Racine files residency fraud lawsuits against 6 Maryland parents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Schools involved:

CHML
Hyde
McKinley Tech
Ellington
Ballou
Richard Wright PCS
Hardy
Wheatley

All else aside, I cannot imagine cheating to get my kid into Ballou.

Shows how difficult to prosecute as also filed false Food Stamp docs, that's why shouldn't be up to the schools. Re. Ballou didn't the teacher of the year who also committed residency fraud have some of her kids at Ballou? Think husband worked there as a coach or something.

A few of them are DC employees. I assume if their employment info including "state" withholding is not a DC address this might meet the minimum bar for evidence that they are not DC residents?

If any of the cheaters works for the DC government in any capacity, why aren't such persons summarily fired? They've demonstrated through their fraud that they are unworthy of being placed in a position of public trust.

Innocent until proven guilty is a foreign concept to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see people complain on this board all the time about Maryland plates at DC schools.... if the DMV can determine where people live why can't DCPS? Are enrollee families not required to show evidence of residency before being admitted?

- Sincerely, parent to 2019-2020 PK3 student showing my ignorance

I haven't gotten to the end yet but a lot of families have family members that live in DC. I know someone that lives in MD but her parents live in DC. She uses their address for her son's school.

IMO, coming from a school system outside of DC, it was much harder to prove residency there. We could only use a utility bill in our names or a signed lease/mortgage. In DC you can use a DC license and a car registration. That absolutely does not prove you live in a household in DC.

I am pretty sure the DMV requires TWO proofs or residency and only accepts leases, mortgage, and utility bills. I think it makes sense to require this of one parent or legal guardian for each kid you enroll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see people complain on this board all the time about Maryland plates at DC schools.... if the DMV can determine where people live why can't DCPS? Are enrollee families not required to show evidence of residency before being admitted?

- Sincerely, parent to 2019-2020 PK3 student showing my ignorance

Yes you have to show proof of residency.

It seems one of the more common forms of residency fraud is that a family lives in Maryland but uses the address of a person living in DC (often a close relative) as their enrollment address. They may keep a DC driver's license with that address, register their car there, or have a utility bill in their name.

If you present legitimate documents that meet the requirement, how is the registrar to know if you are committing fraud.

The way people get caught is a) sloppy fraudulent documents b) someone reporting that they know Suzy Q lives elsewhere.

It's also complicated because many, many kids have parents who are divorced or separated or never married who live in separate jurisdictions. If you have one parent who legitimately lives in DC, the regulations say that is enough for you to enroll. The rules do not get into definitions of what constitutes residency, custodial parents and so forth. The rules have to be flexible to handle this reality and also enforce the law.

In one case here they also were in receipt of benefits in DC, no way registrar would know. Look at the uproar on here about Ellington criticizing the investigation, sometimes you can't win for trying. A registrar is not a police officer they can only accept what is provided but not their job to also be detectives, if it passes the sniff test they have to take it.

But the Ellington ones couldn't even pass the sniff test (which every school got). Their paperwork/records were so poorly done by the registrar that they pulled every student file. That was and is an Ellington problem.

[Anonymous]

How can a DC employee have a different address for employment and tax withholding - than the address they live at and use to register their child for school?

Shouldn't this be the 1st check for comparing records across the city?

[Anonymous]

Whatt if the child stays with grandma sometimes in DC, but mom lives in MD? Is that allowed? Like, legally speaking, what is the requirement because like some have said, people tend to go back and forth a lot and have family all over the area Easy enough to put your mom's gas bill in your name. I have neighbors like this is why I ask; kid is at an HRCS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatt if the child stays with grandma sometimes in DC, but mom lives in MD? Is that allowed? Like, legally speaking, what is the requirement because like some have said, people tend to go back and forth a lot and have family all over the area Easy enough to put your mom's gas bill in your name. I have neighbors like this is why I ask; kid is at an HRCS.

I know that is common, for sure. However, I'm not sure that's what happened in the cases that Racine decided to procescute--it seems these 6 cases would be more clear-cut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatt if the child stays with grandma sometimes in DC, but mom lives in MD? Is that allowed? Like, legally speaking, what is the requirement because like some have said, people tend to go back and forth a lot and have family all over the area Easy enough to put your mom's gas bill in your name. I have neighbors like this is why I ask; kid is at an HRCS.

I don't think this should matter. Just anyone shouldn't be able to enroll a kid in school.... only a parent or legal guardian. Unless the parent is granting guardianship to a grandparent it shouldn't matter if the grandparents lives in DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatt if the child stays with grandma sometimes in DC, but mom lives in MD? Is that allowed? Like, legally speaking, what is the requirement because like some have said, people tend to go back and forth a lot and have family all over the area Easy enough to put your mom's gas bill in your name. I have neighbors like this is why I ask; kid is at an HRCS.

I know that is common, for sure. However, I'm not sure that's what happened in the cases that Racine decided to procescute--it seems these 6 cases would be more clear-cut.

PP again. What I meant is not that mom is using grandma's address for sake of convenience, but that some children are actually in unstable/transient living environments, where they literally sometimes live with mom, or with grandma when mom is not doing well, then back to mom or dad, etc.

[Anonymous]

Ironic that he is pro illegals using services but against Marylanders lol hypocrisy

Last night I filed several comments opposing the Trump admin’s #publiccharge rule proposal that would throw up arbitrary roadblocks to lawful #immigration and punishes legal immigrants who use nutrition, housing, and medical assistance programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ironic that he is pro illegals using services but against Marylanders lol hypocrisy

Last night I filed several comments opposing the Trump admin’s #publiccharge rule proposal that would throw up arbitrary roadblocks to lawful #immigration and punishes legal immigrants who use nutrition, housing, and medical assistance programs.

Right? Because those MD residents can't get free public education in Md ... oh wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatt if the child stays with grandma sometimes in DC, but mom lives in MD? Is that allowed? Like, legally speaking, what is the requirement because like some have said, people tend to go back and forth a lot and have family all over the area Easy enough to put your mom's gas bill in your name. I have neighbors like this is why I ask; kid is at an HRCS.

I know that is common, for sure. However, I'm not sure that's what happened in the cases that Racine decided to procescute--it seems these 6 cases would be more clear-cut.

PP again. What I meant is not that mom is using grandma's address for sake of convenience, but that some children are actually in unstable/transient living environments, where they literally sometimes live with mom, or with grandma when mom is not doing well, then back to mom or dad, etc.

In those cases, there is usually no reason why the kids can't still go to their home school in MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ironic that he is pro illegals using services but against Marylanders lol hypocrisy

Last night I filed several comments opposing the Trump admin’s #publiccharge rule proposal that would throw up arbitrary roadblocks to lawful #immigration and punishes legal immigrants who use nutrition, housing, and medical assistance programs.

People aren’t illegal. That’s a racial slur.

Don’t be disgusting. These are revolting freeloaders who are taking spots from DC residents so they can steal free or reduced aftercare.

Pp you make me sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ironic that he is pro illegals using services but against Marylanders lol hypocrisy

Last night I filed several comments opposing the Trump admin’s #publiccharge rule proposal that would throw up arbitrary roadblocks to lawful #immigration and punishes legal immigrants who use nutrition, housing, and medical assistance programs.

People aren’t illegal. That’s a racial slur.

Don’t be disgusting. These are revolting freeloaders who are taking spots from DC residents so they can steal free or reduced aftercare.

Pp you make me sick.

Don't even get worked up--I highly doubt this person lives anywhere near DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see people complain on this board all the time about Maryland plates at DC schools.... if the DMV can determine where people live why can't DCPS? Are enrollee families not required to show evidence of residency before being admitted?

- Sincerely, parent to 2019-2020 PK3 student showing my ignorance

I haven't gotten to the end yet but a lot of families have family members that live in DC. I know someone that lives in MD but her parents live in DC. She uses their address for her son's school.

IMO, coming from a school system outside of DC, it was much harder to prove residency there. We could only use a utility bill in our names or a signed lease/mortgage. In DC you can use a DC license and a car registration. That absolutely does not prove you live in a household in DC.

I am pretty sure the DMV requires TWO proofs or residency and only accepts leases, mortgage, and utility bills. I think it makes sense to require this of one parent or legal guardian for each kid you enroll.

A license is one and a car registration is the other.

https://www.myschooldc.org/enroll/dc-residency-requirements

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seeking back tuition and damages of $700,000

https://twitter.com/AGKarlRacine/status/1072907015859683328

Good to see some action.