Going to School in a Different District

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a good location, own a few rental properties. The school in my district are at risk schools, and rated near the bottom for Fairfax County. My kids are miserable. We have issues with bullies.
My rental properties are in very good school districts. I was thinking of using one of these properties listing it as my home so I can get my kids into the better school district. I know it's not the right thing to do, and its dishonest, but I need my kids out of the other school. Does anyone have a suggestion, or have you done something like this?

The market value/rent of your rental properties is linked to their schools. You need to give up one rental and use that one as residence. It may cost you some income if the rental value of your home is lower. But, so what if it does. Many people pay up for good schools and so can you.

[Anonymous]

Too bad OP. School residency isn’t about property taxes or homeownership, it’s about where the child resides 51% of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a good location, own a few rental properties. The school in my district are at risk schools, and rated near the bottom for Fairfax County. My kids are miserable. We have issues with bullies.
My rental properties are in very good school districts. I was thinking of using one of these properties listing it as my home so I can get my kids into the better school district. I know it's not the right thing to do, and its dishonest, but I need my kids out of the other school. Does anyone have a suggestion, or have you done something like this?

Move to the rental property while your kids are in K-12. Rent out the house in the “crappy “ school district.

[Anonymous]

Not only are you profiting by keeping other families from owning homes in a good school district you also want to live in a cheaper area but still have your kid benefit from the wealthy area school. It is extremely unfair and frankly screws everyone but you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not only are you profiting by keeping other families from owning homes in a good school district you also want to live in a cheaper area but still have your kid benefit from the wealthy area school. It is extremely unfair and frankly screws everyone but you.

Forget about OP. The logic and reasoning here is absurd. So only the wealthy should deserve access to good schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not only are you profiting by keeping other families from owning homes in a good school district you also want to live in a cheaper area but still have your kid benefit from the wealthy area school. It is extremely unfair and frankly screws everyone but you.

Forget about OP. The logic and reasoning here is absurd. So only the wealthy should deserve access to good schools?

No, we should spread out affordable & voucher housing so that there aren’t schools with concentrated poverty. We should also rezone at times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I use the grandparent's house? For example, grand parents can pick the kid up after school but the kid doesn't sleep there?

It has to be the child's residence. Do they live with their grandparents more than 50% of the time (such that the Grandparents are considered their guardians)?

You may be able to do pupil placement if the grandparents are providing childcare. Look at the bases for pupil placement.

[Anonymous]

OP, take these outraged responses with a grain of salt. FCPS is filled with families who are cheating the system one way or another, e.g., prepping kids for AAP and then using sibling transfers to get the school they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, take these outraged responses with a grain of salt. FCPS is filled with families who are cheating the system one way or another, e.g., prepping kids for AAP and then using sibling transfers to get the school they want.

But those are legal methods of transfer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, take these outraged responses with a grain of salt. FCPS is filled with families who are cheating the system one way or another, e.g., prepping kids for AAP and then using sibling transfers to get the school they want.

But those are legal methods of transfer.

The NNAT and COGAT are invalid if you prep for them, yet many kids do so. Cheating on a test to get access to a school is not any better than what OP is proposing. Now, OP needs to be aware of the potential consequences of her actions should she get caught, but the smugness of the responses here are absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, take these outraged responses with a grain of salt. FCPS is filled with families who are cheating the system one way or another, e.g., prepping kids for AAP and then using sibling transfers to get the school they want.

But those are legal methods of transfer.

The NNAT and COGAT are invalid if you prep for them, yet many kids do so. Cheating on a test to get access to a school is not any better than what OP is proposing. Now, OP needs to be aware of the potential consequences of her actions should she get caught, but the smugness of the responses here are absurd.

To clarify, I am not suggesting that OP should break the law, just that the moral outrage is unwarranted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, take these outraged responses with a grain of salt. FCPS is filled with families who are cheating the system one way or another, e.g., prepping kids for AAP and then using sibling transfers to get the school they want.

But those are legal methods of transfer.

The NNAT and COGAT are invalid if you prep for them, yet many kids do so. Cheating on a test to get access to a school is not any better than what OP is proposing. Now, OP needs to be aware of the potential consequences of her actions should she get caught, but the smugness of the responses here are absurd.

Trying to compare apples and oranges, I see. How about answering OP's actual question instead of dragging in your own ire about test prep, which is utterly unrelated to OP's issue? Maybe start a thread all your own about test prep outrage. And no, I'm not a parent who is busily prepping my kid for anything and I have no reason to defend test prep. I just think that leaping into a thread about cheating on residency with your own opinions about test prep does nothing except derail the question at hand. Trying to make the thread about some larger "everyone cheats at all kinds of things!" outrage doesn't add a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?"

Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity.

Did FCPS end pupil placement for reasons of academic programming (like allowing a student to leave an AP HS to attend the nearest IB HS instead, or vice versa)? Not that I know of. How have you "lost your right to request a pupil placement"? Asking seriously. I have never been aware that for high school, there was any pupil placement allowed except for AP/IB programs or for instances where a student had been severely bullied or had other issues that meant he or she had to be separated from other students at the base HS. Maybe some form of sibling placement. But other than those, what "right" got altered that affected your kid(s)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?"

Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity.

Did FCPS end pupil placement for reasons of academic programming (like allowing a student to leave an AP HS to attend the nearest IB HS instead, or vice versa)? Not that I know of. How have you "lost your right to request a pupil placement"? Asking seriously. I have never been aware that for high school, there was any pupil placement allowed except for AP/IB programs or for instances where a student had been severely bullied or had other issues that meant he or she had to be separated from other students at the base HS. Maybe some form of sibling placement. But other than those, what "right" got altered that affected your kid(s)?

Referring specifically to AP/IB pupil placement. For those of us in the southern/central part of the county, WSHS and Woodson are now closed to transfers for AP because they're beyond capacity. LBSS has capacity but that's such an enormous school already that we had reservations about it. In any case, with so many overcrowded schools now the options for pupil placement have dwindled across the county. Although the issue is primarily in the eastern central half where IB is concentrated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, take these outraged responses with a grain of salt. FCPS is filled with families who are cheating the system one way or another, e.g., prepping kids for AAP and then using sibling transfers to get the school they want.

But those are legal methods of transfer.

The NNAT and COGAT are invalid if you prep for them, yet many kids do so. Cheating on a test to get access to a school is not any better than what OP is proposing. Now, OP needs to be aware of the potential consequences of her actions should she get caught, but the smugness of the responses here are absurd.

No, your comment is absurd.