First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

It's no secret that several schools have MD residents. The problem I have is finding out the child's name who exits the car.

I choose to leave it alone while it's not on my business.

[Anonymous]

330 posts! Go back to work, wash the dishes or go for a run or something. "I can't go to bed - someone is WRONG on the internet."

[Anonymous]

I grew up in MD, lived in DC for years but left my registration in MD at a family member's house to avoid paying fees to transfer & not sit in lines at the DMV. When I bought a new car, registered in DC & got a new license. Moved back to MD later & again waited until I got a new car (was leasing at the time) to change over registration/license. It's sometimes just easier to leave things between the two, even though you are supposed to transfer faster.

[Anonymous]

I've dipped in and out of this thread, out of curiosity about why it was so long, and I JUST realized that I could be one of the people everyone is griping about. I've been borrowing my elderly father's car -- with MD tags -- for the past several months because I got a new job that requires me to drive to work, and we only had one car, which my husband drives to his job. Our son just started at a new DC public school, and I drop him off in the MD car. I honestly don't think anyone has noticed (I have to park and walk him in) but now I feel kind of self-conscious! Rest assured everyone--we do live in DC and are just lucky to have a generous father who lets me borrow his car....

[Anonymous]

Quite. But some people are sociopaths.

[Anonymous]

At our charter today, there was an announcement, "would the owner of an XX car with Maryland tags please move your car. You are blocking the..." I thought of this thread immediately!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our charter today, there was an announcement, "would the owner of an XX car with Maryland tags please move your car. You are blocking the..." I thought of this thread immediately!

Charters have an obligation to investigate residency. But I think that many charters, particularly those that are not oversubscribed, are just happy to take the taxpayer money that comes with each student, and don't want to inquire too much where those students really come from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our charter today, there was an announcement, "would the owner of an XX car with Maryland tags please move your car. You are blocking the..." I thought of this thread immediately!

Charters have an obligation to investigate residency. But I think that many charters, particularly those that are not oversubscribed, are just happy to take the taxpayer money that comes with each student, and don't want to inquire too much where those students really come from.

I think that's true but this charter has a long wait list and I think they take residency requirements pretty seriously. I'm sure there was some reasonable explanation.

[Anonymous]

Fraud is fraud. Don't justify fraudsters with transgressions about borrowing someone's car or disobeying the law by not wanting to tag a car appropriately. Principals need to get out from behind their desks and nail this stuff down. Oh, but they all live in Md. too, so why do they care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Lots of rough schools in PG county, and if you drive to work in DC, lots of convenient schools, some of them better than your PG options. That residency cheating exists is well-known and documented. The DC govt spends (insufficient) resources policing it and reports on their progress.

If your point was that you live in Bethesda and prefer those schools to DC, who cares, that says nothing about other MD residents.

This whole debate has a lot in common with the church parking issue. Churchgoers at many DC churches actually live in Md. They feel entitled to violate zoned parking laws and double park etc to attend church. They are defended by many native washingtonian AAs and by some long time resident white liberals. And so far, by parking enforcement. And they are criticized by newcomers of all races who think the practice is bullshit and they should move the churches to where they live, or else respect parking laws in Dc.

Same idea with MD people using DC schools (ward 9). Used to be no big deal, but as more and more newcomers arrive and the schools become popular and so on, there is more and more protest. So when you see people defending cheaters here, maybe they are cheaters, but maybe they are just old time washington and they don't like the change that is afoot.

It's so gross that people in this forum spend so much time, mind space and vitriol on this issue, especially when it's evident that if you are at the school making this observation then you've been denied absolutely nothing. If you live in the boundary, you're guaranteed a right to the school. But to go a step further and make it clear that your real disgruntlement is that your neighborhood hasn't cleared out the "old timers" fast enough for your liking is just . . . stomach turning.

DC has been making Sunday parking allowances for decades. Churchgoers are not violating anything except your assumed entitlement to keep black people out of your neighborhood and sight lines once a week. Why - and how - in the world would you expect anyone to move their church?

It has nothing in common with school residency cheating except in your small, mean, racist little mind that's longing for the day when all the people who can't afford $3000/month to live in your midst can be driven out for good. Why don't you just go ahead and do what early segregationists did and gather your neighbors to form a guantlet to spit and throw slurs at the people you don't want in your school.

Otherwise, report your suspicions and then STFU about it. Or maybe move to a place where black people wouldn't dare try to get into your school. There's someone on these boards who talks of their district in Alabama where black people who have the choice to go to better schools just don't. (Hmm. I wonder why.)

Um have you been to Capitol Hill lately? Three churches sold their space and moved to PGC. They took advantage of the increased housing prices and sold their spaces for millions and millions of dollars. So I guess moving a church is okay if you get $$$$$$$ right?

- new poster who is happy illegal parking has gone down since the churches have moved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fraud is fraud. Don't justify fraudsters with transgressions about borrowing someone's car or disobeying the law by not wanting to tag a car appropriately. Principals need to get out from behind their desks and nail this stuff down. Oh, but they all live in Md. too, so why do they care?

No joke. At the DCPS NW elem that my son attended when he was younger, for years there was a paper pusher/desk rider of a principal until he was finally forced out. And the kicker was, he lived in MD and yet his son was enrolled in the school. Tuition-free, natch. Nothing says cracking down on residency fraud in DCPS when even the principal was doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Lots of rough schools in PG county, and if you drive to work in DC, lots of convenient schools, some of them better than your PG options. That residency cheating exists is well-known and documented. The DC govt spends (insufficient) resources policing it and reports on their progress.

If your point was that you live in Bethesda and prefer those schools to DC, who cares, that says nothing about other MD residents.

This whole debate has a lot in common with the church parking issue. Churchgoers at many DC churches actually live in Md. They feel entitled to violate zoned parking laws and double park etc to attend church. They are defended by many native washingtonian AAs and by some long time resident white liberals. And so far, by parking enforcement. And they are criticized by newcomers of all races who think the practice is bullshit and they should move the churches to where they live, or else respect parking laws in Dc.

Same idea with MD people using DC schools (ward 9). Used to be no big deal, but as more and more newcomers arrive and the schools become popular and so on, there is more and more protest. So when you see people defending cheaters here, maybe they are cheaters, but maybe they are just old time washington and they don't like the change that is afoot.

It's so gross that people in this forum spend so much time, mind space and vitriol on this issue, especially when it's evident that if you are at the school making this observation then you've been denied absolutely nothing. If you live in the boundary, you're guaranteed a right to the school. But to go a step further and make it clear that your real disgruntlement is that your neighborhood hasn't cleared out the "old timers" fast enough for your liking is just . . . stomach turning.

DC has been making Sunday parking allowances for decades. Churchgoers are not violating anything except your assumed entitlement to keep black people out of your neighborhood and sight lines once a week. Why - and how - in the world would you expect anyone to move their church?

It has nothing in common with school residency cheating except in your small, mean, racist little mind that's longing for the day when all the people who can't afford $3000/month to live in your midst can be driven out for good. Why don't you just go ahead and do what early segregationists did and gather your neighbors to form a guantlet to spit and throw slurs at the people you don't want in your school.

Otherwise, report your suspicions and then STFU about it. Or maybe move to a place where black people wouldn't dare try to get into your school. There's someone on these boards who talks of their district in Alabama where black people who have the choice to go to better schools just don't. (Hmm. I wonder why.)

Um have you been to Capitol Hill lately? Three churches sold their space and moved to PGC. They took advantage of the increased housing prices and sold their spaces for millions and millions of dollars. So I guess moving a church is okay if you get $$$$$$$ right?

- new poster who is happy illegal parking has gone down since the churches have moved.

Yes, some more examples, Mt Pleasant Baptist on 16th also moved (to Bloomingdale?) and is being converted to condos as we speak. There is another church for sale near 11th in Columbia Heights. All over DC, churches are cashing out on real estate and following their congregations east. Contrary to the other PP's angry rant, it makes zero sense for a PG-based congregation to drive into DC every sunday, double parking and blocking other people's driveways. Churches, like elementary schools, are supposed to be close to where you live. Plus they get the real estate gains, and DC residents don't have to deal with the parking headaches. It's win-win.

[Anonymous]

+ 10 million (the prices some of these churches are going for)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fraud is fraud. Don't justify fraudsters with transgressions about borrowing someone's car or disobeying the law by not wanting to tag a car appropriately. Principals need to get out from behind their desks and nail this stuff down. Oh, but they all live in Md. too, so why do they care?

Is that what you want your principal spending time doing?

I can see dedicating a staff member to do it, but the principal? Really? He or she doesn't have better things to do at your school? Like observing teachers, reviewing data, talking with students and parents?

[Anonymous]

So now we see the churches being segregated. Rise up against this tyranny!