COSA denial - submitting an appeal but do we mention "gifted" designation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can’t you just keep your daughter at the same school and drive her? This is what happens in our school district when people move after they are registered and attend the school.

This is called residency cheating except under specific circumstances like eighth grade has already started.

Our schools do not seem to care if they continue in the school even though their address has changed. I'm not sure what the fraud is if they registered for a school with their address that was in district, then moved at some point, updated their new address, and continue at the school. No one has lied about anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can’t you just keep your daughter at the same school and drive her? This is what happens in our school district when people move after they are registered and attend the school.

This is called residency cheating except under specific circumstances like eighth grade has already started.

Our schools do not seem to care if they continue in the school even though their address has changed. I'm not sure what the fraud is if they registered for a school with their address that was in district, then moved at some point, updated their new address, and continue at the school. No one has lied about anything.

Montgomery County Public Schools does not allow that. So, in order to keep her child in the school without a COSA, they'd need to lie and say they haven't moved. That's fraud.

If your district does things differently, then it's not fraud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can’t you just keep your daughter at the same school and drive her? This is what happens in our school district when people move after they are registered and attend the school.

This is called residency cheating except under specific circumstances like eighth grade has already started.

Our schools do not seem to care if they continue in the school even though their address has changed. I'm not sure what the fraud is if they registered for a school with their address that was in district, then moved at some point, updated their new address, and continue at the school. No one has lied about anything.

Montgomery County Public Schools does not allow that. So, in order to keep her child in the school without a COSA, they'd need to lie and say they haven't moved. That's fraud.

If your district does things differently, then it's not fraud.

Ok and I'm sharing that the schools my kids have attended have not cared when their students have moved. Obviously I'm talking about MCPS as this is the MCPS forum. Again, I don't see what the fraud is. Perhaps a lack of enforcement of MCPS, but no fraud on the students/parents. They have not lied about anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can’t you just keep your daughter at the same school and drive her? This is what happens in our school district when people move after they are registered and attend the school.

This is called residency cheating except under specific circumstances like eighth grade has already started.

Our schools do not seem to care if they continue in the school even though their address has changed. I'm not sure what the fraud is if they registered for a school with their address that was in district, then moved at some point, updated their new address, and continue at the school. No one has lied about anything.

Montgomery County Public Schools does not allow that. So, in order to keep her child in the school without a COSA, they'd need to lie and say they haven't moved. That's fraud.

If your district does things differently, then it's not fraud.

Ok and I'm sharing that the schools my kids have attended have not cared when their students have moved. Obviously I'm talking about MCPS as this is the MCPS forum. Again, I don't see what the fraud is. Perhaps a lack of enforcement of MCPS, but no fraud on the students/parents. They have not lied about anything.

Actually, MCPS is clear about what constitutes a residence, and it is the home in which the child resides. Not notifying the school of a move out of district constitutes fraud because your child is no longer resident in-bounds.

But the real issue is that PP already filed for a COSA, so the home school and the county are both on alert that she is moving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can’t you just keep your daughter at the same school and drive her? This is what happens in our school district when people move after they are registered and attend the school.

This is called residency cheating except under specific circumstances like eighth grade has already started.

Our schools do not seem to care if they continue in the school even though their address has changed. I'm not sure what the fraud is if they registered for a school with their address that was in district, then moved at some point, updated their new address, and continue at the school. No one has lied about anything.

Montgomery County Public Schools does not allow that. So, in order to keep her child in the school without a COSA, they'd need to lie and say they haven't moved. That's fraud.

If your district does things differently, then it's not fraud.

Ok and I'm sharing that the schools my kids have attended have not cared when their students have moved. Obviously I'm talking about MCPS as this is the MCPS forum. Again, I don't see what the fraud is. Perhaps a lack of enforcement of MCPS, but no fraud on the students/parents. They have not lied about anything.

If OP changes her address and her child isn’t in the final grade at her school (I think HS is the exception because you can be a junior), she will receive acletting informing her of her zoned school and then they will enforce.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd bet money that the reason OP is spinning this hard has to do with the new school being somehow "worse" than the school where they have been renting.

MCPS is not entertained by folks who buy homes in economically diverse neighborhoods and then come up with elaborate reasons why their child cannot go to school with their neighbors' children.

But they are used to it. I see so many people who buy and count on CES, magnet or immersion and then freak out when their normal kids ends up in normal classes with normal (but poor) kids.

Another parent hoping that gifted will get them out of class with those kids.

[Anonymous]

There is nothing wrong about wanting a better peer group for ones kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong about wanting a better peer group for ones kids.

Exactly. Which is why we left the affluent private my kids used to go to. That peer group was unusually entitled, cliquish, and mean. They have a much better peer group in our middle class public.

Don’t assume richer = better peer group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong about wanting a better peer group for ones kids.

This Montgomery County is ridiculously bipolar.

They welcome people who break the law to come here because they want a ‘better life’ and more money.

But OP wants to simply have her kids attend a better school and it’s unacceptable that she would ‘break the law’.

Which is it? Are the laws important or not?

OP, do what works for you. So many people in MCPS disregard the rules for resident requirements. There is very little enforcement and it is very hard to prove anything. You are fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong about wanting a better peer group for ones kids.

Exactly. Which is why we left the affluent private my kids used to go to. That peer group was unusually entitled, cliquish, and mean. They have a much better peer group in our middle class public.

Don’t assume richer = better peer group.

Some of the W feeders have a horrible peer group in terms of spoiled, entitled kids with catty and/or racist parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong about wanting a better peer group for ones kids.

Exactly. Which is why we left the affluent private my kids used to go to. That peer group was unusually entitled, cliquish, and mean. They have a much better peer group in our middle class public.

Don’t assume richer = better peer group.

Some of the W feeders have a horrible peer group in terms of spoiled, entitled kids with catty and/or racist parents.

And some silver spring schools have rooming bands of ghetto kids and gang members. Stereotype much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong about wanting a better peer group for ones kids.

Exactly. Which is why we left the affluent private my kids used to go to. That peer group was unusually entitled, cliquish, and mean. They have a much better peer group in our middle class public.

Don’t assume richer = better peer group.

And don’t assume just because your kid was on the outside looking in that it was the clique that had the problem. People can sniff out people who don’t belong

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong about wanting a better peer group for ones kids.

I mean, if you genuinely believe that the "peer group" is better at one school over another, you are very welcome to buy/rent in that school attendance zone. However, it is pretty gross to buy/rent in an economically diverse attendance zone and then claim that your own child is too special to go to school with the other children whose families can afford that neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong about wanting a better peer group for ones kids.

I mean, if you genuinely believe that the "peer group" is better at one school over another, you are very welcome to buy/rent in that school attendance zone. However, it is pretty gross to buy/rent in an economically diverse attendance zone and then claim that your own child is too special to go to school with the other children whose families can afford that neighborhood.

Not gross, hypocritical. Most people typically want nothing to do with the unwashed masses down stream.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong about wanting a better peer group for ones kids.

I mean, if you genuinely believe that the "peer group" is better at one school over another, you are very welcome to buy/rent in that school attendance zone. However, it is pretty gross to buy/rent in an economically diverse attendance zone and then claim that your own child is too special to go to school with the other children whose families can afford that neighborhood.

Not gross, hypocritical. Most people typically want nothing to do with the unwashed masses down stream.

Well, in this case the speculation is that it is the "unwashed masses" next door. Which is kind of gross. It takes a special kind of white privilege to argue that your child cannot possibly be educated alongside the children of the people who can also afford your neighborhood.