OSSE truly cracking down on out of boundary this year?

[Anonymous]

I'd love to know what school this is.

[Anonymous]

We moved to MD mid-year. Our school knew. We just had to withdraw our child NOW, in a graduation year, because... DC is that illogical. OSSE doesn't pro-rate. Funding was done. We were taking no one's slot. If it hadn't been a graduation year, I would have moved the child. I didn't, because it seemed impractical for everyone (especially after funding was done for the year) to move a child for less than one year from a situation that was working for them. I actually liked the sound of the school in MD MORE... but the child was happy, it was only a few months, and it seemed best for all--including the child's classmates, for various reasons that those of you will take umbrage are too mean-spirited to understand.

Now, my attitude is the District can pretty much set itself on fire and I will laugh. Enjoy DeVos.

[Anonymous]

Good, the district schools are bad enough without the influx of kids from PG and silver spring

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why penalize the kids at the school who live in DC? That's what a $10K/per cheater cut would do by reducing funding for the school and kids who are legitimately there. Instead, they should just go after the cheater and seek reimbursement or kick them out of the school system.

Because the underenrolled schools that tacitly (and even openly allow it) are burning the taxpayers. Even with full knowledge of residency cheating they have no incentive to enforce the laws. From a cheating school's perspective - they need to fill seats and they'll get paid either way, so they might as well help residency cheaters. If the residency cheater gets caught on their watch and the cheater is the only one who pays - why should they care? No penalty for them, no pain for them.

Now, they will personally suffer. Now they have an incentive to say "the buck stops here." That's why they need to be the place to turn the screws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are these PK cheaters? Why would they otherwise want to be in DCPS vs their suburban system?

Because plenty of suburban systems are equally crappy, and also inconvenient and/or overenrolled. It's not as if the residency cheaters are coming from McLean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good, the district schools are bad enough without the influx of kids from PG and silver spring

This happened a few years ago, btw, in late spring--as it is now, which brought it all back.

Since then, the child has been getting top testing scores--as they did in DC. But go on with your hate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We moved to MD mid-year. Our school knew. We just had to withdraw our child NOW, in a graduation year, because... DC is that illogical. OSSE doesn't pro-rate. Funding was done. We were taking no one's slot. If it hadn't been a graduation year, I would have moved the child. I didn't, because it seemed impractical for everyone (especially after funding was done for the year) to move a child for less than one year from a situation that was working for them. I actually liked the sound of the school in MD MORE... but the child was happy, it was only a few months, and it seemed best for all--including the child's classmates, for various reasons that those of you will take umbrage are too mean-spirited to understand.

Now, my attitude is the District can pretty much set itself on fire and I will laugh. Enjoy DeVos.

Shorter PP: "Rules are for thee, not for me."

My attitude is that the District is getting better every year - and the fact that PP left is proof. (And if she really didn't care, she wouldn't be reading DC threads. You know what I don't do? Read the threads about suburban nowhere that I don't live in.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why penalize the kids at the school who live in DC? That's what a $10K/per cheater cut would do by reducing funding for the school and kids who are legitimately there. Instead, they should just go after the cheater and seek reimbursement or kick them out of the school system.

Because the underenrolled schools that tacitly (and even openly allow it) are burning the taxpayers. Even with full knowledge of residency cheating they have no incentive to enforce the laws. From a cheating school's perspective - they need to fill seats and they'll get paid either way, so they might as well help residency cheaters. If the residency cheater gets caught on their watch and the cheater is the only one who pays - why should they care? No penalty for them, no pain for them.

Now, they will personally suffer. Now they have an incentive to say "the buck stops here." That's why they need to be the place to turn the screws.

You're missing the point. Ultimately, it is the DC kids who are enrolled at the school who will be with less arts, field trips, enrichment activities. DC kids will the be the ones suffering. How is that fair? I don't like residency cheaters either, but take away from the cheaters, not from the kids are legitimately there.

[Anonymous]

I work next to a site where a charter school is being built, one block away from the PG border. Very few children are living in this neighborhood, as it is mainly seniors. I already know how that is going to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We moved to MD mid-year. Our school knew. We just had to withdraw our child NOW, in a graduation year, because... DC is that illogical. OSSE doesn't pro-rate. Funding was done. We were taking no one's slot. If it hadn't been a graduation year, I would have moved the child. I didn't, because it seemed impractical for everyone (especially after funding was done for the year) to move a child for less than one year from a situation that was working for them. I actually liked the sound of the school in MD MORE... but the child was happy, it was only a few months, and it seemed best for all--including the child's classmates, for various reasons that those of you will take umbrage are too mean-spirited to understand.

Now, my attitude is the District can pretty much set itself on fire and I will laugh. Enjoy DeVos.

Shorter PP: "Rules are for thee, not for me."

My attitude is that the District is getting better every year - and the fact that PP left is proof. (And if she really didn't care, she wouldn't be reading DC threads. You know what I don't do? Read the threads about suburban nowhere that I don't live in.)

I dunno, PP. I'm not supportive of residency cheating in general, but the PP describes a situation in which they moved mid-year and her child was not being permitted to finish the school year. I don't think it's good for anyone to move kids mid-year if it can be avoided, and from a funding perspective, the funding for the year is already allocated. If the agreement with the school is "Child can finish the year but will not be counted towards next year's enrollment so as not to allocate funds for a child who doesn't live in DC" then that seems fine. I know plenty of people who have gone through this: they buy a house in a neighboring district mid-year (e.g., at the beginning of real estate season in March), and then their children finish out the current year at their DC school and start in MD/VA the following school year. None of them have had issues with this arrangement, and I can think of no reason why anyone should be upset about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work next to a site where a charter school is being built, one block away from the PG border. Very few children are living in this neighborhood, as it is mainly seniors. I already know how that is going to go.

It is a charter, so it doesn't matter who lives in the neighborhood. It will go the way that new charters usually go: there will be a ton of buzz about it, people will enroll, and they will come from all over the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work next to a site where a charter school is being built, one block away from the PG border. Very few children are living in this neighborhood, as it is mainly seniors. I already know how that is going to go.

It is a charter, so it doesn't matter who lives in the neighborhood. It will go the way that new charters usually go: there will be a ton of buzz about it, people will enroll, and they will come from all over the city.

Lol not charters EOTR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work next to a site where a charter school is being built, one block away from the PG border. Very few children are living in this neighborhood, as it is mainly seniors. I already know how that is going to go.

It is a charter, so it doesn't matter who lives in the neighborhood. It will go the way that new charters usually go: there will be a ton of buzz about it, people will enroll, and they will come from all over the city.

Lol not charters EOTR.

True, but it still doesn't matter who lives in the neighborhood since charters aren't neighborhood schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work next to a site where a charter school is being built, one block away from the PG border. Very few children are living in this neighborhood, as it is mainly seniors. I already know how that is going to go.

It is a charter, so it doesn't matter who lives in the neighborhood. It will go the way that new charters usually go: there will be a ton of buzz about it, people will enroll, and they will come from all over the city.

Lol not charters EOTR.

True, but it still doesn't matter who lives in the neighborhood since charters aren't neighborhood schools.

Yes, I get it. Just saying that this particular school will be very in demand from the PG crowd, as there are several high rise apartment buildings nearby that house plenty of kids. There is no metro stop within walking distance and the bus line that runs here is very infrequent/unreliable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We moved to MD mid-year. Our school knew. We just had to withdraw our child NOW, in a graduation year, because... DC is that illogical. OSSE doesn't pro-rate. Funding was done. We were taking no one's slot. If it hadn't been a graduation year, I would have moved the child. I didn't, because it seemed impractical for everyone (especially after funding was done for the year) to move a child for less than one year from a situation that was working for them. I actually liked the sound of the school in MD MORE... but the child was happy, it was only a few months, and it seemed best for all--including the child's classmates, for various reasons that those of you will take umbrage are too mean-spirited to understand.

Now, my attitude is the District can pretty much set itself on fire and I will laugh. Enjoy DeVos.

Shorter PP: "Rules are for thee, not for me."

My attitude is that the District is getting better every year - and the fact that PP left is proof. (And if she really didn't care, she wouldn't be reading DC threads. You know what I don't do? Read the threads about suburban nowhere that I don't live in.)

I dunno, PP. I'm not supportive of residency cheating in general, but the PP describes a situation in which they moved mid-year and her child was not being permitted to finish the school year. I don't think it's good for anyone to move kids mid-year if it can be avoided, and from a funding perspective, the funding for the year is already allocated. If the agreement with the school is "Child can finish the year but will not be counted towards next year's enrollment so as not to allocate funds for a child who doesn't live in DC" then that seems fine. I know plenty of people who have gone through this: they buy a house in a neighboring district mid-year (e.g., at the beginning of real estate season in March), and then their children finish out the current year at their DC school and start in MD/VA the following school year. None of them have had issues with this arrangement, and I can think of no reason why anyone should be upset about it.

That's why that PP's story is a bit suspect. DCPS let you finish the year, as do many (perhaps all) charters. More likely they moved more than a year ago, and were being billed for back tuition.