Going to School in a Different District

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Anonymous wrote:"I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?"

Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity.

Why shouldn’t everyone at the title 1 school get to go to a wealthier school, under that logic? Why are you special?

+1 Poors need to stay in schools for poors. FCPS spent a lot of effort drawing lines to avoid mixing.

OP isn’t poor. They would rather have multiple rental properties than send their kid to a school they deem good in a legal manner. There are lots of families at title 1 schools who would love to send their kids to a wealthy school but they can’t and don’t try to bend the rules like OP is.

If OP could afford to live in one of their houses in a better district and rent out their house in the worst district, they would.

If OP can afford to own multiple houses in NoVa they can afford to live full-time in the one in the better school district. This isn’t some low-income family. OP should sell the properties they can’t afford if need be.

+1. This is what we did and if I find out someone is participating in residency fraud in my overcrowded pyramid I will be the first to rat on them.

How do you expect to find out and rat one someone? Teens with their attention spans don't care about any of this. I tell my kid to tell anyone who asks that he transferred there because his relative works at the school doing IT. That's literally the end of their conversations.

Ridiculous excuse that nobody is going to accept.

Someone will report you. Don’t shoot the messenger.

[Anonymous]

I know two families that are doing/have done this. Wealthy families who wanted their kids to play at better HS sports teams in the hopes of recruitment. Both have rental properties.

They changed their address to one of the rental properties, as well as on bills, etc. I have no knowledge of whether they slept there at all, much less 51% of the time. They drove their kid to school and, to be honest, it was actually easier as the new HS (it was the same in both cases) is closer to where their real homes are. Boundaries make our base HS kind of a pain (for us too).

Everyone knew this was going on. No one ratted them out, as far as I know. And they covered all their bases with putting hte rental address on all the appropriate bills, paperwork. One graduated and the other is still in HS so we'll see.

It can be done. And while I generally don't like cheating I also feel like we are in an era of "every man for himself" so . . . others do it. And if it is not this, it's something else. I'd consider it if I had the option.

[Anonymous]

You could do it only if you stage the second property (the one you’re using the address of to pretend it’s your primary residence) to look like a primary residence inside & out. Needs to look like a family with teens lives there every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know two families that are doing/have done this. Wealthy families who wanted their kids to play at better HS sports teams in the hopes of recruitment. Both have rental properties.

They changed their address to one of the rental properties, as well as on bills, etc. I have no knowledge of whether they slept there at all, much less 51% of the time. They drove their kid to school and, to be honest, it was actually easier as the new HS (it was the same in both cases) is closer to where their real homes are. Boundaries make our base HS kind of a pain (for us too).

Everyone knew this was going on. No one ratted them out, as far as I know. And they covered all their bases with putting hte rental address on all the appropriate bills, paperwork. One graduated and the other is still in HS so we'll see.

It can be done. And while I generally don't like cheating I also feel like we are in an era of "every man for himself" so . . . others do it. And if it is not this, it's something else. I'd consider it if I had the option.

Great lesson to teach your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know two families that are doing/have done this. Wealthy families who wanted their kids to play at better HS sports teams in the hopes of recruitment. Both have rental properties.

They changed their address to one of the rental properties, as well as on bills, etc. I have no knowledge of whether they slept there at all, much less 51% of the time. They drove their kid to school and, to be honest, it was actually easier as the new HS (it was the same in both cases) is closer to where their real homes are. Boundaries make our base HS kind of a pain (for us too).

Everyone knew this was going on. No one ratted them out, as far as I know. And they covered all their bases with putting hte rental address on all the appropriate bills, paperwork. One graduated and the other is still in HS so we'll see.

It can be done. And while I generally don't like cheating I also feel like we are in an era of "every man for himself" so . . . others do it. And if it is not this, it's something else. I'd consider it if I had the option.

That's not how integrity works. FYI

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?"

Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity.

I agree with this perspective. Good schools are becoming increasingly hard to access. Whether it's due to outrageous real estate prices to "buy in" to the boundary or the fact that schools are closed to transfers, it's becoming a a scarce resource to attend a good school or to attend schools for specific classes. Some schools for example have niche classes not available anywhere else. FCPS is limiting access to programs and courses for poorer and lesser populated schools. So until that is addressed, lying about our address is the only way to access those classes.

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Anonymous wrote:"I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?"

Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity.

Why shouldn’t everyone at the title 1 school get to go to a wealthier school, under that logic? Why are you special?

+1 Poors need to stay in schools for poors. FCPS spent a lot of effort drawing lines to avoid mixing.

OP isn’t poor. They would rather have multiple rental properties than send their kid to a school they deem good in a legal manner. There are lots of families at title 1 schools who would love to send their kids to a wealthy school but they can’t and don’t try to bend the rules like OP is.

If OP could afford to live in one of their houses in a better district and rent out their house in the worst district, they would.

If OP can afford to own multiple houses in NoVa they can afford to live full-time in the one in the better school district. This isn’t some low-income family. OP should sell the properties they can’t afford if need be.

+1. This is what we did and if I find out someone is participating in residency fraud in my overcrowded pyramid I will be the first to rat on them.

How do you expect to find out and rat one someone? Teens with their attention spans don't care about any of this. I tell my kid to tell anyone who asks that he transferred there because his relative works at the school doing IT. That's literally the end of their conversations.

Bet you'll also tell your high schooler, when the time comes, that it's fine to lie, "fudge" and pad on his or her college applications, too. Maybe have that "relative in IT" write some recommendation letters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I'm a person of low character and I want to cheat and teach my child to be a cheater. What do you think, DCUM?"

Why is this cheating? In many cases pupil placement is now full due to FCPS's own mismanagement, and so we have lost our right to request a pupil placement. Why must I be penalized and lose that fair privilege to pupil place just because we're aging into the HS age at a later time than people who pupil placed before us? It's not fair that we have lost this opportunity.

I agree with this perspective. Good schools are becoming increasingly hard to access. Whether it's due to outrageous real estate prices to "buy in" to the boundary or the fact that schools are closed to transfers, it's becoming a a scarce resource to attend a good school or to attend schools for specific classes. Some schools for example have niche classes not available anywhere else. FCPS is limiting access to programs and courses for poorer and lesser populated schools. So until that is addressed, lying about our address is the only way to access those classes.

What classes cannot be accessed besides the ones at TJ? Other schools also have access to better facilities and more opportunities. There is an entire first generation college experience program and various STEM opportunities not available to regular students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a good location, own a few rental properties. The school in my district are at risk schools, and rated near the bottom for Fairfax County. My kids are miserable. We have issues with bullies.
My rental properties are in very good school districts. I was thinking of using one of these properties listing it as my home so I can get my kids into the better school district. I know it's not the right thing to do, and its dishonest, but I need my kids out of the other school. Does anyone have a suggestion, or have you done something like this?

There are legal ways to do this but they will also require you to pay tuition assuming they have capacity.

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Anonymous wrote:I know two families that are doing/have done this. Wealthy families who wanted their kids to play at better HS sports teams in the hopes of recruitment. Both have rental properties.

They changed their address to one of the rental properties, as well as on bills, etc. I have no knowledge of whether they slept there at all, much less 51% of the time. They drove their kid to school and, to be honest, it was actually easier as the new HS (it was the same in both cases) is closer to where their real homes are. Boundaries make our base HS kind of a pain (for us too).

Everyone knew this was going on. No one ratted them out, as far as I know. And they covered all their bases with putting hte rental address on all the appropriate bills, paperwork. One graduated and the other is still in HS so we'll see.

It can be done. And while I generally don't like cheating I also feel like we are in an era of "every man for himself" so . . . others do it. And if it is not this, it's something else. I'd consider it if I had the option.

That's not how integrity works. FYI

Everybody fudges on "integrity." That's a fact. But, at the end of the day, my priority is my kid and this is a low level breaking of rules that doesn't really hurt anyone. So, I can live with that (if we had to do it - we don't).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know two families that are doing/have done this. Wealthy families who wanted their kids to play at better HS sports teams in the hopes of recruitment. Both have rental properties.

They changed their address to one of the rental properties, as well as on bills, etc. I have no knowledge of whether they slept there at all, much less 51% of the time. They drove their kid to school and, to be honest, it was actually easier as the new HS (it was the same in both cases) is closer to where their real homes are. Boundaries make our base HS kind of a pain (for us too).

Everyone knew this was going on. No one ratted them out, as far as I know. And they covered all their bases with putting hte rental address on all the appropriate bills, paperwork. One graduated and the other is still in HS so we'll see.

It can be done. And while I generally don't like cheating I also feel like we are in an era of "every man for himself" so . . . others do it. And if it is not this, it's something else. I'd consider it if I had the option.

Great lesson to teach your kids.

I don't need a lecture and, frankly, don't care. MYOB.

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Anonymous wrote:I know two families that are doing/have done this. Wealthy families who wanted their kids to play at better HS sports teams in the hopes of recruitment. Both have rental properties.

They changed their address to one of the rental properties, as well as on bills, etc. I have no knowledge of whether they slept there at all, much less 51% of the time. They drove their kid to school and, to be honest, it was actually easier as the new HS (it was the same in both cases) is closer to where their real homes are. Boundaries make our base HS kind of a pain (for us too).

Everyone knew this was going on. No one ratted them out, as far as I know. And they covered all their bases with putting hte rental address on all the appropriate bills, paperwork. One graduated and the other is still in HS so we'll see.

It can be done. And while I generally don't like cheating I also feel like we are in an era of "every man for himself" so . . . others do it. And if it is not this, it's something else. I'd consider it if I had the option.

That's not how integrity works. FYI

Everybody fudges on "integrity." That's a fact. But, at the end of the day, my priority is my kid and this is a low level breaking of rules that doesn't really hurt anyone. So, I can live with that (if we had to do it - we don't).

Cheaters gonna cheat.

[Anonymous]

OP you know it’s wrong. Just don’t be shocked or surprised when your kid gets booted from their school. And yes there are kids who will report them if parents won’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know two families that are doing/have done this. Wealthy families who wanted their kids to play at better HS sports teams in the hopes of recruitment. Both have rental properties.

They changed their address to one of the rental properties, as well as on bills, etc. I have no knowledge of whether they slept there at all, much less 51% of the time. They drove their kid to school and, to be honest, it was actually easier as the new HS (it was the same in both cases) is closer to where their real homes are. Boundaries make our base HS kind of a pain (for us too).

Everyone knew this was going on. No one ratted them out, as far as I know. And they covered all their bases with putting hte rental address on all the appropriate bills, paperwork. One graduated and the other is still in HS so we'll see.

It can be done. And while I generally don't like cheating I also feel like we are in an era of "every man for himself" so . . . others do it. And if it is not this, it's something else. I'd consider it if I had the option.

Great lesson to teach your kids.

I don't need a lecture and, frankly, don't care. MYOB.

You and your kind are what’s wrong with the world.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know two families that are doing/have done this. Wealthy families who wanted their kids to play at better HS sports teams in the hopes of recruitment. Both have rental properties.

They changed their address to one of the rental properties, as well as on bills, etc. I have no knowledge of whether they slept there at all, much less 51% of the time. They drove their kid to school and, to be honest, it was actually easier as the new HS (it was the same in both cases) is closer to where their real homes are. Boundaries make our base HS kind of a pain (for us too).

Everyone knew this was going on. No one ratted them out, as far as I know. And they covered all their bases with putting hte rental address on all the appropriate bills, paperwork. One graduated and the other is still in HS so we'll see.

It can be done. And while I generally don't like cheating I also feel like we are in an era of "every man for himself" so . . . others do it. And if it is not this, it's something else. I'd consider it if I had the option.

Great lesson to teach your kids.

I don't need a lecture and, frankly, don't care. MYOB.

You and your kind are what’s wrong with the world.

I let my housekeeper use my address so that their kids can attend Langley HS instead of Annandale HS.  I don't see anything wrong with that.