residency docs for school registration

[Anonymous]

hi. i am anticipating maybe running into some problems with the residency docs for school and was wondering if anyone else had been through it...

1. will they accept a lease that has passed into the month-to-month phase? i am concerned that they will view it as "expired."

2. will they accept copies of bills printed out from the internet? i don't get paper copies.

3. will they accept paystubs printed out from employer's web site? i don't get paper copies.

4. this is a tricky one: i am divorced and we have joint custody. ds went into lottery under DH's address because we like the school he was zoned for better. will they have a problem if i try to fill out all the paperwork with my addresss and use my residency docs etc? ex-dh is in and out of town on business and has an all around impossible work schedule, so it is easier for me to do it.

this is fun!

[Anonymous]

Call DCPS and ask. We used a Pepco bill addressed to us and then a print-out of the online payment (the account numbers should match up from the hard-copy bill to the online payment. I guess you could always call Pepco and ask them to send you a hard-copy statement.

[Anonymous]

also, i have used my license and our car registration- one is in my name and one is in my husband's name (we have different last names). maybe you could do it with his car registration and his lease?

[Anonymous]

It sounds as if you were accepted into the pre-K lottery as an in-boundary student based on your ex-husband's current address. If so, you are going to have to document his in-boundary residency, the fact that you live out of boundary but in DC does not establish in boundary residency. If your child got into an out of boundary lottery, I would expect that you just have to demonstrate DC residence and that residency for either of you would do. I would call the school and see if you can bring in his documents. That is, you can bring in your child's birth certificate and a copy of his paystub that shows his current address, I do not recall if they require ID for the parent as well.