MD kids lying to get into DC Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did a reverse white pages look up of the address that a child I suspected lived in Md listed in the school directory, and it was not the parents' address. I called the confidential number and reported it. The child is not at the school this year. My school is a desirable school and I the Dc children who are out of bounds should have the spot. Not an out of state family.

Can you post the confidential number for reporting so that others will have this at their finger tips.

We are still at the point in time in the school year when it is easy for children to move in and out of schools. Let's not wait until the end of the school year to get these cheats out of the system (Note: I am referring to the parents not the children as the cheats)

I looked at the website and it is very different from last year so I cannot find what you are looking for-- but I think the number was posted in an earlier post here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I, too, have MD tags but live in DC. It's a newer car and we haven't had the chance to get tags changed but I assure you that we live in DC. Pls make sure that when you are reporting people that you know beyond a reasonable doubt that they are committing fraud.

Don't worry - when and if DC gets around to responding to a tip they will actually investigate it before just throwing a child out of a school. They may require you to show evidence of residency - a utility bill for example.

But please get your tags changed. Yeah - it sucks to go down to DMV, get your car inspected, get put into the jury pool every 2 years, vote in a place where you pay taxes and get no federal say in how it is spent - but this is part of being a resident in our community.

Thank you. This pisses me off.

[Anonymous]

I know of a family who sends one kid to Oyster, bought a home in MD and is sending youngest to Oyster pre-K because there is not pre-K in MoCo...I think that sucks for those who never made it off an Oyster wait list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know of a family who sends one kid to Oyster, bought a home in MD and is sending youngest to Oyster pre-K because there is not pre-K in MoCo...I think that sucks for those who never made it off an Oyster wait list.

Do they still also have a residence in-boundary for Oyster?

[Anonymous]

Voting, jury pool, etc. is based on your residence, not what your vehicle tags say. What are you so pissed about?

[Anonymous]

This upsets me seriously! I work in health care, and I would meet kids living in Bowie and Fort washington who were attending Duke Ellington
I asked the Moms why, and they said "it's better than PG"....
Unfortunately I thought I would be breaking confidentiality rules by reporting....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know of a family who sends one kid to Oyster, bought a home in MD and is sending youngest to Oyster pre-K because there is not pre-K in MoCo...I think that sucks for those who never made it off an Oyster wait list.

Do they still also have a residence in-boundary for Oyster?

I thought that at the principal's discretion, a family could keep its kids in the school if they moved out of boundary.

[Anonymous]

I know of a family who sends one kid to Oyster, bought a home in MD and is sending youngest to Oyster pre-K because there is not pre-K in MoCo...I think that sucks for those who never made it off an Oyster wait list.

I think that the MD parents who do this are using the prek and prek-3 programs as free daycare. The chancellor's office shuld do an audit on residency records for those grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This post really strikes a nerve. As a city, how are we to improve the educational opportunities for all if we turn a blind eye to this problem.

I believe that the schools are trying - and once they get over a hump instead of having spaces available to the residents of DC, non-DC residents are stealing them.

This is a variation on the problem that was uncovered a few years ago that non-resident parents of children with special education needs were claiming they were DC residents so that they could get the city to pay for their child's private school. I can not find the details on this right now, but I remember that millions of dollars were taken through this fraud. Monies that could have been allocated to improving OUR programs and schools.

Just because DC may not have the systems to check these things, does not make it OK. We as residents should step up and report the cases that we are aware of.

The local large public school districts can have cruddy programs for those with disabilities. yet the per pupil cost can be really high. I have known people who pay privately for the lab school. people from MD and DC were using a school heavily near Tysons and it had a cleanout a few years ago. Dozens left.

[Anonymous]

The fee for out-of-DC students to attend middle school in DC last year was about $10K. So if you live in a dubious MD or VA school district, it's much cheaper to pay $10K for a good DC public or charter than to send your kid to a private school for $30K. I second (third? fourth?) the suggestion to check to see whether families are doing this before you report them.

FWIW, there's apparently lots of traffic in the other direction, too. That is, kids from DC who use a relative's address to attend top public schools in VA or MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know of a family who sends one kid to Oyster, bought a home in MD and is sending youngest to Oyster pre-K because there is not pre-K in MoCo...I think that sucks for those who never made it off an Oyster wait list.

Do they still also have a residence in-boundary for Oyster?

I thought that at the principal's discretion, a family could keep its kids in the school if they moved out of boundary.

Yes, it is the principal's discretion if the family moved out of boundary - NOT out of district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Voting, jury pool, etc. is based on your residence, not what your vehicle tags say. What are you so pissed about?

Yes, it is based on your residence - but the way the system is set up in DC is that the jury pool is created by your driver's license.
Most people who have not changed their vehicle tags, have not changed their license either.
In addition, when you change your driver's license, you can register to vote at the same time. So everything is tied together.

[Anonymous]

The fee for out-of-DC students to attend middle school in DC last year was about $10K. So if you live in a dubious MD or VA school district, it's much cheaper to pay $10K for a good DC public or charter than to send your kid to a private school for $30K. I second (third? fourth?) the suggestion to check to see whether families are doing this before you report them.

If the family is paying tuition, then they will suffer no negative consequences if you report them. There is no reason to substantiate whether they are paying tuition before you call in your tip.

[Anonymous]

Except that you might be wasting taxpayer money on a pointless investigation, not to mention embarrassing the families in question and the school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Except that you might be wasting taxpayer money on a pointless investigation, not to mention embarrassing the families in question and the school?

OR you will be helping a family who is really struggling to pay for daycare (in for a pre-K3/4 program) - or who would like to start contributing to a college fund but can't b/c of childcare / private school costs.