Md. & Va. tags at Amidon

[Anonymous]

I have a neighbor who's been rocking PA plates for 2 years without the exemption sticker. Not sure license plates are the definitive signifier of residency.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For the 20 millionth time picking up a child in car in a car with MD or Virginia tags is not definitive proof of anything. Maybe we should have a law that says only custodial parents can pick up their children.

In individual cases, this may be true. But a large number of MD cars, for example, picking up and dropping off, suggests that there is some amount of residency fraud going on. It's interesting, for example, that schools where you would expect to see high levels of nannies picking up children in their own vehicles (e.g., Janney, Mann) actually have relatively low anecdotal numbers of MD plated vehicles dropping or retrieving students. Other schools, particularly those who draw their students from around the city (where it may be easier for a fraudster to fly below the radar because the school-neighborhood identity isn't as strong) have higher numbers of out of state cars.

84% of kids at Mann are in-bounds. At Amidon, it's 82%. Not a huge difference.

Some school communities are very diligent in ferreting out and reporting fraud. Fraudster families don't last very long at Janney, for example.

I'm not so sure.

According to the OSSE June 2015 report posted above, in SY 2014-15 OSSE received 88 reports of possible residency fraud; 70 for charters and 12 for all of DCPS.

The year before the total number of reports was 38.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/OSSE%27s%20Residency%20Report%20June%202015%20FINAL%20to%20OPLA%205%2028%2015%20%282%29.pdf

Interesting, only 2 verified cases

[Anonymous]

^^^, Yeah, so that means they did nothing. Reporting is wasting your time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^, Yeah, so that means they did nothing. Reporting is wasting your time.

Or you need therapy. So much therapy. So much that we are not qualified to give you, sweetie. Please. I hope you get some help.

And eat a sandwich.

[Anonymous]

I wonder how exhaustive the investigations are. I can think of 2 cases at my DC's last school where I know for a fact the families were not living in DC (no parents are divorced, nanny/grandma picks them up/ house is being remodeled excuses). I guess the school gets extra funding so it is what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how exhaustive the investigations are. I can think of 2 cases at my DC's last school where I know for a fact the families were not living in DC (no parents are divorced, nanny/grandma picks them up/ house is being remodeled excuses). I guess the school gets extra funding so it is what it is.

I myself wonder at the kind of woman who worries exhaustively that some children might be from maryland, enough that she notices their parent's license plates, reports them, stalks them when the findings aren't to her liking. As I said before, as someone whose child has a friend who is in a very housing insecure situation, desperately poor, and is sometimes at a Maryland address, it depresses the hell out of me that you make it your life's mission to upset children like this. Because, "cheating."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how exhaustive the investigations are. I can think of 2 cases at my DC's last school where I know for a fact the families were not living in DC (no parents are divorced, nanny/grandma picks them up/ house is being remodeled excuses). I guess the school gets extra funding so it is what it is.

The link above documents what happens when they get a report.

I think very few people actually make calls to the hotline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how exhaustive the investigations are. I can think of 2 cases at my DC's last school where I know for a fact the families were not living in DC (no parents are divorced, nanny/grandma picks them up/ house is being remodeled excuses). I guess the school gets extra funding so it is what it is.

I myself wonder at the kind of woman who worries exhaustively that some children might be from maryland, enough that she notices their parent's license plates, reports them, stalks them when the findings aren't to her liking. As I said before, as someone whose child has a friend who is in a very housing insecure situation, desperately poor, and is sometimes at a Maryland address, it depresses the hell out of me that you make it your life's mission to upset children like this. Because, "cheating."

You're replying to the wrong person. My child had 1 whose family is living it up in a suburban McMansion. The other got into the pre-common lottery through "connections" and has since moved to MD. Nice families and I like them but if they are caught they deserve to face consequences

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how exhaustive the investigations are. I can think of 2 cases at my DC's last school where I know for a fact the families were not living in DC (no parents are divorced, nanny/grandma picks them up/ house is being remodeled excuses). I guess the school gets extra funding so it is what it is.

I myself wonder at the kind of woman who worries exhaustively that some children might be from maryland, enough that she notices their parent's license plates, reports them, stalks them when the findings aren't to her liking. As I said before, as someone whose child has a friend who is in a very housing insecure situation, desperately poor, and is sometimes at a Maryland address, it depresses the hell out of me that you make it your life's mission to upset children like this. Because, "cheating."

PP, I do believe you are depressed. They make colorful pills that can alleviate your issues. Until fully medicated, please invoke your editor when posting here; nonsensical gibberish is not solicited.

[Anonymous]

"Invoke my editor?" Let me guess, underemployed, with a stem degree?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^, Yeah, so that means they did nothing. Reporting is wasting your time.

Or you need therapy. So much therapy. So much that we are not qualified to give you, sweetie. Please. I hope you get some help.

And eat a sandwich.

Notice how the same folks try to shut down inquiries into residency fraud, just like apologists for the outrageous Duke Ellington cost over-runs try to deflect criticism. Constant excuses, lame explanations that don't add up, intimations of racial bias, and attacking the motivations of critics in other ways. Always the same refrain: "Nothing to see here, folks. Stop wasting your time. Get some therapy. Snitches get stitches. Go along to get along. You just don't understand the ways of DC."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how exhaustive the investigations are. I can think of 2 cases at my DC's last school where I know for a fact the families were not living in DC (no parents are divorced, nanny/grandma picks them up/ house is being remodeled excuses). I guess the school gets extra funding so it is what it is.

I myself wonder at the kind of woman who worries exhaustively that some children might be from maryland, enough that she notices their parent's license plates, reports them, stalks them when the findings aren't to her liking. As I said before, as someone whose child has a friend who is in a very housing insecure situation, desperately poor, and is sometimes at a Maryland address, it depresses the hell out of me that you make it your life's mission to upset children like this. Because, "cheating."

You're replying to the wrong person. My child had 1 whose family is living it up in a suburban McMansion. The other got into the pre-common lottery through "connections" and has since moved to MD. Nice families and I like them but if they are caught they deserve to face consequences

If someone has moved to MD, they can't remain in DCPS or a charter (except under circumstances when they pay tuition and there no DC resident in the lottery is getting shut out). I'd love to see statistics on how many DCPS/charter student families ACTUALLY are billed and pay tuition.

[Anonymous]

^^OSSE has started producing a report on this. The one for 2014-15 is on its website.

[Anonymous]

Do schools receive tax payer funds for students who are paying tuition?