Residency Fraud

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Greedy?

Yes - greedy. Assuming that you are in a position to decide who "deserves" to go to Murch. I find most Murch posters to be insufferable. Whining now about their lack of underground parking. Wah wah wah.

What should not be debatable is that a student living outside DC but fraudulently enrolled in DCPS does not deserve to be at Murch or at any other DC public or charter school.

[Anonymous]

PG=8th Ward

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PG=8th Ward

"Ward 9," actually.

[Anonymous]

"Residency fraud" is a code-word for I don't want black kids at my school. No one cared about this issue until white started living outside NW. Now that white people have pushed out the black people to PG, they create more excuses to gentrify the city by getting people riled up about "residency fraud". The plan is at work.

[Anonymous]

My neighbors have MD plates on their car, and they lived in the house (actually his whole life) well before my family moved in. I think it might be easier to register a car there, or he has a work reason for this? Despite that, he's at least 2nd gen Washingtonian, and his kids are 3rd Gen. I wonder if they get crap from their kid's school as well...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors have MD plates on their car, and they lived in the house (actually his whole life) well before my family moved in. I think it might be easier to register a car there, or he has a work reason for this? Despite that, he's at least 2nd gen Washingtonian, and his kids are 3rd Gen. I wonder if they get crap from their kid's school as well...

They certainly should get crap from the DC Department of Motor Vehicles and the MPD, for failure to register a motor vehicle and automotive insurance fraud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Residency fraud" is a code-word for I don't want black kids at my school. No one cared about this issue until white started living outside NW. Now that white people have pushed out the black people to PG, they create more excuses to gentrify the city by getting people riled up about "residency fraud". The plan is at work.

Under what possible rationale should the taxpayers of Washington DC provide a free public education to (and allow scarce slots to be taken by) students who live in PG ... or MoCo, Fairfax, Arlington or anywhere else outside the District?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Residency fraud" is a code-word for I don't want black kids at my school. No one cared about this issue until white started living outside NW. Now that white people have pushed out the black people to PG, they create more excuses to gentrify the city by getting people riled up about "residency fraud". The plan is at work.

Not always. Based on what people are willing to say in public (surely some won't even admit it), I'd venture that there are dozens of upper income families of all races renting cheapest efficiency apartments in the Deal zone--and not living there--so as to have the address for those 3 middle school years. That's also a form of residency fraud, and a whole lot of wealthy people engage in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school has a somewhat notorious OOB family that uses a rental property address to poach a coveted PK spot. DCPS could not care less.

Why should it? It has more important things to worry about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school has a somewhat notorious OOB family that uses a rental property address to poach a coveted PK spot. DCPS could not care less.

Why should it? It has more important things to worry about.

Try posting this the day after the lottery when families are shut out because some thief from Maryland has stolen their seat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Some people clearly feel they have nothing to worry about. Like, the sort of people who will slap a Murch bumpersticker 4 inches away from their Maryland license plate and drive away from a grossly over-enrolled school.

right.... because it isn't possible that this is the nanny, the babysitter, or one half of a divorced couple. MYOB and stop being so greedy.

Seriously. This kind of mentality is so messed up.

pp: Only look in someone else's bowl to make sure they have enough.

You sound like my children who are obsessed with petty comparisons to make sure everything is even (as if "equal" and "fair" are the same things -- they're not.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school has a somewhat notorious OOB family that uses a rental property address to poach a coveted PK spot. DCPS could not care less.

Why should it? It has more important things to worry about.

Try posting this the day after the lottery when families are shut out because some thief from Maryland has stolen their seat.

Sure, OK. I absolutely will. Get over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Residency fraud" is a code-word for I don't want black kids at my school. No one cared about this issue until white started living outside NW. Now that white people have pushed out the black people to PG, they create more excuses to gentrify the city by getting people riled up about "residency fraud". The plan is at work.

Not always. Based on what people are willing to say in public (surely some won't even admit it), I'd venture that there are dozens of upper income families of all races renting cheapest efficiency apartments in the Deal zone--and not living there--so as to have the address for those 3 middle school years. That's also a form of residency fraud, and a whole lot of wealthy people engage in it.

I have heard of families doing this. I've been in DC a while so I'm finding it funny that parents are cheating for Deal, but times change. Honestly, if you are going to go to that trouble why don't go to private or just move?

[Anonymous]

Our registrar was the residency cheat. Each time (every year) a parent called downtown they said she had a lease. They didn't try very hard to stop her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Residency fraud" is a code-word for I don't want black kids at my school. No one cared about this issue until white started living outside NW. Now that white people have pushed out the black people to PG, they create more excuses to gentrify the city by getting people riled up about "residency fraud". The plan is at work.

Not always. Based on what people are willing to say in public (surely some won't even admit it), I'd venture that there are dozens of upper income families of all races renting cheapest efficiency apartments in the Deal zone--and not living there--so as to have the address for those 3 middle school years. That's also a form of residency fraud, and a whole lot of wealthy people engage in it.

I have heard of families doing this. I've been in DC a while so I'm finding it funny that parents are cheating for Deal, but times change. Honestly, if you are going to go to that trouble why don't go to private or just move?

Well, maybe it's 2 birds with 1 stone. Buy a condo, rent or sublet it out, but use the address.