DH and I are thinking about leasing an apartment just to get in a good schol district
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Anonymous
| We wouldn't live there. I know you are technically not supposed to do this, but have people gotten caught? We can't afford to buy in our targeted district. |
Anonymous
Lol nice troll for a slow monday afternoon. Come to our school, if you donate $1000 to PTO each year i'll keep your little secret safe |
Anonymous
| You gonna lease in VA or MD |
Anonymous
We should be flattered that Md and Va folk are so obsessed with DC threads. |
Anonymous
Yes some have been caught. Others haven't. But you will be teaching your kid to lie. People will ask where you live so start practicing now. |
Anonymous
You're a cheap date. You should make them pay more 
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Anonymous
+1 Do you realize how far you're going to have to involve your kid in this scam? Playdates, birthdays, 1st grade 'essays' about "my neighborhood" ?? Are you really prepared to constantly remind your kid that they have to pretend they live in boundary?? |
Anonymous
| You'll likely be safe, but it sounds like a pain and it sounds very expensive. A year's rent would be private school tuition at the cheaper privates and maybe a year's tuition at the expensive ones if you qualified for aid. But if you could afford 24000 a year for an extra apartment, it sounds like you could afford a house in a good school district. troll |
Anonymous
| It's happened at Langley High, but usually the kids live there during the week and return to their family on the weekend. Usually Asian American stars. |
Anonymous
| I know someone who does this. The school likes to make home visits. It forces them to live an elaborate lie. |
Anonymous
If you pay your DC taxes, acquire all the docs to get through a DCPS residency investigation and could survive a home visit (with pictures taken of a kid's bedroom) it's nobody's business if you do this. You don't need to teach your kids to lie; you could simply teach them not to talk about the apartment. Sounds like a huge and expensive hassle though. |
Anonymous
Of course it is everyone's business. If we were all allowed to go to whatever DC school we wanted then it would be no problem But I can't send my kids to Murch because I don't live in boundary snd it's overcrowded. |
Anonymous
A lie of omission is still a lie. |
Anonymous
By "technically" do you mean "legally"? Because when you register your kid for a DCPS school you need to state your address (your actual RESIDENCE) and sign. There is legal language stating the fines/penalities for falsely signing. You should look into how technical you need to be. Think it through. From the residency verification form: Penalty for False Information: Any person, including any District of Columbia public school or public charter school official, who knowingly supplies false information to a public official in connection with student residency verification shall be subject to charges of tuition retroactively, and payment of a fine of not more than $2,000 or imprisonment for not more than 90 days, but not both fine and imprisonment, pursuant to the District of Columbia Nonresident Tuition Act, approved September 8, 1960 and amended by the District of Columbia Public Schools and Public Charter School Student Residency Fraud Prevention Amendment Act of 2012 (D.C. Co http://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/COS_DCResidenVerifiForm_2015%20%281%29.pdf |
Anonymous
| Guys an apartment runs 2,000 a month. With that kind of money, the OP has better options than rent an apartment. This is a troll post. If you had 2,000 a month, 24,000 a year, extra to spend to get your kid a good education, is there any way in hell this is the choice you'd make? No, you'd use that money to buy a house in bounds with it or you'd use it to go private. This is why you could actually do this and never worry about getting caught - because no one would do this so the documents provided are more than sufficient. |