Field trip chaperones can find residency cheaters

[Anonymous]

I attended a field trip today as a chaperone and during the bus ride, one child asked if I knew where he lived. Just to be light-hearted, I pointed to a random house and said, "Right there?" The child laughed and said no and named his street in DC.

It dawned on me that even young kids, including my own, know what street and city they live in. I can just make conversation with the kids about where they live. If I find one who reports to live in Maryland, take their name and report to authorities. Boom.

Just imagine if we had groups of parents doing this for every field trip in every school across the city...

[Anonymous]

You must think that lots of people covet DC schools. However that is not my experience at all.

[Anonymous]

I really abhor residency cheating, but that is just plain mean spirited.

[Anonymous]

Not a fan of residency cheating, but what's up with the obsession in finding the cheaters? Also, are you sure your cheater is really that? There are circumstances in which people live out of bound which are valid. Some places you can pay out of bounds tuition for a given circumstance. My parents did this when our house was not completed on time, and they had to pay until we moved into that house. I explored that option when I was looking for 1/2 day kindergarten -- eg, LCPS would allow this if a school had availability, and we paid out of county tuition.

[Anonymous]

OH yes, kids will spill anything. On your next chaperone adventure why not milk little Larla about how much screen time she has, what daddy does for work and how much wine mommy drinks?

[Anonymous]

Whoa we've got a real Sherlock Holmes on our hands!

[Anonymous]

Gross

[Anonymous]

Why stop there? Hire a private detective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a fan of residency cheating, but what's up with the obsession in finding the cheaters? Also, are you sure your cheater is really that? There are circumstances in which people live out of bound which are valid. Some places you can pay out of bounds tuition for a given circumstance. My parents did this when our house was not completed on time, and they had to pay until we moved into that house. I explored that option when I was looking for 1/2 day kindergarten -- eg, LCPS would allow this if a school had availability, and we paid out of county tuition.

Call the central office and ask how many tuition paying students there are at your school. Zero is the most likely number.

[Anonymous]

The reality is that most teachers, at least at the elementary school level, know who the residency fraudsters are. They should turn such families in.

[Anonymous]

There's already another neverending, dead horse beaten thread on this topic. If you must troll please keep it to that thread.

Jeff,

Any chance of closing this one since the other one is (inexplicably) still going?

[Anonymous]

Yeah. Not a fan of cheaters either. But OP strikes me as an ill person.

[Anonymous]

Yes, also if you are a field trip chaperone you can look for other chaperones acting creepy by trying to find out where children live and report them, too.

[Anonymous]

Dafuq?

[Anonymous]

Op-- where do your kids go to school? Why are you obsessed with residency cheating?