Using relative's address to get child into different school district in MCPS

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Anonymous wrote:I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!!

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children.

Yes, exactly, schools are "low quality" because school districts don't do enough, not because we tie school funding to property taxes and penalize schools for not being able to pass standardized tests that are really just a measure of SES as a means of keeping them hypersegregated and underfunded.

In Moco the funding is the same. The issue is concentrated poverty. Thee best way to alleviate concentrated poverty would be busing but rich parents basically bring out the pitchfoiand torches whenever that is suggested.

Absolutely. We didn't pay a premium to live in our current zip code only to have our kids bussed across town. What's the point of living in that zip code if not the local schools? We'd just move to DC or VA if this changed or frankly, just go private.

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Anonymous wrote:I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!!

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children.

Yes, exactly, schools are "low quality" because school districts don't do enough, not because we tie school funding to property taxes and penalize schools for not being able to pass standardized tests that are really just a measure of SES as a means of keeping them hypersegregated and underfunded.

In Moco the funding is the same. The issue is concentrated poverty. Thee best way to alleviate concentrated poverty would be busing but rich parents basically bring out the pitchfoiand torches whenever that is suggested.

Absolutely. We didn't pay a premium to live in our current zip code only to have our kids bussed across town. What's the point of living in that zip code if not the local schools? We'd just move to DC or VA if this changed or frankly, just go private.

Bingo! People buy houses based on schools, which in turn drive home values and it happens everywhere. A tried and true reality of real estate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the repercussions if MCPS finds out you've used a relative's address to get your child enrolled in a different MCPS school district? Does anyone have experience with this? And if so, what is the process that MCPS uses to discover and crack down on such situations?

It's illegal. Eventually, your child will have to repeat your lies about where they live. If you do this, even if you don't get caught you teach your child by example that it's okay to lie and cheat to get something you want. Is that a lesson you want to teach your child?

[Anonymous]

People who do this, or who consider doing this, extreme measure, at the risk of getting caught, have their reasons. Some schools are truly abysmal (dangerous; indifferent or biased teachers or admin, the list goes on). Unfortunately there’s no charter school option right now.

I personally wouldn’t do this but it’s easy for me to say given my comfortable situation. Wouldn’t judge others so harshly. They’re trying to give their kids a decent chance given their probably more limited means. Illegal doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Many people pay property taxes yet don’t have school age kids or choose not to attend the public school, etc. Seems to even itself out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!!

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children.

Yes, exactly, schools are "low quality" because school districts don't do enough, not because we tie school funding to property taxes and penalize schools for not being able to pass standardized tests that are really just a measure of SES as a means of keeping them hypersegregated and underfunded.

In Moco the funding is the same. The issue is concentrated poverty. Thee best way to alleviate concentrated poverty would be busing but rich parents basically bring out the pitchfoiand torches whenever that is suggested.

1. Actually, some MCPS schools do get more funding per pupil.

2. It's not just "rich" parents. I am nowhere near rich and don't want my kids on a bus for more time than is necessary. It's already a pain to get them up and out the door on time. I really don't need to add a 30 min + commute to that just so my kids can mingle with a bunch of privileged kids and come home asking why we aren't going to Europe for spring break. I like that our school is located in our physical community.

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Anonymous wrote:People who do this, or who consider doing this, extreme measure, at the risk of getting caught, have their reasons. Some schools are truly abysmal (dangerous; indifferent or biased teachers or admin, the list goes on). Unfortunately there’s no charter school option right now.

I personally wouldn’t do this but it’s easy for me to say given my comfortable situation. Wouldn’t judge others so harshly. They’re trying to give their kids a decent chance given their probably more limited means. Illegal doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Many people pay property taxes yet don’t have school age kids or choose not to attend the public school, etc. Seems to even itself out.

Wow -- "Illegal doesn't mean it's wrong"? This sounds like the same reasoning teens use to justify vaping THC at school or drinking underage or ignoring driving with passenger restrictions.

The parents I know who do this aren't of limited means--it's entitled middle class and upper middle-class parents. Parents of limited means rely upon school buses to get their kids to school. They aren't able to pay for the gas or take off work to drive their kids to and from school every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!!

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children.

I rented an apartment in the school district I wanted. So I missed out on the property ladder. Instead of my friend who bought a house that I also could have afforded and lied about the address. Maybe that makes me a sucker. But I sleep very well at night.

I’m sure your friend sleeps well at night too.

[Anonymous]

There are students at my child’s school who live in other counties and this is widely known and no one cares. It’s not that big of a deal to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!!

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children.

Yes, exactly, schools are "low quality" because school districts don't do enough, not because we tie school funding to property taxes and penalize schools for not being able to pass standardized tests that are really just a measure of SES as a means of keeping them hypersegregated and underfunded.

In Moco the funding is the same. The issue is concentrated poverty. Thee best way to alleviate concentrated poverty would be busing but rich parents basically bring out the pitchfoiand torches whenever that is suggested.

Absolutely. We didn't pay a premium to live in our current zip code only to have our kids bussed across town. What's the point of living in that zip code if not the local schools? We'd just move to DC or VA if this changed or frankly, just go private.

Bingo! People buy houses based on schools, which in turn drive home values and it happens everywhere. A tried and true reality of real estate.

A lot of people seem to have been ripped off since they were clearly uninformed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are students at my child’s school who live in other counties and this is widely known and no one cares. It’s not that big of a deal to me.

I'd rat them out. They're getting a free ride and not paying their fair share.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!!

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children.

Yes, exactly, schools are "low quality" because school districts don't do enough, not because we tie school funding to property taxes and penalize schools for not being able to pass standardized tests that are really just a measure of SES as a means of keeping them hypersegregated and underfunded.

In Moco the funding is the same. The issue is concentrated poverty. Thee best way to alleviate concentrated poverty would be busing but rich parents basically bring out the pitchfoiand torches whenever that is suggested.

The only people suggesting "busing" (if we define this as busing children to different areas of the County - Bethesda to Silver Spring for example - involuntarily) are trolls on DCUM like you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!!

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children.

Yes, exactly, schools are "low quality" because school districts don't do enough, not because we tie school funding to property taxes and penalize schools for not being able to pass standardized tests that are really just a measure of SES as a means of keeping them hypersegregated and underfunded.

In Moco the funding is the same. The issue is concentrated poverty. Thee best way to alleviate concentrated poverty would be busing but rich parents basically bring out the pitchfoiand torches whenever that is suggested.

Absolutely. We didn't pay a premium to live in our current zip code only to have our kids bussed across town. What's the point of living in that zip code if not the local schools? We'd just move to DC or VA if this changed or frankly, just go private.

Bingo! People buy houses based on schools, which in turn drive home values and it happens everywhere. A tried and true reality of real estate.

But we don't HAVE to fund school districts differently based on their tax bases. We choose to do that and it keeps innocent children in a cycle of poverty.

I got rezoned out of a "desirable" school and into one that was highly segregated. School boundaries change based on population shifts. I didn't have any basis for crying about how I was entitled to a certain school when every school in a district should be good enough for all children. And guess what . . . the school that all the UMC mainly white people said wasn't good turned out to be pretty much exactly the same as the school we left, minus the cliquey PTA working itself into a constant frenzy. Even my kid says, "People say my new school isn't as good as my old school, but I like my new school better!"

We need to ask ourselves why we think a school is better and what repercussions those hoarding behaviors have on our kids and other kids. Because that's what people are doing here . . . they are treating a desirable school like some limited resource and justifying lying and, in some cases, outright theft.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who do this, or who consider doing this, extreme measure, at the risk of getting caught, have their reasons. Some schools are truly abysmal (dangerous; indifferent or biased teachers or admin, the list goes on). Unfortunately there’s no charter school option right now.

I personally wouldn’t do this but it’s easy for me to say given my comfortable situation. Wouldn’t judge others so harshly. They’re trying to give their kids a decent chance given their probably more limited means. Illegal doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Many people pay property taxes yet don’t have school age kids or choose not to attend the public school, etc. Seems to even itself out.

Wow -- "Illegal doesn't mean it's wrong"? This sounds like the same reasoning teens use to justify vaping THC at school or drinking underage or ignoring driving with passenger restrictions.

The parents I know who do this aren't of limited means--it's entitled middle class and upper middle-class parents. Parents of limited means rely upon school buses to get their kids to school. They aren't able to pay for the gas or take off work to drive their kids to and from school every day.

This is Montgomery County! Lots of things are ‘illegal’ but not wrong in this county. It has become acceptable to ignore the laws as long as they benefit you and your family. (Like illegal/undocumented immigration or illegal/unlicensed housing rentals, etc)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the repercussions if MCPS finds out you've used a relative's address to get your child enrolled in a different MCPS school district? Does anyone have experience with this? And if so, what is the process that MCPS uses to discover and crack down on such situations?

You will be in trouble for doing this type of thing.

[Anonymous]

I think this would only work for schools that have a very large boundary window. It would never work for ours, because it only feeds from like 3 neighborhoods and pretty much everyone knows each other and knows where everyone lives.