Tell me how this residency requirement works

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Okay I know there are some eagle eyed, Maryland license plate following parents out there so I'm sure you are very well-versed on all of the laws regarding this. We currently live in DC and our daughter is in a DC Charter School but we really want to move to Maryland. If you move once the school year starts then how does that work? Or another possibility is moving now but renting out the house. In other words isn't it really about paying taxes in DC? As long as we don't sell the house it doesn't really matter where we live, correct?

Wrong. If you use the address of a house you are renting out, while actually living in Maryland, you are committing residency fraud. Period.

Ask DC police officers Alan and Candice Hill http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/DC-Attorney-General-Suing-Two-Police-Officers-for-Claiming-False-DC-Residency-and-Sending-Their-Children-to-School-For-Free-307056701.html

Those idiots file a court case for non payment of rent. DUMB...should of rented to family or someone they knew would pay..there by avoid having to go to court.

[Anonymous]

The cops' ploy was indeed brazen. Good that they got caught to make an example of this type of particularly obnoxious (and bone-headed) cheater.

[Anonymous]

In a Manhattan school people would have enough compassion not to disrupt a child's education mid-year. We had friends who moved to NJ mid-year and commited in with their kid to keep her with her school until year end. One of them worked in Brooklyn anyway, and they had family there.

Another notable example you've never heard of, because you are provincial as hell, is the girl profiled in the homeless series by the times reporter a few years back. Although her family was bounced around to homeless shelters in the Bronx and Manhattan, her brooklyn school's principal made a point of keeping a safe place for her at the school in Brooklyn.

In so many cases, we are talking about financially strapped families, whose kids need the stability. Because of this I honestly think it is 1.) None of my business and 2.) Up to the school's professional staff and the caregivers of the child in question. Much as I am not mean-spirited enough to question your list of itemized deductions, or how you got that down payment for your house on your 125k salary, I also do not question your parenting choices, as it is not my job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay I know there are some eagle eyed, Maryland license plate following parents out there so I'm sure you are very well-versed on all of the laws regarding this. We currently live in DC and our daughter is in a DC Charter School but we really want to move to Maryland. If you move once the school year starts then how does that work? Or another possibility is moving now but renting out the house. In other words isn't it really about paying taxes in DC? As long as we don't sell the house it doesn't really matter where we live, correct?

Not correct. If you are not a DC resident then you need to withdraw from the school funded in part by the income tax that should have been paid to DC and enroll your daughter in a Maryland school funded in part by the income taxes paid to the state and county. Alternatively, you can pay for the privilege of continuing to send your daughter to a DC school even if you don't sell your property in DC. Otherwise you could rent said property to a family which could claim it as their residence at the same time you are doing so. In short, unless you can make a reasonable showing that you physically reside at both properties (e.g., the Maryland home is used in weekends), you are in violation of DC law. Should there be an investigation by OSSE, although I doubt there would be, they would look to whether you are claiming a homestead exemption on your DC property, where your vehicles are registered, where you are registered to vote, where your driver's licences are issued, where your tax bills are sent, your income tax returns and other indicia of residency.

Does DCPS cross-check addresses to see if different families are listed at same address (eg the owner & family they are Renton to?)

[Anonymous]

Might you be a dirty loser cheater? Indeed, you might. You might also be a sad-eyed soccer mom with a xanex problem and a giant SUV that you drive while on it. Or, you could be both.

I'm not sure why this continues to be a topic of discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a Manhattan school people would have enough compassion not to disrupt a child's education mid-year. We had friends who moved to NJ mid-year and commited in with their kid to keep her with her school until year end. One of them worked in Brooklyn anyway, and they had family there.

Another notable example you've never heard of, because you are provincial as hell, is the girl profiled in the homeless series by the times reporter a few years back. Although her family was bounced around to homeless shelters in the Bronx and Manhattan, her brooklyn school's principal made a point of keeping a safe place for her at the school in Brooklyn.

In so many cases, we are talking about financially strapped families, whose kids need the stability. Because of this I honestly think it is 1.) None of my business and 2.) Up to the school's professional staff and the caregivers of the child in question. Much as I am not mean-spirited enough to question your list of itemized deductions, or how you got that down payment for your house on your 125k salary, I also do not question your parenting choices, as it is not my job.

Homeless students in DC are treated the same way as you describe in the Brooklyn example. They can stay while their housing is in flux.

[Anonymous]

Except, as we've seen over and over again here on these boards, they can be stalked and harrassed if their caregivers have out of state plates.

It's like the words, "it's none of my business" have no meaning to some of you.

[Anonymous]

How about DC residents that will have a temporary residence in a different school boundary? We are renovating our house and thinking of renting a place some friends are moving out of-the friends will be out by mid-summer. If we rent it, live in it, still own another property close by but in another school district in DC, can we send our child to the new district? When we do move back to the house a few months later do we have to remove them from the school, or can we keep them there until the end of the school year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about DC residents that will have a temporary residence in a different school boundary? We are renovating our house and thinking of renting a place some friends are moving out of-the friends will be out by mid-summer. If we rent it, live in it, still own another property close by but in another school district in DC, can we send our child to the new district? When we do move back to the house a few months later do we have to remove them from the school, or can we keep them there until the end of the school year?

You can stay put in the school.