Reporting a family in school outside of their neighborhood...

[Anonymous]

We have friends who stayed in their home school even after they moved. They had permission from the county. Basically, you don't know that they didn't file and receive permission to stay.

[Anonymous]

I'm assuming this is FCPS, I'm guessing haycock is the school at issue.
Here is the fairfax policy-http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/8TPJAK4C3EDA/$file/R2230.pdf

they can finish the year. Next year the older kid can get a 'senior' transfer, and the younger kid can get a sibling transfer. Then the year after the younger kid will get senior transfer.

[Anonymous]

Maybe if all schools everywhere were equally funded we wouldn't have these issues.

Agitate for change. It's not these kid's fault their country doesn't give a fuck about education.

[Anonymous]

MYOB.

BTW we were allowed to finish the year in our old school because we were moving within 100 days of the end of the year.

Leave people alone OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MYOB.

BTW we were allowed to finish the year in our old school because we were moving within 100 days of the end of the year.

Leave people alone OP.

OP already knows that isn't the case. They moved out of zone in the fall. If these people have a legitimate reason to be in the out of bounds school, then that will come out. If they don't then that needs to be corrected. There is no harm in letting the process work as it should. OP should give her tip to the proper channels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op again -- I should have said more...so I basically know that the mom targeted our neighborhood specifically because it is close to Metro (they don't have a car) and because the bus for the school has a stop in our neighborhood (which is specifically for magnet kids) so they should not be on the bus to be begin with. She wanted her kids to stay at the former school because they like the school and so they could stay with their friends. BTW, the schools are the same (on paper, demo's, test scores) and her I"m not trying to be a hater -- I know it sounds like it -- and to be honest, if my kids weren't in this magnet, I might try to find a way to work them into a better neighboring school. BUT the influences on my kids aren't great. Again, you'll say, that's life and it is. But we've got a few years left of this and I'm less than inclined to let it slide if it's knowingly breaking the rules. Sorry. Not sorry.

No, you should not have said more. It is weird to be this obsessed with your neighbors.

MYOB and stop telling the world about this family's details. You don't like her and you don't like her kids and that is your motive.

[Anonymous]

I love this board for this reason. People can post anonymously, trying to get a feel for things and talk it out and others swoop in -- again, anonymously -- to judge and people go back and forth get really ugly and respond in ways they never would in person or their name were attached to a post. It's great entertainment.

While OP may be misguided, some of the responses are dialed up a bit. The OP is not telling the world, she is sharing with a regional parenting forum on an individual thread -- again anonymously.

[Anonymous]

My guess is that you actually DON'T know the details that you claim to know. There are MANY situations in which families are permitted to stay - even at overcrowded schools.

You said that you don't like the kids' behavior, but did you stop to think that maybe their kid has an IEP in place at the old school and it would be more harmful to pull him/her out, introducing him/her to new counselors/therapists/etc.

Who knows? But I really can't imagine running to the school and telling them bc you don't like an elementary school kid. That seems kind of pathetic.

Maybe they broke rules. I'm not a fan of rule-breakers. But in this situation, I'd stay out of it. You may be doing more harm than good to a child that you know very little about.

[Anonymous]

OP - Thanks guys for the input. Enjoy your summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MYOB.

I can imagine what kind of neighbor you would have been in a tougher time with real opportunities...

Nazi Germany's, Stasi Germany, cultural revolution China,

Our Principal continually sends notices for parents to report. They have a full-time employee devoted to residency fraud.

We are at a N Arlington school and the cheaters mean bigger classes and less resources.

Report them.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm assuming this is FCPS, I'm guessing haycock is the school at issue.
Here is the fairfax policy-http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/8TPJAK4C3EDA/$file/R2230.pdf

they can finish the year. Next year the older kid can get a 'senior' transfer, and the younger kid can get a sibling transfer. Then the year after the younger kid will get senior transfer.

Doubtful it is Haycock, as Haycock district is near the metro.

[Anonymous]

FCPS has attendance officers. Just call the school or Gatehouse and report it and they'll look into it. If they really bought a house and moved it should be open and shut, though nothing is going to happen until September anyway because they would be finding out about it with less than 100 days of school left.

[Anonymous]

Sneaking on the bus? I don't think this is possible. Usually there is a human who sits at the front of the bus who has eyes.

[Anonymous]

OP, in Arlington, if you reside in catchment X and you move within the county to catchment Y still within the county, you might be allowed via internal transfer to remain in the X school. Similarly, if you are in catchment X, are in a special program in a catchment X school, and move to catchment Y and again still within the county, you may be able to stay. And if you live in catchment X and you want a special program within the county but within catchment Y, but again still within the county, APS can give you an internal transfer. Similar but more restrictive in Alexandria; you can only automatically transfer out of two Alex elementary schools into others (Tucker due to schedule, MV due to language-immersion), and the latter only in certain grades. Fairfax is different. Bottom line is, even if you see what looks like an out-of-bounds commute, you might easily be wrong.

[Anonymous]

And, op, how does this affect you regardless of what you suspect?