Boundary fraud: does anyone care

[Anonymous]

Family member worked at an overcrowded nw dc school. Was told by staff members that several kids attending the school while living in MD helped to make the school more diverse. It's definitely a widespread issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+100. Focus on your own children.

Is that the attitude you would take if you saw someone breaking into a car? Not my car, not my problem? What if it was your car?

If your kid didn't get in to prek3 does that then give you the right to complain? Either something is against the rules or isn't!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know of several of my students are out of state and one is even out of the country. I have no desire to raise any flags about this. It's a pandemic. People maybe have to lean on family.

This is us. We're DC taxpayers, with a DC residence within the boundary for our IB school. But we're temporarily out of DC with family for help during the pandemic. Once school is back in-person, we'll be back in DC. A genuine question: Is there really a legitimate red flag with our situation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+100. Focus on your own children.

Is that the attitude you would take if you saw someone breaking into a car? Not my car, not my problem? What if it was your car?

If your kid didn't get in to prek3 does that then give you the right to complain? Either something is against the rules or isn't!

So report whomever and save us your holier-than-thou screed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know of several of my students are out of state and one is even out of the country. I have no desire to raise any flags about this. It's a pandemic. People maybe have to lean on family.

This is us. We're DC taxpayers, with a DC residence within the boundary for our IB school. But we're temporarily out of DC with family for help during the pandemic. Once school is back in-person, we'll be back in DC. A genuine question: Is there really a legitimate red flag with our situation?

No.

[Anonymous]

Poor people will always scrap and steal for bread. The "eat the moldy loaf we gave you" will never curtail that nor will telling them they weren't invited to your buffet feast. And i don't have a problem with it, what i do have is the middle class peeps from PG and the gentryfiers who buy in a moldy area and then feel entitled to cheat as part of their initial plan. If you shoot your load and buy in Brightwood to get new construction, you should go to brightwood schools. If you live in PG, you should go to PG schools. If you live in SE and are historically poor, the city should let you pick where you want to go

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poor people will always scrap and steal for bread. The "eat the moldy loaf we gave you" will never curtail that nor will telling them they weren't invited to your buffet feast. And i don't have a problem with it, what i do have is the middle class peeps from PG and the gentryfiers who buy in a moldy area and then feel entitled to cheat as part of their initial plan. If you shoot your load and buy in Brightwood to get new construction, you should go to brightwood schools. If you live in PG, you should go to PG schools. If you live in SE and are historically poor, the city should let you pick where you want to go

What about the middle to upper class people that are just trading up for a "better" piece of cake?

It is a problem but DCPS doesn't care for many reasons.

[Anonymous]

The system is designed to be cheated as it is nearly impossible to do the 'proper' thing. Try proving residency while serving in the military. We found out that it was nearly impossible with DCPS and we received letters from DCPS every year our child was at charter school.

We would submit his military orders (Pentagon, not DC), property tax record (DC), his W2 (No DC address on it), a utility bill (DC address). Every year he would end up having to take a morning away from the office and visit DCPS Offices with their little violation letter and a handful of documents.

The basis of their complaint seemed to be that there was no DC income tax filing or a pay stub with a DC address. In the end there would always be a very gracious and reasonable person who would wonder aloud how this situation had progressed this far. And then we would be off of their hit list for another year.

[Anonymous]

My kids go to a JKLM elementary school and I could not possibly care less about boundary fraud here. I don't think there's much of it going on, but I also don't think an extra three or four kids per grade are a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poor people will always scrap and steal for bread. The "eat the moldy loaf we gave you" will never curtail that nor will telling them they weren't invited to your buffet feast. And i don't have a problem with it, what i do have is the middle class peeps from PG and the gentryfiers who buy in a moldy area and then feel entitled to cheat as part of their initial plan. If you shoot your load and buy in Brightwood to get new construction, you should go to brightwood schools. If you live in PG, you should go to PG schools. If you live in SE and are historically poor, the city should let you pick where you want to go

What about the middle to upper class people that are just trading up for a "better" piece of cake?

It is a problem but DCPS doesn't care for many reasons.

Boundary cheating just isn't easy to pull off. School communities are small and cohorts stay together for many years, the word gets around, enrollment docs must be submitted annually and investigations do happen.

I'm not convinced that UMC parents trading up is in fact all that common, there are too many good charters to lottery into for them to take the risk. DCPS has much better things to do than hound UMC families who own more than one residential property and pay plenty in property tax.

Find a more pressing issue.

[Anonymous]

Hint: no real reason to care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hint: no real reason to care.

The only people who care about this are UMC parents who send their kids to HRCS or upper NW elementary schools.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty cranky when I see MD plates doing drop off at the HRCS we got shut out of. But boundary fraud? Meh, taxes are taxes and there are plenty of PK options for kids that don't get in to their in-bounds. It's two years before they have a guaranteed seat in K and there are plenty of other solid options to choose from. Feels like a waste of enforcement resources when there are PLENTY of MD residents that should be investigated.

[Anonymous]

Well, I am seriously considering renting a one-bedroom apartment WOTP or in Takoma Park when my kid hits middle school. We will sleep there Sun-Thurs, and go home to our house IB for Wells/Coolidge for the weekend. If you are being taxed on a rental or a second home - you are supporting the schools. Flame away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I am seriously considering renting a one-bedroom apartment WOTP or in Takoma Park when my kid hits middle school. We will sleep there Sun-Thurs, and go home to our house IB for Wells/Coolidge for the weekend. If you are being taxed on a rental or a second home - you are supporting the schools. Flame away.

I think if you are *actually* leaving there Sunday-Thursday, that’s the majority of the week, and so that’s your residence, and so you aren’t committing boundary fraud.

What’s more interesting, is that out of a multitude of potential options, this one makes sense somehow.