Residency Fraud

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"Residency fraud" is a code-word for I don't want black kids at my school. No one cared about this issue until white started living outside NW. Now that white people have pushed out the black people to PG, they create more excuses to gentrify the city by getting people riled up about "residency fraud". The plan is at work.

Not always. Based on what people are willing to say in public (surely some won't even admit it), I'd venture that there are dozens of upper income families of all races renting cheapest efficiency apartments in the Deal zone--and not living there--so as to have the address for those 3 middle school years. That's also a form of residency fraud, and a whole lot of wealthy people engage in it.

I have heard of families doing this. I've been in DC a while so I'm finding it funny that parents are cheating for Deal, but times change. Honestly, if you are going to go to that trouble why don't go to private or just move?

Well, maybe it's 2 birds with 1 stone. Buy a condo, rent or sublet it out, but use the address.

A cheap rental is still what $1500, that's $18k a year. I find it hard to believe a lot of people are actually doing that.

[Anonymous]

Just wanted to add re bumper stickers. Many of our teachers sport school magnets on their cars even if they live in VA or MD. My mom (VA plates) has my son's school magnet on car.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our school has a somewhat notorious OOB family that uses a rental property address to poach a coveted PK spot. DCPS could not care less.

Why should it? It has more important things to worry about.

Try posting this the day after the lottery when families are shut out because some thief from Maryland has stolen their seat.

Sure, OK. I absolutely will. Get over it.

What is YOUR problem? I am a lottery winner (#1 pick!) and I still sympathize with those who were shut out. Have you been outside any of the Hill schools lately? I nearly got t-boned by a giant SUV with Maryland plates dropping off a kid who said "byeeee mom and dad". That's theft. I guess you're such a criminal that it doesn't bother you when someone steals around $10,000 from the government. Go to hell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Residency fraud" is a code-word for I don't want black kids at my school. No one cared about this issue until white started living outside NW. Now that white people have pushed out the black people to PG, they create more excuses to gentrify the city by getting people riled up about "residency fraud". The plan is at work.

Not always. Based on what people are willing to say in public (surely some won't even admit it), I'd venture that there are dozens of upper income families of all races renting cheapest efficiency apartments in the Deal zone--and not living there--so as to have the address for those 3 middle school years. That's also a form of residency fraud, and a whole lot of wealthy people engage in it.

I have heard of families doing this. I've been in DC a while so I'm finding it funny that parents are cheating for Deal, but times change. Honestly, if you are going to go to that trouble why don't go to private or just move?

Well, maybe it's 2 birds with 1 stone. Buy a condo, rent or sublet it out, but use the address.

A cheap rental is still what $1500, that's $18k a year. I find it hard to believe a lot of people are actually doing that.

There are apartments that people 'pass down' as they are no longer needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Well, maybe it's 2 birds with 1 stone. Buy a condo, rent or sublet it out, but use the address.

A cheap rental is still what $1500, that's $18k a year. I find it hard to believe a lot of people are actually doing that.

Surprising more people don't do this:

1. claim an address of an apartment building to get preference/residency
2. if it works and you "win" the lottery, then sign a lease, turn on the utilities, whatever
3. verify residence with that form
4. don't bother moving, turn off the utilities...
5. never get caught

[Anonymous]

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Some people clearly feel they have nothing to worry about. Like, the sort of people who will slap a Murch bumpersticker 4 inches away from their Maryland license plate and drive away from a grossly over-enrolled school.

right.... because it isn't possible that this is the nanny, the babysitter, or one half of a divorced couple. MYOB and stop being so greedy.

Explain how I'm greedy? Specifically, how am I, as a bystander whose kids don't attend Murch but who does live nearby, greedy?

[Anonymous]

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I dunno. I followed a tan Chevy Suburban with Maryland tags and a Murch bumper sticker all the way down 36th St. NW today, after school. After pickup from Murch, that is.

Some people clearly feel they have nothing to worry about. Like, the sort of people who will slap a Murch bumpersticker 4 inches away from their Maryland license plate and drive away from a grossly over-enrolled school.

I wouldn't be so proud of stalking someone into Maryland, were I you. I mean it is funny that you did that,

You're sort of a dimwit. I was driving behind the vehicle, going where I needed to go anyway. We were going 12 miles per hour. I could see, with my two eyes, that

1. The car -- let me repeat, a late-model, tan Chevy Suburban -- had Maryland license plates.
2. The car had just pulled away from Murch at 3:30, when school gets out.
3. The car had a Murch mustangs blue and yellow bumper sticker.
4. The car had elementary aged children in the car.

I didn't go to Maryland, and I didn't follow the car. to anyplace I wasn't headed already It happened to be in front of me on 36th St. NW. It happened to force me to stop as it pulled away from the curb on 36th St NW. This is how I happened to see 1 - 4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Residency fraud" is a code-word for I don't want black kids at my school. No one cared about this issue until white started living outside NW. Now that white people have pushed out the black people to PG, they create more excuses to gentrify the city by getting people riled up about "residency fraud". The plan is at work.

Not always. Based on what people are willing to say in public (surely some won't even admit it), I'd venture that there are dozens of upper income families of all races renting cheapest efficiency apartments in the Deal zone--and not living there--so as to have the address for those 3 middle school years. That's also a form of residency fraud, and a whole lot of wealthy people engage in it.

Wealthy people don't actually use public school and contort themselves to do so. Actual wealthy people.

[Anonymous]

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I dunno. I followed a tan Chevy Suburban with Maryland tags and a Murch bumper sticker all the way down 36th St. NW today, after school. After pickup from Murch, that is.

Some people clearly feel they have nothing to worry about. Like, the sort of people who will slap a Murch bumpersticker 4 inches away from their Maryland license plate and drive away from a grossly over-enrolled school.

I wouldn't be so proud of stalking someone into Maryland, were I you. I mean it is funny that you did that,

You're sort of a dimwit. I was driving behind the vehicle, going where I needed to go anyway. We were going 12 miles per hour. I could see, with my two eyes, that

1. The car -- let me repeat, a late-model, tan Chevy Suburban -- had Maryland license plates.
2. The car had just pulled away from Murch at 3:30, when school gets out.
3. The car had a Murch mustangs blue and yellow bumper sticker.
4. The car had elementary aged children in the car.

I didn't go to Maryland, and I didn't follow the car. to anyplace I wasn't headed already It happened to be in front of me on 36th St. NW. It happened to force me to stop as it pulled away from the curb on 36th St NW. This is how I happened to see 1 - 4.

So you know they live in MD or they haven't registered their car in DC? Which one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Well, maybe it's 2 birds with 1 stone. Buy a condo, rent or sublet it out, but use the address.

A cheap rental is still what $1500, that's $18k a year. I find it hard to believe a lot of people are actually doing that.

Surprising more people don't do this:

1. claim an address of an apartment building to get preference/residency
2. if it works and you "win" the lottery, then sign a lease, turn on the utilities, whatever
3. verify residence with that form
4. don't bother moving, turn off the utilities...
5. never get caught

You don't even need to do this. All that's needed is a pay stub. Change your address at work, next pay stub will show new address. Schools should be checking YTD DC tax withholdings, but I don't they do and they can't do anything for a person in NE DC claiming NW address. Schools should be pulling DC wages reported by DOES.

[Anonymous]

You're sort of a dimwit. I was driving behind the vehicle, going where I needed to go anyway. We were going 12 miles per hour. I could see, with my two eyes, that

1. The car -- let me repeat, a late-model, tan Chevy Suburban -- had Maryland license plates.
2. The car had just pulled away from Murch at 3:30, when school gets out.
3. The car had a Murch mustangs blue and yellow bumper sticker.
4. The car had elementary aged children in the car.

I didn't go to Maryland, and I didn't follow the car. to anyplace I wasn't headed already It happened to be in front of me on 36th St. NW. It happened to force me to stop as it pulled away from the curb on 36th St NW. This is how I happened to see 1 - 4.




So you know they live in MD or they haven't registered their car in DC? Which one?

Unsure. It was a brand-new model of this car, of this I'm sure. They haven't had possession of this car with the Maryland plates for years and simply didn't get around to re-registering it in the District.

[Anonymous]

You. Are. Troubled. Really, you are. Thank you for reaffirming our decision not to move to that side of the park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You. Are. Troubled. Really, you are. Thank you for reaffirming our decision not to move to that side of the park.

Different poster here. As far as I see it the poster defending residency fraud is the troubled one. And probably a criminal too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Well, maybe it's 2 birds with 1 stone. Buy a condo, rent or sublet it out, but use the address.

A cheap rental is still what $1500, that's $18k a year. I find it hard to believe a lot of people are actually doing that.

Surprising more people don't do this:

1. claim an address of an apartment building to get preference/residency
2. if it works and you "win" the lottery, then sign a lease, turn on the utilities, whatever
3. verify residence with that form
4. don't bother moving, turn off the utilities...
5. never get caught

You don't even need to do this. All that's needed is a pay stub. Change your address at work, next pay stub will show new address. Schools should be checking YTD DC tax withholdings, but I don't they do and they can't do anything for a person in NE DC claiming NW address. Schools should be pulling DC wages reported by DOES.

What if a parent works in MD or VA? I have a DC plates, live in DC, but commute to VA for work after drop off.

Also, I don't think just a paystub is enough. When I re-enrolled I had to show that my car was registered in DC, my drivers license had to be DC, and my address on my paystub had to match my DC drivers license (I think I used a utility bill instead actually, but it had to match my DL and car registration). It definitely wasn't just one form of proof.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Well, maybe it's 2 birds with 1 stone. Buy a condo, rent or sublet it out, but use the address.

A cheap rental is still what $1500, that's $18k a year. I find it hard to believe a lot of people are actually doing that.

Surprising more people don't do this:

1. claim an address of an apartment building to get preference/residency
2. if it works and you "win" the lottery, then sign a lease, turn on the utilities, whatever
3. verify residence with that form
4. don't bother moving, turn off the utilities...
5. never get caught

You don't even need to do this. All that's needed is a pay stub. Change your address at work, next pay stub will show new address. Schools should be checking YTD DC tax withholdings, but I don't they do and they can't do anything for a person in NE DC claiming NW address. Schools should be pulling DC wages reported by DOES.

What if a parent works in MD or VA? I have a DC plates, live in DC, but commute to VA for work after drop off.

Also, I don't think just a paystub is enough. When I re-enrolled I had to show that my car was registered in DC, my drivers license had to be DC, and my address on my paystub had to match my DC drivers license (I think I used a utility bill instead actually, but it had to match my DL and car registration). It definitely wasn't just one form of proof.

My job is in VA too but I pay DC taxes, when they pull DC paid taxes it will confirm YTD taxes. Also, pay stub is in column A - only one document needed. Car registration is in column B - two items needed.