Question re FCPS residency requirements

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an issue? Yet we allow students who don't even belong in the US to show up and get a free education. I know it's the law that they have to be educated, but it's a bad law that needs to be changed.

If those students weren't here, we probably wouldn't have folks trying to get out of low-performing schools with lots of FARMs and ESOL into higher-rated ones.

Seems like a hassle to lie about your address/residency. There is a car with a Madison High School sticker on it near me, and I am nowhere near Madison high school – what an effing pain in the ass if someone from my neighborhood is driving all the way to/from Madison high school daily! It is easily a 30 minute drive with light traffic.

Also, there are *plenty* of FARMS and poorly performing native-born Americans. Are they here/would they come here? Don’t know. My sister’s rural Virginia school district is almost all FARMS and they offer free preschool (or head start?) to everyone, and the schools are poorly rated on test scores as well.

[Anonymous]

There is a car with a Madison High School sticker on it near me, and I am nowhere near Madison high school – what an effing pain in the ass if someone from my neighborhood is driving all the way to/from Madison high school daily! It is easily a 30 minute drive with light traffic.

People do move and don't always remove stickers. FWIW, my kids have been out of high school for years. We drive old cars and still have stickers on them.

Also, car could belong to a staff member.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There is a car with a Madison High School sticker on it near me, and I am nowhere near Madison high school – what an effing pain in the ass if someone from my neighborhood is driving all the way to/from Madison high school daily! It is easily a 30 minute drive with light traffic.

People do move and don't always remove stickers. FWIW, my kids have been out of high school for years. We drive old cars and still have stickers on them.

Also, car could belong to a staff member.

Could be! Which is why I would never confront them, but I do wonder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/registration/general-registration-requirements

I just read through the requirements carefully and didn't see a rule pertaining to where the kid "lays his/her head" during the majority of the school week. Am I missing something? Where is that requirement in the FCPS law or rules?

Looks to me like the rules are about documents linking a parent to an address, car registration, drives license, deed, HUD buying docs, utilities bills etc. Sounds like a family that didn't officially rent out a condo (no lease, no payment paper trail) could swing residency at that address if they were very quiet about it.

I'm sure that pied a terre residency is real, but rare, in Fairfax. It would be a hassle to maintain. I don't have a problem with it if at least one parent owns the real property, pays all the relevant taxes, and ensures that the kid is well-prepared to attend school, with good attendance. Most of us probably think the same way, leaving us disinclined to tattle.

[Anonymous]

Looks to me like the rules are about documents linking a parent to an address, car registration, drives license, deed, HUD buying docs, utilities bills etc. Sounds like a family that didn't officially rent out a condo (no lease, no payment paper trail) could swing residency at that address if they were very quiet about it.

I've been told this by a divorced parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/registration/general-registration-requirements

I just read through the requirements carefully and didn't see a rule pertaining to where the kid "lays his/her head" during the majority of the school week. Am I missing something? Where is that requirement in the FCPS law or rules?

Looks to me like the rules are about documents linking a parent to an address, car registration, drives license, deed, HUD buying docs, utilities bills etc. Sounds like a family that didn't officially rent out a condo (no lease, no payment paper trail) could swing residency at that address if they were very quiet about it.

I'm sure that pied a terre residency is real, but rare, in Fairfax. It would be a hassle to maintain. I don't have a problem with it if at least one parent owns the real property, pays all the relevant taxes, and ensures that the kid is well-prepared to attend school, with good attendance. Most of us probably think the same way, leaving us disinclined to tattle.

Here, let me pull a quote from the link you provided:
"The enrolling parent and the student (natural or legally adoptive) must be physically residing in Fairfax County. A student is expected to attend the school assigned to your home address."

What part of "home address" do you not understand? No it doesn't say the specific words where someone lays his/her head. That is how FCPS interprets their statement above regarding a "home address." Do you define "home address" as a property where you do not actually live?

[Anonymous]

PP who turned in a FCPS HS student. Investigation was apparently done and kid still in school. So frustrating. Also student all over FB with statement of "my neighborhood {not in VA.} I live here now!

Apparently, FCPS doesn't care or maybe looks the other way. Open and shut case here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I turned in a HS kid whose parent was driving in daily from suburban Maryland and using relative's Fairfax address.
I heard back and was anonymously asked for some more details from a higher up truant officer but don't know outcome. Officer mentioned interviewing neighbors and actively catching parent drop off student.

This was going on for two years.

This is a bit of a different situation. If you live out of county, you CANNOT attend FCPS. Unless you pay tuition (or attend TJHSST).
It sounds as if this person is living in Fairfax County, but wishes to attend an out of boundary school.

[Anonymous]

We did this while my children were in ES. We had a condo and we rented it to my youngest brother. We used that address. My brother just got our mail and drove it to our home once a week. They did sleep over a lot of Mondays and Thursdays because I had to work and my brother would drive them to school.

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher and have lots of students with divorced parents. I can't imagine the school continuing to check the custody agreement and if they are following their assigned nights to determine residency.

I've had students that needed to leave because their parents were using a business or relative's address instead of a primary residence.

Here's a thought, I have no idea if this is okay but if your condo is zoned for a different HS then could you not rent it out and have someone move in during the week? It would be cheaper than paying private or FCPS tuition if you can't pupil place. I agree with PPs and pupil placing is more common for HS.

It sounds like a gigantic hassle and I would move to an area I liked before I'd do any of this.

[Anonymous]

Here's a thought, I have no idea if this is okay but if your condo is zoned for a different HS then could you not rent it out and have someone move in during the week? It would be cheaper than paying private or FCPS tuition if you can't pupil place. I agree with PPs and pupil placing is more common for HS.

This is not okay. If you rent it out, it is not your residence. Period.