Here is how to transfer to any high school in the area

[Anonymous]

70 percent of kids at Freedom are FARMs. In the DC area that likely means a lot of renters. It’s significantly easier to move from rental to rental for a year.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! Not a darn thing. They’re all cleared. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/08/27/hayfield-football-investigation/

But people on this board assured us that there were going to be many arrests. Seems like the FCPS residency checks aren’t quite as robust as advertised. Maybe that’s why certain FCPS schools have such a low enrollment?

I'm curious about what the normal procedure is for these residency checks and what they did in this situation.

No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

Freedom and Hayfield are only about half an hour drive apart. I don't know about the parents of these specific students, but many families that live in the Freedom high school boundaries have parents that commute FAR longer to get to work. Relocating into Hayfield boundaries could have actually made sense from a work-commute perspective.

Moving is expensive.
And, Rent in Hayfield area is like 1000 more per
month for equivalent apartment in Woodbridge.

For the short term. And eviction takes a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! Not a darn thing. They’re all cleared. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/08/27/hayfield-football-investigation/

But people on this board assured us that there were going to be many arrests. Seems like the FCPS residency checks aren’t quite as robust as advertised. Maybe that’s why certain FCPS schools have such a low enrollment?

I'm curious about what the normal procedure is for these residency checks and what they did in this situation.

No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

Freedom and Hayfield are only about half an hour drive apart. I don't know about the parents of these specific students, but many families that live in the Freedom high school boundaries have parents that commute FAR longer to get to work. Relocating into Hayfield boundaries could have actually made sense from a work-commute perspective.

Moving is expensive.
And, Rent in Hayfield area is like 1000 more per
month for equivalent apartment in Woodbridge.

And? Are you alleging that these families are too poor to afford housing within Hayfield boundaries?

[Anonymous]

Well, if 70 percent of kids at Freedom are FARMS then statistically 70 percent of the 12 transfers will be poor.
Moving to a more expensive area to pay more rent for less apartment plus the costs of moving requires a decent chunk of change

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Anonymous wrote:Well, if 70 percent of kids at Freedom are FARMS then statistically 70 percent of the 12 transfers will be poor.

The kids were at Freedom specifically to play football for that coaching staff, same reason they are at Hayfield now, you can't assume that the demographics of the football players were the same as the school as a whole.

However you can assume that these are families that are more motivated than the average family to do whatever it takes to be in a specific high school football program.

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No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

You're seriously underestimating the sacrifices kids and their families are willing to make to play on a specific high school sports team. Kids in this region do extreme commutes and their families pay tens of thousands of dollars in tuition to play for private school powerhouses. Renting in a specific public school zone for a year is a bargain in comparison.

It's crazy

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Anonymous wrote:I think its very questionable to hire the football coach as the head of school security.

Football games are often the place where school security incidents occur. How can the head of security be on top of things when he is out coaching a game.

In particular, lopsided games which is what they will have all season can get ugly really fast.

I completely agree.

This will not end well.

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No one really believes that 14+ families all relocated their entire lives this summer to rent in the Hayfield school zone for kids to attend for maybe only one school year, right? Its laughable.

What I have put together from parents and online discussion is that approximately 6 of the 12 legit moved. Football *is* their life and if they rent, it’s just a matter of ending their lease in Woodbridge and getting an apartment in Kingstowne.

Don’t know about the others but they moved, or papered the file to FCPS’s satisfaction. You can rent a basement bedroom from a widow for $600/month and you have a lease and payments to match. These families are probably spending $5k-$10k on travel teams, camps, and training. They are already invested.

I’m a former HSS football parent (my son graduated a few years ago).

There really isn’t travel tackle football, like there is soccer, volleyball, etc, and football tends to be a less expensive youth sport because in this area it attracts a less affluent crowd, but your point is valid: they only need the lease for four or five months (August through December), before the scrutiny dies off because football season is over. So maybe around $3,000 for rent. Then they can transfer back to Freedom after the first semester, or just commute to Hayfield to “finish their senior year”.

When my son was in 6th grade, we moved over winter break and the FCPS elementary school let us finish out the school year, but we had to provide our own transportation. We moved in-bounds for the secondary school, but were not in bounds for the ES he had been attending. This is fairly common, especially in the last year at a school.

While Hayfield is a solidly middle class school fed by diverse housing, there is a lot of poverty and non-nuclear family or living arrangements in southeastern Fairfax County so it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for a teenager to be living with “family friends”, or dad renting a basement. This would stand out in some of the richer areas, but it’s not uncommon down here.

They are 2 entirely different districts (and in a few cases, different states.

Allowing a student to finish the year would not be an option in this case for existing FCPS whose parents pay taxes to the district.

Why is this sn option for our of county and out of state kids?

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Anonymous wrote:Its all super fun and games until a kid from a much weaker team gets seriously injured in a 100-0 blowout.

Exactly.

WSHS is Hayfield's first game.

WSHS was a much stronger team than Hayfield last year.

If the first game of the season is very unbalanced towards the new PWC stacked Hayfield team, then that will give you an indication of how things will fare for the weaker teams they face later in the season, and how dangerous it might be for schools like Lewis to play the Hayfield team.

There are some other strong teams early in the Hayfield schedule that will also indicate whether the coach cheating is going to pay off for Hayfield.

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Anonymous wrote:70 percent of kids at Freedom are FARMs. In the DC area that likely means a lot of renters. It’s significantly easier to move from rental to rental for a year.

It is really hard to find rentals in that area.

Ask the military families.

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WSHS beat Hayfield 42-13 last year.

[Anonymous]

Annandale, which someone mentioned up thread, lost to Hayfield last year 50-0. Their coaches should refuse to play. It is frankly unsafe.

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Anonymous wrote:Annandale, which someone mentioned up thread, lost to Hayfield last year 50-0. Their coaches should refuse to play. It is frankly unsafe.

OMG

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6 of the 14? There are 12 from Prince William, 1 from a school in Maryland and 1 from a school in DC.

Ok - 6 of the 14. But the two private school kids from St John’s and Dematha could have been living anywhere prior to the transfer. St Johns runs a bus up Rt 1 every morning right through Hayfields district so maybe the kid already lived there. DeMatha kid probably involved a move but not necessarily all the way from Hyattsville.

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Moving is expensive.
And, Rent in Hayfield area is like 1000 more per
month for equivalent apartment in Woodbridge.

1) Moving a 2 bedroom apartment is about $500 professionally or less if you UHaul and make the football team do it.

2) there is a YouTube video up a few pages where a Hayfield mom says she’s now living at the Elms in Kingstowne. The Elms has 2 BR listed for $2700. Something equivalent in Woodbridge (say the Kensington Place) is $2500.

Another mother in the same video says she’s only paying $100 more per month.