First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:New to the thread and Bethesda parent. One quick question please because I don't get it. Why on earth would anyone possibly lie to send their kid to DC public (or charter) schools? I paid 7 figures not to send my kid there. Literally every single person I have ever spoke to did/feels the same, what possible insentive would parents have?

Pre-K 3, Pre-K 4 and K all day, and with some Title 1 schools there's extended day (i.e. free aftercare). Schools are also close to work. I wouldn't say it's about the academics. I'd be surprised if MoCo kids were coming into the city.

Me, too. I think it's largely a PG problem.

Why? There are some MOCO schools that are not great. MOCO is not equal. And the classroom sizes are huge with 28 kindergarteners in one class and one teacher. I wonder why you excluded MOCO, but think the other county produces all the scofflaws.

Yup. There's a county culture of corruption.

[Anonymous]

Car dropoffs are still running about 50% Maryland tags at my Capitol Hill public school. In from the east, dropoff, head downtown.

[Anonymous]

You must have so much free time. Not the breadwinner?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New to the thread and Bethesda parent. One quick question please because I don't get it. Why on earth would anyone possibly lie to send their kid to DC public (or charter) schools? I paid 7 figures not to send my kid there. Literally every single person I have ever spoke to did/feels the same, what possible insentive would parents have?

That's so funny because I paid over 7 figures for my fabulous Capitol Hill Victorian and send my kids to a charter school better than any you'd find in Bethesda. Literally everyone I know would do anything to avoid living in Bethesda!

Also, learn to spell.

That's funny because many to most of the houses bought around here seem to be from people coming from the city, especially your part of the city. I lost count of the former Hill people who move to Arlington and Bethesda but I know maybe one who went the other way into the civilized part of the city (let alone somewhere like Ward 4-8) and that was because of both a job transfer and the kids being already in college.

Hell, I would be surprised if you even lived in a part of Capitol Hill that I would even consider Capitol Hill. Your Tone reeks of a Atlas District or even worse Kingmen Park / Barney Circle. Oh I am sorry Hill East.

As to the quality of the Charter system I really think people should stop acting like it is some vetted and proven system, it is far too new and uses the same basic people and Gov reliance so we shale see if it is really going to pay off in a generation. I'll take the proven elite private options around here which make no apologies to any fly by night charter and leave you to your over mortgaged house and social lottery experiment of two middle age former yuppies working random policy jobs who didn't get the memo. And don't rattle off the good private options in DC because I actually live closer to all of them then you do.

Your argument is based on assumptions that are not true. You managed to get everything wrong.

On the upside, you only made a few spelling mistakes! Good for you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Car dropoffs are still running about 50% Maryland tags at my Capitol Hill public school. In from the east, dropoff, head downtown.

Yeah, I've seen that WoTP, there are some nannies with Md. tags driving kids. But on the Hill and EoTP, it's just convenient daycare for mom and they all live in Md. Not many out-of-state nannies here EoTP, and people walk to school because the schools are in compact neighborhoods. Especially with a Title 1 school with extended day, there're going to be a lot of Md. tags (and they're not nannies). I don't think one's going to see nannies dropping kids off at a Title 1 school, or a school that's highly FARMs - that's pretty much any Hill school. Ludlow-Taylor, Watkins, Amidon-Bowen come to mind. It would be good to hear about Tyler and Miner. PP, at what school are you seeing such high rates of fraud?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You must have so much free time. Not the breadwinner?

PP, not everyone is like you with their eyes stuck in their arses. Come up for fresh air!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Car dropoffs are still running about 50% Maryland tags at my Capitol Hill public school. In from the east, dropoff, head downtown.

Yeah, I've seen that WoTP, there are some nannies with Md. tags driving kids. But on the Hill and EoTP, it's just convenient daycare for mom and they all live in Md. Not many out-of-state nannies here EoTP, and people walk to school because the schools are in compact neighborhoods. Especially with a Title 1 school with extended day, there're going to be a lot of Md. tags (and they're not nannies). I don't think one's going to see nannies dropping kids off at a Title 1 school, or a school that's highly FARMs - that's pretty much any Hill school. Ludlow-Taylor, Watkins, Amidon-Bowen come to mind. It would be good to hear about Tyler and Miner. PP, at what school are you seeing such high rates of fraud?

A significant number of the MD fraudster parents even work for the DC government. That's really rich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Car dropoffs are still running about 50% Maryland tags at my Capitol Hill public school. In from the east, dropoff, head downtown.

Yeah, I've seen that WoTP, there are some nannies with Md. tags driving kids. But on the Hill and EoTP, it's just convenient daycare for mom and they all live in Md. Not many out-of-state nannies here EoTP, and people walk to school because the schools are in compact neighborhoods. Especially with a Title 1 school with extended day, there're going to be a lot of Md. tags (and they're not nannies). I don't think one's going to see nannies dropping kids off at a Title 1 school, or a school that's highly FARMs - that's pretty much any Hill school. Ludlow-Taylor, Watkins, Amidon-Bowen come to mind. It would be good to hear about Tyler and Miner. PP, at what school are you seeing such high rates of fraud?

You should film the line of MD cars and then show it to the principal for his/her reaction. Then call the DC fraud investigators, particularly if the principal isn't interested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8:35 @ Amidon -Bowen. 4 MD tags and 1 VA tag dropping off kids right in front of the school. No other cars, and no principal. Don't tell me they're nannies; this is a title 1 school with extended day.

8:40 @ Amidon -Bowen. 3 MD tags, 1 VA tag and 1 DC tag dropping off kids right in front of the school. No other cars, and no principal.

[Anonymous]

I should start keeping track at Stuart Hobson. It's truly ridiculous the number of MD tags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I should start keeping track at Stuart Hobson. It's truly ridiculous the number of MD tags.

Make sure you report the NY NJ and PA tags I see too. I'm too busy to do so.

[Anonymous]

Complain to your council member. They have to answer to voters. DCPS bureaucrats do not.

[Anonymous]

Helping out at our school a couple of years ago, I was given the address of a family, which turned out to be a cleaning / shoe repair place. I told the principal, who appeared to be reluctant to say anything. I assumed it was fraud, but later learned that the family is/was homeless, and the principal didn't want to say anything to protect their privacy.

The point is: sometimes getting on your high horse and charging over nothing can be a real jerk move.

PS. Occasionally we have a nanny pick up our kids - sometimes it's in our car (DC plates) and sometime in her car (VA plates). I'd love to see one of you get in a tizzy over that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New to the thread and Bethesda parent. One quick question please because I don't get it. Why on earth would anyone possibly lie to send their kid to DC public (or charter) schools? I paid 7 figures not to send my kid there. Literally every single person I have ever spoke to did/feels the same, what possible insentive would parents have?

Pre-K 3, Pre-K 4 and K all day, and with some Title 1 schools there's extended day (i.e. free aftercare). Schools are also close to work. I wouldn't say it's about the academics. I'd be surprised if MoCo kids were coming into the city.

Me, too. I think it's largely a PG problem.

Why? There are some MOCO schools that are not great. MOCO is not equal. And the classroom sizes are huge with 28 kindergarteners in one class and one teacher. I wonder why you excluded MOCO, but think the other county produces all the scofflaws.

Yup. There's a county culture of corruption.

LOL. Because someone in DC has the ignorant audacity to call something, someone, or somewhere else a culture of corruption.

[Anonymous]

I guess this is what you get living in a good area like Capitol Hill. Cut through traffic from PG that takes up parking and school slots and locks down parking on Sundays. Makes we wonder who's neighborhood it really is?