Residency cheaters welcome - the story of Excel Academy PCS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure there are some residency cheaters, but I would bet that most of the MD plates are from car registration scofflaws who actually live in DC. A lot of DC residents who have off-street parking (DC has cracked down on non-DC plates frequently parked on the street in DC) use a relative's address in MD to register their cars to keep their insurance low. Many of my neighbors do this--it's not good, but they are actually DC residents.

Where do you live? Car reg in dc is very cheap. I can't imagine foregoing street parking just to save a few bucks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure there are some residency cheaters, but I would bet that most of the MD plates are from car registration scofflaws who actually live in DC. A lot of DC residents who have off-street parking (DC has cracked down on non-DC plates frequently parked on the street in DC) use a relative's address in MD to register their cars to keep their insurance low. Many of my neighbors do this--it's not good, but they are actually DC residents.

I doubt this.

This is true especially for Hispanic residents. It's easier to obtain a license etc. in MD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure there are some residency cheaters, but I would bet that most of the MD plates are from car registration scofflaws who actually live in DC. A lot of DC residents who have off-street parking (DC has cracked down on non-DC plates frequently parked on the street in DC) use a relative's address in MD to register their cars to keep their insurance low. Many of my neighbors do this--it's not good, but they are actually DC residents.

Where do you live? Car reg in dc is very cheap. I can't imagine foregoing street parking just to save a few bucks.

Riggs Park in NE DC. It's not the car registration fee itself, it's the insurance savings. I would say a significant minority of my neighbors (20%??) have MD plates--many of them have decent-sized parking pads behind their houses, so not parking on the street isn't a hardship. Drive through some alleys with driveways behind houses in some of the not-so-affluent parts of the city with townhouses and single-family homes if you think I'm crazy. I think extended families helping each other out with school pick up and drop off (there are MD plates at my DC daycare when auntie from Hyattsville picks up little Larla who lives in NE DC) is also fairly common. I'm sure there are still a good number of residency cheaters, but I think MD plates alone do not constitute solid evidence of residency cheating.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And this is why, as a teacher in DCPS I never turn in the kids who live in MD. A child is money for the school. Admin does not care where they live.

I teach in DCPS as well. You're just a coward looking for excuses not to act, or you're at a very low performing or under - enrolled school with no waitlist. Because for most of the school's that residency cheats want in to, reporting the cheats has barely any effect on per pupil funding because plenty of actual DC residents are waiting to jump into those spots.

Whoa. Fuck off! I teach at a title 1 school. So don't knock me for knowing the lay of the land. Our principal wants kids at her school. She will take them from anywhere. If I report a kid she will retaliate. Just like what happened at excel.
Sorry I'm not coasting along at janney. You are a bitch.

I'm a teacher too, not the OP, if there really a need to curse to get your point across?

[Anonymous]

I saw a CMI sticker with new Maryland temp tags. I wonder if other parents will turn that car in with the school's long waitlist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And this is why, as a teacher in DCPS I never turn in the kids who live in MD. A child is money for the school. Admin does not care where they live.

I teach in DCPS as well. You're just a coward looking for excuses not to act, or you're at a very low performing or under - enrolled school with no waitlist. Because for most of the school's that residency cheats want in to, reporting the cheats has barely any effect on per pupil funding because plenty of actual DC residents are waiting to jump into those spots.

Whoa. Fuck off! I teach at a title 1 school. So don't knock me for knowing the lay of the land. Our principal wants kids at her school. She will take them from anywhere. If I report a kid she will retaliate. Just like what happened at excel.
Sorry I'm not coasting along at janney. You are a bitch.

I'm a teacher too, not the OP, if there really a need to curse to get your point across?

I'm not any of the PPs either, but this response is absurd. Let me guess, teacher, you don't live in DC either? Yeah, it's no problem when your tax money isn't being stolen. You appear unfit for childhood education.

[Anonymous]

No idiots. I do live in DC. Just loved the PPs idea that either 1. I am a coward or 2. There is perfectly legitimate reason why I don't report. I'm tired of folks in Tenleytown acting like they have ANY idea what the real DCPS is like. Step into our world- and you will realize.

[Anonymous]

Your reply does nothing to condone the theft that you seem okay with. It matters not if the poster is from Tenleytown or Barry Farm: you and others like you are enabling the theft of tax dollars. There is no justification.

Would it be okay if I stole in the course of my job? My boss wants all the money the firm can get? And, plus, our mission is to help ordinary folks, and we'd be stealing it from the very, very rich.

Your (lack of) reasoning borders on absurdity and you're attempts at misdirection (...listen Janney lady...) indicates that it's an intentional level of deceit.

[Anonymous]

Did you ever wonder why your "principal wants kids at her school" and that "she will take them from anywhere"? That never seemed curious to you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure there are some residency cheaters, but I would bet that most of the MD plates are from car registration scofflaws who actually live in DC. A lot of DC residents who have off-street parking (DC has cracked down on non-DC plates frequently parked on the street in DC) use a relative's address in MD to register their cars to keep their insurance low. Many of my neighbors do this--it's not good, but they are actually DC residents.

Where do you live? Car reg in dc is very cheap. I can't imagine foregoing street parking just to save a few bucks.

It's more of an insurance scam and it is definitely enough of a savings to be "worth it" from a cost-benefits analysis in the minds of those who attempt it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw a CMI sticker with new Maryland temp tags. I wonder if other parents will turn that car in with the school's long waitlist.

I would assume that person bought a car from a dealer in MD, but if it didn't change after a while I might try snooping some more. They aren't going to investigate just based on a license plate, so I'd want to gather anything I could before making a report (both so I didn't falsely report and so the investigation could be as successful as possible).

[Anonymous]

Don't you need more than just a license plate to report residency fraud? I remember looking at the rules on another thread here indicating that was the case.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is this school's performance like? If it's dismal then it's charter should be pulled. I didn't realize that public funds could be used for single sex education. Not sure how I feel about that.

Excel is the all girls school and then there is an all boys school- but the name escapes me.
Both of them suck- in terms of actually educating kids. So not much 'education' going on. Just a waste of public funds- in general.

Seriously -- if only some of these students were equally effective as academic cheaters as their parents in residency cheating maybe some of these schools would show less than abysmal achievement indicators.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't you need more than just a license plate to report residency fraud? I remember looking at the rules on another thread here indicating that was the case.

I posted this unthread:

You need the child's name. A plate doesn't prove anything. Now if the plates are registered to the parent on the registration paperwork, you have a case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw a CMI sticker with new Maryland temp tags. I wonder if other parents will turn that car in with the school's long waitlist.

Really, temp tags. You are stretching it. There is probably one dealership ( it's moving to Bethesda soon) that's in DC. Most people buy their cars in VA or MD so of course your going to have temp tags from that state until you get your hard ones.