Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same here. A small slice of the population gets a kick out of being smug, moralizing pains. These busybodies have too much time on their hands. I don't know parents in the J-R community who fuss about boundary fraud.

Ok then why not just tell everyone!

But I love how the bad ones in your scenario are the people who are mad at cheating and not the cheaters. You really are a bully.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Certainly not DCPS leaders, the city council or Bowser. As long as that remains the case, I fail to see the point of this shame game and all the hand wringing.

Because it's dishonest and unfair to other students.

My kid is an in-bounds student at Jackson Reed and I don't care about boundary fraud there. If the "victims" don't care, why do you?

Your kid is at JR. Personally I'd still be bothered by the way boundary fraud leads to overcrowding, but your kid is still at the best IB DCPS high school in the city, so I'm not surprised that you don't really care.

Meanwhile, there are thousands of families in the city who play by the rules every year, reporting their address accurately and just hoping they can get a spot at a decent high school, and making do with what is possible within the bound of the law and fairness. And yes, those are the people far more likely to be upset at someone who cheats to gain access to something that many people also want but, because they are actually following the rules, don't get.

There are also people who suck it up and move IB for JR, and I seriously doubt they are enthusiastic to hear that other families accomplish the same thing by simply lying on their paperwork.

As far as I can tell "simply lying on their paperwork" is an urban myth where access to J-R is concerned. Yes, there're a tiny number of parents who live EotP who rent places for J-R, or own places in-boundary where they don't live. In a nutshell, if you don't have the paperwork to survive a DCPS residency investigation and possibly a home visit, you don't just swan into J-R without winning a lottery spot and stay there.

If I were to rank boundary fraud on a list of my concerns about J-R as a parent of two students there, boundary fraud would be lower than problem #25.

Again, of course you feel this way, your kids are at J-R. So what do you care. It's people who are struggling to get their kid into a solid HS by following the rules who are most bothered by cheaters.

Also, you are basically saying that in order to commit boundary fraud, people have to construct elaborate fictions where they fake living in a home they don't live in, in order to survive a residency investigation and home visit. That's actually worse! Putting grandmas address down on your paperwork and hoping no one checks it is still wrong, but everyone has moments of weakness. Going to the trouble of renting a home on the other side of town, repeatedly lying directly to officials about where you live, coaching your child into lying? That's much, much worse. If you are willing to go to that trouble, just move IB for the school. It's less hassle and has the benefit of not being against the rules.

[Anonymous]

Come on, PP isn't saying parents have to commit boundary fraud or that the practice is just fine. They're saying that it's no secret that a few families do this but that in-boundary J-R parents have much bigger concerns about their high school. Fair enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Come on, PP isn't saying parents have to commit boundary fraud or that the practice is just fine. They're saying that it's no secret that a few families do this but that in-boundary J-R parents have much bigger concerns about their high school. Fair enough.

As a soon-to-be MacArthur parent, I have a big problem with boundary fraud at J-R being tolerated. Existing J-R parents are not the victims here.

[Anonymous]

People with a big problem with boundary fraud at J-R can always lobby the Mayor's Office, their city council member and the at-large members, OSSE and DCPS to end it. Are you doing any of that?

[Anonymous]

end what? feeder rights? you will still have some address fraud and the oob population at deal and its feeders is pretty small in comparison to other schools. they do audit enrollments and require home visits not from deal but no one who is following the rules necessarily wants an extremely difficult, burdensome, or arbitrary enrollment process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People with a big problem with boundary fraud at J-R can always lobby the Mayor's Office, their city council member and the at-large members, OSSE and DCPS to end it. Are you doing any of that?

Why would someone want to go through all that trouble when it would be much easier to just report the individuals who who are committing fraud?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same here. A small slice of the population gets a kick out of being smug, moralizing pains. These busybodies have too much time on their hands. I don't know parents in the J-R community who fuss about boundary fraud.

Great! So does this mean that if the thousands of DC kids who are currently attending lower-performing schools were to switch their enrollment to JR, you would be totally cool with it?

Or are you only cool with a small amount of boundary fraud?

[Anonymous]

I'm cool with it if the family has the paperwork to clear a DCPS residency fraud investigation including a home visit. Yes. In that case, leave them alone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People with a big problem with boundary fraud at J-R can always lobby the Mayor's Office, their city council member and the at-large members, OSSE and DCPS to end it. Are you doing any of that?

Why would someone want to go through all that trouble when it would be much easier to just report the individuals who who are committing fraud?

You seem to have missed the last 25 pages of this thread. No point in reporting individuals who are committing boundary fraud because boundary fraud only exists on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm cool with it if the family has the paperwork to clear a DCPS residency fraud investigation including a home visit. Yes. In that case, leave them alone.

Um they don’t have the paperwork. Unless you mean the paperwork with the false domicile listed?

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Anonymous wrote:People with a big problem with boundary fraud at J-R can always lobby the Mayor's Office, their city council member and the at-large members, OSSE and DCPS to end it. Are you doing any of that?

Why would someone want to go through all that trouble when it would be much easier to just report the individuals who who are committing fraud?

You seem to have missed the last 25 pages of this thread. No point in reporting individuals who are committing boundary fraud because boundary fraud only exists on DCUM.

You seemed to have missed the last 25 pages where your totally uninformed take on the law was addressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm cool with it if the family has the paperwork to clear a DCPS residency fraud investigation including a home visit. Yes. In that case, leave them alone.

Awesome! So in your view, all high school kids of bona fide DC residents should be allowed to attend JR, correct?

[Anonymous]

From the DC Code:

§ 22–2405. False statements.

(a) A person commits the offense of making false statements if that person wilfully makes a false statement that is in fact material, in writing, directly or indirectly, to any instrumentality of the District of Columbia government, under circumstances in which the statement could reasonably be expected to be relied upon as true; provided, that the writing indicates that the making of a false statement is punishable by criminal penalties or if that person makes an affirmation by signing an entity filing or other document under Title 29 of the District of Columbia Official Code, knowing that the facts stated in the filing are not true in any material respect or if that person makes an affirmation by signing a declaration under § 1-1061.13, knowing that the facts stated in the filing are not true in any material respect;

(b) Any person convicted of making false statements shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or imprisoned for not more than 180 days, or both. A violation of this section shall be prosecuted by the Attorney General for the District of Columbia or one of the Attorney General’s assistants.

[Anonymous]

OK, so why aren't DC residents being punished for engaging in school boundary fraud in the District? Why isn't boundary fraud prosecuted by the AG or DC, ever? Tell us.

If you want that to change, heavy political lifting clearly needs to be done. Stop whining and moralizing on DCUM. Do the lifting instead.