Going to School in a Different District

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?"

Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity.

Did FCPS end pupil placement for reasons of academic programming (like allowing a student to leave an AP HS to attend the nearest IB HS instead, or vice versa)? Not that I know of. How have you "lost your right to request a pupil placement"? Asking seriously. I have never been aware that for high school, there was any pupil placement allowed except for AP/IB programs or for instances where a student had been severely bullied or had other issues that meant he or she had to be separated from other students at the base HS. Maybe some form of sibling placement. But other than those, what "right" got altered that affected your kid(s)?

Referring specifically to AP/IB pupil placement. For those of us in the southern/central part of the county, WSHS and Woodson are now closed to transfers for AP because they're beyond capacity. LBSS has capacity but that's such an enormous school already that we had reservations about it. In any case, with so many overcrowded schools now the options for pupil placement have dwindled across the county. Although the issue is primarily in the eastern central half where IB is concentrated.

The solution is electing School Board members who’ll revisit saddling so many schools with IB.

[Anonymous]

Look at the college decisions pages on Instagram for the lower ranked FCPS schools. Many of those students are getting into top schools with merit aid. Personally, I would stay put if I were you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at the college decisions pages on Instagram for the lower ranked FCPS schools. Many of those students are getting into top schools with merit aid. Personally, I would stay put if I were you.

Did you read OP? She said her kids are miserable and getting bullied. But, sure, hold out because you might be one of the 5 out of 500 getting a free ride to UVA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No you cannot use your rental address unless you live there. Don’t cheat. Move if so important to you.

+ 1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for the responses. It gives me something to think about. My problem is that we have renters in all locations. I know how it sounds, I have rental properties, and I am crying about schools. I just want the best for my family. Again Thank you!

Tell them you won’t be renewing their leases.

+ 1 move for the better schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?"

Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity.

Why shouldn’t everyone at the title 1 school get to go to a wealthier school, under that logic? Why are you special?

+1 Poors need to stay in schools for poors. FCPS spent a lot of effort drawing lines to avoid mixing.

OP isn’t poor. They would rather have multiple rental properties than send their kid to a school they deem good in a legal manner. There are lots of families at title 1 schools who would love to send their kids to a wealthy school but they can’t and don’t try to bend the rules like OP is.

If OP could afford to live in one of their houses in a better district and rent out their house in the worst district, they would.

If OP can afford to own multiple houses in NoVa they can afford to live full-time in the one in the better school district. This isn’t some low-income family. OP should sell the properties they can’t afford if need be.

+100

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a good location, own a few rental properties. The school in my district are at risk schools, and rated near the bottom for Fairfax County. My kids are miserable. We have issues with bullies.
My rental properties are in very good school districts. I was thinking of using one of these properties listing it as my home so I can get my kids into the better school district. I know it's not the right thing to do, and its dishonest, but I need my kids out of the other school. Does anyone have a suggestion, or have you done something like this?

The market value/rent of your rental properties is linked to their schools. You need to give up one rental and use that one as residence. It may cost you some income if the rental value of your home is lower. But, so what if it does. Many people pay up for good schools and so can you.

Don’t cheat and put your kids in a lie. Many lower income families like us work
for kids education and give up on other stuff. You are not poor why do you want to complain and cheat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?"

Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity.

Why shouldn’t everyone at the title 1 school get to go to a wealthier school, under that logic? Why are you special?

+1 Poors need to stay in schools for poors. FCPS spent a lot of effort drawing lines to avoid mixing.

OP isn’t poor. They would rather have multiple rental properties than send their kid to a school they deem good in a legal manner. There are lots of families at title 1 schools who would love to send their kids to a wealthy school but they can’t and don’t try to bend the rules like OP is.

If OP could afford to live in one of their houses in a better district and rent out their house in the worst district, they would.

If OP can afford to own multiple houses in NoVa they can afford to live full-time in the one in the better school district. This isn’t some low-income family. OP should sell the properties they can’t afford if need be.

+1. This is what we did and if I find out someone is participating in residency fraud in my overcrowded pyramid I will be the first to rat on them.

[Anonymous]

My experience (in a good school but dysfunctional system) is that administration generally turned a blind eye if the kids weren’t disruptive. In cases where the kid caused trouble daily, they followed protocol to the letter, sent certified letters etc, and kids out of district had to move.

This was a secondary school. I imagine it would be easier to fudge it then because the boundaries are bigger, kids meet up places more than hang out at home. My kids have a number of friends whose homes they haven’t been to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My experience (in a good school but dysfunctional system) is that administration generally turned a blind eye if the kids weren’t disruptive. In cases where the kid caused trouble daily, they followed protocol to the letter, sent certified letters etc, and kids out of district had to move.

This was a secondary school. I imagine it would be easier to fudge it then because the boundaries are bigger, kids meet up places more than hang out at home. My kids have a number of friends whose homes they haven’t been to.

If there is a complaint to admin which happens more than you think and not worth it for your kids so if you are not poor just move to where you want go to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?"

Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity.

Why shouldn’t everyone at the title 1 school get to go to a wealthier school, under that logic? Why are you special?

+1 Poors need to stay in schools for poors. FCPS spent a lot of effort drawing lines to avoid mixing.

OP isn’t poor. They would rather have multiple rental properties than send their kid to a school they deem good in a legal manner. There are lots of families at title 1 schools who would love to send their kids to a wealthy school but they can’t and don’t try to bend the rules like OP is.

If OP could afford to live in one of their houses in a better district and rent out their house in the worst district, they would.

If OP can afford to own multiple houses in NoVa they can afford to live full-time in the one in the better school district. This isn’t some low-income family. OP should sell the properties they can’t afford if need be.

+1. This is what we did and if I find out someone is participating in residency fraud in my overcrowded pyramid I will be the first to rat on them.

+ 1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?"

Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity.

Why shouldn’t everyone at the title 1 school get to go to a wealthier school, under that logic? Why are you special?

+1 Poors need to stay in schools for poors. FCPS spent a lot of effort drawing lines to avoid mixing.

OP isn’t poor. They would rather have multiple rental properties than send their kid to a school they deem good in a legal manner. There are lots of families at title 1 schools who would love to send their kids to a wealthy school but they can’t and don’t try to bend the rules like OP is.

If OP could afford to live in one of their houses in a better district and rent out their house in the worst district, they would.

If OP can afford to own multiple houses in NoVa they can afford to live full-time in the one in the better school district. This isn’t some low-income family. OP should sell the properties they can’t afford if need be.

+1. This is what we did and if I find out someone is participating in residency fraud in my overcrowded pyramid I will be the first to rat on them.

How do you expect to find out and rat one someone? Teens with their attention spans don't care about any of this. I tell my kid to tell anyone who asks that he transferred there because his relative works at the school doing IT. That's literally the end of their conversations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My experience (in a good school but dysfunctional system) is that administration generally turned a blind eye if the kids weren’t disruptive. In cases where the kid caused trouble daily, they followed protocol to the letter, sent certified letters etc, and kids out of district had to move.

This was a secondary school. I imagine it would be easier to fudge it then because the boundaries are bigger, kids meet up places more than hang out at home. My kids have a number of friends whose homes they haven’t been to.

If there is a complaint to admin which happens more than you think and not worth it for your kids so if you are not poor just move to where you want go to school.

But again, people won’t complain about a nice kid who tries hard and isn’t a jerk to other kids. If I heard my kid’s bully is out of district I would complain. If a really sweet kid is, I’m going to mind my own business. Not my problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for the responses. It gives me something to think about. My problem is that we have renters in all locations. I know how it sounds, I have rental properties, and I am crying about schools. I just want the best for my family. Again Thank you!

Check when their leases are up. Give the proper notice and you'll be good.

[Anonymous]

The fact is that it only takes one person to complain. It doesn't matter if most people wouldn't.

I also think that being out of district poses more of an issue than a school within the same district.