question about fcps schools boundary
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Anonymous
| Who pays the taxes? The property owner. Period. |
Anonymous
It's residency--not who pays the taxes. If the house is rented out, the renter is the resident. Period. |
Anonymous
| A lot of angst and name-calling over the possibility of attending one very large FCPS high school (Oakton) rather than another (Westfield). Apart from Oakton having more cachet among some Carson parents, there's not much difference. |
Anonymous
| If the house zoned oakton is rented, those renters are presumably paying the tax, not OP. The children of THAT home, regardless if they rent or own, are entitled to attend Oakton. |
Anonymous
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Well, then...I want my kid to enroll in TJ.
Oh wait. There are rules that FCPS has in order to ensure all schools have what they need in terms of staffing and resources. There are lotteries for some schools. To attend some schools, you need to have an IEP. For others you need to have been selected by a committee after they reviewed test scores and essays. And for base schools, you have to put your head down on a pillow in that catchment area for a preponderance of the school week unless you’ve been granted some exception such as child care hardship or your parent works in the school. Sure, everyone pays taxes across the county. And some people even own multiple properties. But that alone does not give you the right to simply attend any school you want. Everyone must start at their base school—the school in the catchment area where both child and parent lay their heads during the school week. If you want to attend a school outside that area, there are a variety of ways you can do that. Claiming that you pay taxes or own a property elsewhere is not one of them. If you’re struggling with this, then please run for school board and get elected to change this. |
Anonymous
Not really. I’m a teacher and once knew a family who rented an apartment for the child and parent to say at during the week since it was cheaper than private school tuition. Who knows if they slept there every night but I thought it was smart of them. They were open about it and had a lease and utilities. The house they owned was on the other side of the beltway. |
Anonymous
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Are there really this many dishonest people around? This is not the only thread going on now where someone is trying to be deceptive to get something from the school system that they want. And then they act like only stupid people who are incapable of independent thought actually follow the rules.
No wonder there are problems with high school kids cheating. Their parents are probably high fiving them for coming up with such clever ways to trick their teachers. |
Anonymous
Well technically OP is paying the property taxes with the renters money. I could maybe buy your argument if OP didn’t rent out the other house. |
Anonymous
It’s not dishonest or cheating to find the loopholes and use them to your advantage. It’s smart. |
Anonymous
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Yes, I've heard of students getting kicked out of a school for residency fraud.
I'm sure those kids were happy that their parents cheated and put them through that. |
Anonymous
| Only if you move into the rental or keep the rental Vacant |
Anonymous
But that’s not what the post you quoted said. The poster said a family could sleep in a motel during the school week. That’s quite different from renting an apartment inside a school boundary. |
Anonymous
I'm glad someone noted this. Students do get booted from schools for residency fraud and told to go to the schools assigned to their real residences. Of course someone will come here to say that they know families who cheated all 12 years their kid was in public school and never got caught etc., but families actually do get caught and the kids moved. You may not hear much about it because schools don't particularly want to single out a child or teen that way--the student sometimes just doesn't come back after a school break or after the end of a quarter etc. But FCPS does watch out for fraud and will enforce the rules if it catches you. Imagine being the kid in that scenario, losing friends you had at your school and encountering questions at your new (correct) school when you turn up there. I guess the same parents who are fine with residency fraud are parents who will give their kids plenty of creative lies to tell abou why they changed schools. |
Anonymous
From the proceeds of the rental. |
Anonymous
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When all schools are underenrolled and performing within arms length of each other, no one really cares.
When was that? 1990 Fairfax County? Someone is gonna rat you out OP. Too much money spent, too many competing kids, too many sacrifices... Someone will find out and report it. If you desire Oakton? Move back to your house there. |