pay property taxes on a house you own in DC. You don't live there. Maybe someone else lives there, and registers their kid at school in DC. They are entitled to send their kid to DC public/charter school by virtue of their actually living in DC. You are not entitled to send your kid to DC public/charter school because YOU DO NOT. It isn't a question of where you pay property taxes, because you could, theoretically, pay property taxes in a dozen different school districts or more. It is a question of where you LIVE. Residency is a legal question that is rooted in where you intend to live, not where your tax dollars are. If you move mid-year, you may be allowed to stay in your current school at the discretion of the school, but really, you should move your kid to the new school. If you move before or at the beginning of the school year, your child should attend their new local school, or go to private school if that doesn't suit you.

I honestly don't see why people have such a problem with this. If you lived in Manhattan and in the middle of the school year your family moved to Hoboken, NJ, you wouldn't ask if your kid could keep attending a PS in NYC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL.

If this is a sincere question, no you can't legally claim your rental property as you home for school residency purposes. That's why they want to see your pay stub, drivers license, etc, and not just your utility bill. But no, if you've already submitted paperwork for this year, you're totally not going to get caught over the next school year. They only check once.

Ahhhh, no. Residency is checked EVERY YEAR when you register. It will be verified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL.

If this is a sincere question, no you can't legally claim your rental property as you home for school residency purposes. That's why they want to see your pay stub, drivers license, etc, and not just your utility bill. But no, if you've already submitted paperwork for this year, you're totally not going to get caught over the next school year. They only check once.

Ahhhh, no. Residency is checked EVERY YEAR when you register. It will be verified.

They meant that if one enrolled on May 1 for SY 16-17 he/she are good to go until it's time to register for SY 17-18.

Unless of course there is a reason they decide to look into your residency paperwork again (someone rats you out).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If someone asks you where you live, and you answer honestly and not coyly, that is where your child should go to school. You and your child sleep in silver spring? your kid should go to school in silver spring. it doesn't really matter if you pay property taxes on a house you own in DC. You don't live there. Maybe someone else lives there, and registers their kid at school in DC. They are entitled to send their kid to DC public/charter school by virtue of their actually living in DC. You are not entitled to send your kid to DC public/charter school because YOU DO NOT. It isn't a question of where you pay property taxes, because you could, theoretically, pay property taxes in a dozen different school districts or more. It is a question of where you LIVE. Residency is a legal question that is rooted in where you intend to live, not where your tax dollars are. If you move mid-year, you may be allowed to stay in your current school at the discretion of the school, but really, you should move your kid to the new school. If you move before or at the beginning of the school year, your child should attend their new local school, or go to private school if that doesn't suit you.

I honestly don't see why people have such a problem with this. If you lived in Manhattan and in the middle of the school year your family moved to Hoboken, NJ, you wouldn't ask if your kid could keep attending a PS in NYC.

I share custody with my ex, and my child divides his time between us roughly evenly, when he's not visiting his grandparents out of state (which he does for weeks on end). So where does he live and where should he go to school? How about wherever one of us has all the right residency documents, pays taxes and is comfortable with a public school. You're certainly not the arbiter of residency rulings; you're just the guy or gal determined to bust families who, on the face of things, are committing residency fraud. Parents need to comply with a particular school system's residency rules, not those set by a random poster on DCUM. I honestly don't see why people have such a problem with others leading lives where a child's residency isn't as easy to pin down as in their own family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If someone asks you where you live, and you answer honestly and not coyly, that is where your child should go to school. You and your child sleep in silver spring? your kid should go to school in silver spring. it doesn't really matter if you pay property taxes on a house you own in DC. You don't live there. Maybe someone else lives there, and registers their kid at school in DC. They are entitled to send their kid to DC public/charter school by virtue of their actually living in DC. You are not entitled to send your kid to DC public/charter school because YOU DO NOT. It isn't a question of where you pay property taxes, because you could, theoretically, pay property taxes in a dozen different school districts or more. It is a question of where you LIVE. Residency is a legal question that is rooted in where you intend to live, not where your tax dollars are. If you move mid-year, you may be allowed to stay in your current school at the discretion of the school, but really, you should move your kid to the new school. If you move before or at the beginning of the school year, your child should attend their new local school, or go to private school if that doesn't suit you.

I honestly don't see why people have such a problem with this. If you lived in Manhattan and in the middle of the school year your family moved to Hoboken, NJ, you wouldn't ask if your kid could keep attending a PS in NYC.

I share custody with my ex, and my child divides his time between us roughly evenly, when he's not visiting his grandparents out of state (which he does for weeks on end). So where does he live and where should he go to school? How about wherever one of us has all the right residency documents, pays taxes and is comfortable with a public school. You're certainly not the arbiter of residency rulings; you're just the guy or gal determined to bust families who, on the face of things, are committing residency fraud. Parents need to comply with a particular school system's residency rules, not those set by a random poster on DCUM. I honestly don't see why people have such a problem with others leading lives where a child's residency isn't as easy to pin down as in their own family.

First of all, I am not a person who obsesses about this. I think that the poster who followed someone home probably acted illegally in some way during that whole operation and was way out of line regrdless. I have never reported someone for residency fraud, and couldn't even pick someone out at my kid's school who MIGHT be "cheating" the system. Second, the circumstances you describe are COMPLETELY different than what the OP describes. The OP said that his/her family is contemplating moving out of DC, and asked if she could use the address of a house that he/she will rent out to someone else, while actually LIVING in Maryland. That's fraud. In the situation you describe, you and your partner make a decision based on what's best for your kid and your lives. Your child is legally entitled to go to school at either address; the child of the OP is not. You can't compare these two situations, because they aren't the same in any way.

[Anonymous]

OK, but I can compare any situation motivating some busybody to call the DC public school residency fraud hotline, which happened to us last year (presumably because of dad's MD plates and a whispering campaign within the school community when were merely separated across state lines). Thankfully, the investigator we dealt with couldn't have been more professional and reasonable, even supportive. I'm in favor of setting high residency bars to clear, but not vigilantes hounding families with unusual, or even exceptional, domicile arrangements. For a few months, my kid lived with a relative in our DC residence but not us (one of us was deployed abroad at the time), which threw the local residency hounds for a loop. These residency threads invariably take place in an echo chamber. Your family isn't like mine (but should be), and I'm going to get you because (read between the lines) I'm jealous that you have access to a strong DC public school, no matter what else might be true....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay I know there are some eagle eyed, Maryland license plate following parents out there so I'm sure you are very well-versed on all of the laws regarding this. We currently live in DC and our daughter is in a DC Charter School but we really want to move to Maryland. If you move once the school year starts then how does that work? Or another possibility is moving now but renting out the house. In other words isn't it really about paying taxes in DC? As long as we don't sell the house it doesn't really matter where we live, correct?

Wrong. If you use the address of a house you are renting out, while actually living in Maryland, you are committing residency fraud. Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay I know there are some eagle eyed, Maryland license plate following parents out there so I'm sure you are very well-versed on all of the laws regarding this. We currently live in DC and our daughter is in a DC Charter School but we really want to move to Maryland. If you move once the school year starts then how does that work? Or another possibility is moving now but renting out the house. In other words isn't it really about paying taxes in DC? As long as we don't sell the house it doesn't really matter where we live, correct?

Wrong. If you use the address of a house you are renting out, while actually living in Maryland, you are committing residency fraud. Period.

Ask DC police officers Alan and Candice Hill http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/DC-Attorney-General-Suing-Two-Police-Officers-for-Claiming-False-DC-Residency-and-Sending-Their-Children-to-School-For-Free-307056701.html

[Anonymous]

Two or three years ago parents living in Maryland were forced to come pick up their child in the middle of the school day. She was taken out of class in front of her friends and left the school without the opportunity to say goodbye or explain. Don't be those parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two or three years ago parents living in Maryland were forced to come pick up their child in the middle of the school day. She was taken out of class in front of her friends and left the school without the opportunity to say goodbye or explain. Don't be those parents.

They had no idea this was going to happen? No way.

[Anonymous]

If a person has all of the require documents required for residency, how would they prove the person lived somewhere else?