Sounds like enrollment and residency is beeing investigated more aggressively

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh, DCUM's pocket delusion that DCPS attracts millions of Maryland students, because it is so great, just because one of You'll see a kid get out of a his Grandmother's (maryland-plated) car on monday after spending the weekend at her house.

based on the sightseeings, sounds like in some schools a good percentage of the kids spends many days of the week at grandma's house in MD and is driven to school by said grandma in the morning

A good percentage? You mean like .01%?

Even "good" DCPS schools are not nearly up to par with 90% of Maryland/Virginia schools. All I am trying to say is that a lot of people get up in arms every time they see a Maryland license plate anywhere near their precious school, and automatically assume it was someone trying to sneak their kid into DCPS, when there are many reasons that they might have a maryland plate.

Such as:
-PP's example of staying at Grandma/grandpa (or other relative's) house
-Nanny who lives in VA or Maryland
-Partial custody by one parent
-etc

I remember when my son was a freshman at a good public high school, one of his friends was a senior. Middle of senior year her parents split. Apparently dad moved to Silver Spring. She would spend pretty much every other night at her father's house, and he would sometimes drive her to school (He worked near by). Late that year, she was forced to leave the school because of the situation. They literally told her that she was no longer a resident of DC because she happened to sometimes sleep at her OOS dad's house. This was only a couple weeks before she was supposed to graduate from High School. In the end, she had to do another year, essentially move full-time to her Dad's house so she could go to school in Maryland, and graduate there after a semester. DCPS didn't believe her that her father had just moved to Maryland, and for a while was trying to force her to pay back-tuition for the four years she had attended. At least she managed to talk them down from that, but it all set her back immensely.

[Anonymous]

Really, this would be a first if this happened. Believe me there are more students who are out-of state and attending illegally.

[Anonymous]

There are enough stories of parents flat out admitting that they faked residency for me not to worry that we're up in arms over nothing.

But for the exceptions (folks who have MD VA plates etc but whose kids are legitimately registered in DCPS), if anyone ever does report you, you just show how/why you're legit and you're fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are enough stories of parents flat out admitting that they faked residency for me not to worry that we're up in arms over nothing.

But for the exceptions (folks who have MD VA plates etc but whose kids are legitimately registered in DCPS), if anyone ever does report you, you just show how/why you're legit and you're fine.

It didn't help the girl who I gave as an example. She and her mom showed plenty of proof that they lived in DC, but the school system claimed she was actually living at her father's place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are enough stories of parents flat out admitting that they faked residency for me not to worry that we're up in arms over nothing.

But for the exceptions (folks who have MD VA plates etc but whose kids are legitimately registered in DCPS), if anyone ever does report you, you just show how/why you're legit and you're fine.

Why the fuck is it, if this is some giant problem, that the only place I ever hear about this problem is on here? I have NEVER heard anyone complain about this in person, or on any other site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are enough stories of parents flat out admitting that they faked residency for me not to worry that we're up in arms over nothing.

But for the exceptions (folks who have MD VA plates etc but whose kids are legitimately registered in DCPS), if anyone ever does report you, you just show how/why you're legit and you're fine.

Why the fuck is it, if this is some giant problem, that the only place I ever hear about this problem is on here? I have NEVER heard anyone complain about this in person, or on any other site.

this is a known issue - it has been in the Washington Post for years. No one wants to deal with it.

Ask the teachers at Elington or any of the magnets if they know of a child who lives out of district and they will all say they do.
There is the story of a child at Eaton raising their hand asking "what ward is Landover in?" and no one takes any action.
Of course there was the issue of the child at Thompson who took cocaine to school - was held in DC JD and the parent's said the child could not be held in DC JD b/c they were not DC residents.
Just about every car dropping off at Potomac Lighthouse and Imagine Hope has MD plates

people have testified to DC Council - they do nothing.

Unless you report it - it will continue to be a joke

[Anonymous]

If NBC News took the same interest in this, that it did in FCC leaving a child at the park - it will get dealt with.

[Anonymous]

Police were called to my child's school yesterday, for suspicious people hanging around "watching" school activity. Upon questioning, it was revealed that they were reporters (just a little local paper) playing investigator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are enough stories of parents flat out admitting that they faked residency for me not to worry that we're up in arms over nothing.

But for the exceptions (folks who have MD VA plates etc but whose kids are legitimately registered in DCPS), if anyone ever does report you, you just show how/why you're legit and you're fine.

Why the fuck is it, if this is some giant problem, that the only place I ever hear about this problem is on here? I have NEVER heard anyone complain about this in person, or on any other site.

I don't know why you're so particularly upset about this, but have you done your own research? I have spoken to staff at DCPCS and DCPS about this (among other topics) for my job (I don't work for schools but do work for the government), and I GUARANTEE you it is both a significant problem and an under-reported problem. Why is it underreported? There are many reasons and dynamics and they can vary from school to school in terms of what is the most prominent problem.

But getting your panties in a twist without further investigation (because, if you had done any, you wouldn't be heated and doubting the scope of the problem) is just, well it's just giving you a bunch of twisted panties. Maybe it's not a problem at your kids' school, but do you attend any of the schools frequently mentioned here? Are you saying you see none of this, or do you just not have the exposure and haven't looked any further?

[Anonymous]

HD Woodson coach was fired, because player did not live in DC?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/highschools/hd-woodson-football-coach-greg-fuller-fired-by-dc-public-schools/2012/10/17/8dc59b34-189f-11e2-8bfd-12e2ee90dcf2_story.html

[Anonymous]

Here's more insight on this story. This involves a situation of "I am going to send you to live with your father." But I don't give up custodial rights to you either. So, I send you from PG County to DC to live with your Father and there's no official custodial rights exchanged. I enroll you into school as the parent because you live with me but I don't have the custodial rights granted. Is it a case where the coach should be fired for something that parent were lacking in securing. This goes to show you that this residency rule is such a joke, here it is that parent violated a rule and DCPS teacher gets fired from coaching. I can see where this is going now, they will catch another violator and fire the registrar or better yet the custodian. Lawd, help us in DC.

My scenario to this situation is like when a principal hires a teacher who has a bogus degree, would you fire the princpal or the human resource specialist from DCPS who previous validates the employee"s credentials?

Which leads to the Woodson situation, DCPS Athletic Department sanctioned that all of the residency paperwork was in order and validated the student. If that's the case, teachers beware if it is found out that your teaching a non-resident you might be terminated from teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are enough stories of parents flat out admitting that they faked residency for me not to worry that we're up in arms over nothing.

But for the exceptions (folks who have MD VA plates etc but whose kids are legitimately registered in DCPS), if anyone ever does report you, you just show how/why you're legit and you're fine.

Why the fuck is it, if this is some giant problem, that the only place I ever hear about this problem is on here? I have NEVER heard anyone complain about this in person, or on any other site.

You seem awfully angry about concerned citizens reporting scofflaws. Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's more insight on this story. This involves a situation of "I am going to send you to live with your father." But I don't give up custodial rights to you either. So, I send you from PG County to DC to live with your Father and there's no official custodial rights exchanged. I enroll you into school as the parent because you live with me but I don't have the custodial rights granted. Is it a case where the coach should be fired for something that parent were lacking in securing. This goes to show you that this residency rule is such a joke, here it is that parent violated a rule and DCPS teacher gets fired from coaching. I can see where this is going now, they will catch another violator and fire the registrar or better yet the custodian. Lawd, help us in DC.

My scenario to this situation is like when a principal hires a teacher who has a bogus degree, would you fire the princpal or the human resource specialist from DCPS who previous validates the employee"s credentials?

Which leads to the Woodson situation, DCPS Athletic Department sanctioned that all of the residency paperwork was in order and validated the student. If that's the case, teachers beware if it is found out that your teaching a non-resident you might be terminated from teaching.

Are you really from DC?

[Anonymous]

When we were at a DCPS with a good sports program, we were shocked at the number of the athletes that were really from MD. PG County kids love playing on DC teams, and they are very good too. I figured that was another reason why they looked the other way.

[Anonymous]

The sports program is still luring county athletes. The roster at the charter high schools are bursting at the seems with those type of athletes. Just check out the previous school affiliations, I doubt it very seriously that all of these high-school transfer are relocating too.