residency cheater in Janney PK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boundary restrictions don't apply for pre-k. However, they must live somewhere in the District. If they live in Maryland they should be reported.

My DD at Deal says its common knowledge that a bunch of students live in MD not DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boundary restrictions don't apply for pre-k. However, they must live somewhere in the District. If they live in Maryland they should be reported.

My DD at Deal says its common knowledge that a bunch of students live in MD not DC.

When my kids were in elementary there was one family that listed as their address an IB house that had been seized by the bank in a protracted sub-prime foreclosure. They didn't live there, nobody lived there. The dad was in the real estate business and found the house through his connections. I don't know what documents they used to demonstrate residency, a forged lease makes the most sense, you can type that up in a word processor. Coincidentally the next-door neighbors had a kid in the same class as one of their kids.

Both kids went on to Deal, even though we're not IB for Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, please. Just because the OP isn't giving specifics doesn't mean they don't know something. Yes, it sucks that parents are called on to rat each other out, but OSSE doesn't do a good job of finding residency cheaters. There's no danger that a grandparent or babysitter is going to be mistaken for a genuine fraud.

OP, report and move on. They may be legit, maybe not.

This. Report and move on. If it's all good, no harm, foul. I'm legitimately enrolled at a HRCS. If someone called to say I was reported I'd say come on over to my house and have a look, or give them a copy of whatever proof they needed. Done. We live in a city with very limited resources where people have to be vultures to make sure their kid isn't cheated. I get it. Investigate me. Big deal in light of the circumstances. Remember people, honest people have nothing to hide. Also, after enough cheaters get called out, they'll stop. Something has to get this going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, my problem with you is that you posted this here on DCUM. You could have reported the information you found directly to the school. The only reason to post this on DCUM is to stir sh- -. The kid in the middle of this pile is a 4 year old who will now, undoubtedly be the topic of playground gossip. Very tacky. You have far too much time on your hands.

NP here. Believe me, we're not gonna know who the 4 year old is and even if we did, there may be a lot of a-holes on here, but I can't think on one "person" I've encountered on here who would do harm to an innocent 4 year old. Get a grip. What will happen is the a-hole parent who gamed the system will be in a lot of sh--, the same type you said OP was trying to stir. After that, said child will be removed and go elsewhere without a clue as to what happened. Unless the a-hole parent is such a douche, they'd mention the mishap to the kid. Given that the parent is a lying sack of sh-- to begin with, I wouldn't put it past them. You people on here need to stop protecting liars and cheaters and have some sympathy for the IBs kids that are being stolen from. My sympathy is with the 4 year old exploited by negligent parents and them.

[Anonymous]

Its not creepy. If you were in-bound for Janney, a school that has had two expansions in the last three years due to overcrowding, you would wonder too when you see all the Maryland license plates in the morning. They are not looking up a four year old, they are looking up the child's family address.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boundary restrictions don't apply for pre-k. However, they must live somewhere in the District. If they live in Maryland they should be reported.

Are you crazy? Trust me, with 40 kids in-bound for Janney on the wait list, boundary restrictions absolutely counted for PreK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, my problem with you is that you posted this here on DCUM. You could have reported the information you found directly to the school. The only reason to post this on DCUM is to stir sh- -. The kid in the middle of this pile is a 4 year old who will now, undoubtedly be the topic of playground gossip. Very tacky. You have far too much time on your hands.

NP here. Believe me, we're not gonna know who the 4 year old is and even if we did, there may be a lot of a-holes on here, but I can't think on one "person" I've encountered on here who would do harm to an innocent 4 year old. Get a grip. What will happen is the a-hole parent who gamed the system will be in a lot of sh--, the same type you said OP was trying to stir. After that, said child will be removed and go elsewhere without a clue as to what happened. Unless the a-hole parent is such a douche, they'd mention the mishap to the kid. Given that the parent is a lying sack of sh-- to begin with, I wouldn't put it past them. You people on here need to stop protecting liars and cheaters and have some sympathy for the IBs kids that are being stolen from. My sympathy is with the 4 year old exploited by negligent parents and them.

Except that you've already decided their parent is "a lying sack of sh-- to begin with." Before you know what the facts are. What does it make you if it turns out you're wrong? You think that parent is going to be interested in standing around socializing?

And while you're in suspicion mode, you've lost . . . What, exactly?

[Anonymous]

I can't tell you the amount of Maryland tags picking up and dropping off at Stuart Hobson. It's ridiculous. There's no way all of those are nannies, or parents with special circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its not creepy. If you were in-bound for Janney, a school that has had two expansions in the last three years due to overcrowding, you would wonder too when you see all the Maryland license plates in the morning. They are not looking up a four year old, they are looking up the child's family address.

How do you know the parents names to look up the address? I am known at the school as so and so's mom. I have no identity other than as my child's mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its not creepy. If you were in-bound for Janney, a school that has had two expansions in the last three years due to overcrowding, you would wonder too when you see all the Maryland license plates in the morning. They are not looking up a four year old, they are looking up the child's family address.

If it's so overcrowded at Janney, I hear there is room at Hearst...redo the boundaries...oh wait...Janney already said there was no need for that..plenty of room...

I agree that the residency fraud must be stopped, no question. But this is an interesting thread, Janney friends, get ready for the "set asides".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its not creepy. If you were in-bound for Janney, a school that has had two expansions in the last three years due to overcrowding, you would wonder too when you see all the Maryland license plates in the morning. They are not looking up a four year old, they are looking up the child's family address.

Janney is on the MOCO boundary. I can't I,imagine someone from Bethesda or Rockville cheating to get a spot at Janney. I also cannot imagine someone schlepping an hour plus from PG to upper northwest during rush hour and then downtown to work. I am not buying it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its not creepy. If you were in-bound for Janney, a school that has had two expansions in the last three years due to overcrowding, you would wonder too when you see all the Maryland license plates in the morning. They are not looking up a four year old, they are looking up the child's family address.

Janney is on the MOCO boundary. I can't I,imagine someone from Bethesda or Rockville cheating to get a spot at Janney. I also cannot imagine someone schlepping an hour plus from PG to upper northwest during rush hour and then downtown to work. I am not buying it.

but what if they worked at Fannie Mae?

[Anonymous]

The set asides will never work AND the only reason Janney didn't want the boundary redrawn was because it was for about five families -- there's no point. And finally, what do you mean you don't know parents names at your child's school. Are you kidding? I know all the parents. And even if you don't there are these nifty things called "school directories" and email lists.

[Anonymous]

Fannie Mae folks either like the international aspect, so they would go for Stoddert, or they have enough money to do Sidwell. Probably not interested in Janney.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The set asides will never work AND the only reason Janney didn't want the boundary redrawn was because it was for about five families -- there's no point. And finally, what do you mean you don't know parents names at your child's school. Are you kidding? I know all the parents. And even if you don't there are these nifty things called "school directories" and email lists.

Ok, I'll bite.

Why won't the set asides work?

As for the boundaries, then they should have taken a larger section of the Janney boundary.