Can you rent a basement of a house and go to that local school

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Anonymous wrote:If I rent a basement of a house in another school boundary - but still live in current home, Can I use the rental as my address to get DD into school?

Yes. You can absolutely do this. Many families do.

You'll get some posters on here who feign outrage, but in many cultures, you do what you need to do to get ahead. So, many families in MCPS use relatives' addresses, or friends' addresses to attend schools that are out of their boundary. It's NBD, and nobody every gets caught.

My coworker even lives in Frederick County, and her daughter attends MCPS because they are using an aunt's address. It's very prevalent, though I'm not an MCPS fan, so not sure what the appeal is!

Not feigning outrage here.

?? Not sure what you're saying.

PP is actually wrong. I have reported someone myself when my kids were younger. So, definitely not nobody.

And, what came of it?

Nothing.

My neighbor also reported someone. The person was definitely NOT living in our neighborhood. Kids lived at a completely different address. Did not have a COSA, but the parents used a grandparents' address. They said it was 'shared housing', even though the kids slept at their actual home every single night. Mom drove them to and from the bus stop daily.

That's a totally different situation. Using grandparents address is accepted practice because many families rely on grandparents for after care. Totally legal.

As for what came of my reporting, how do you know nothing came out? You really shouldn't BS things you don't know about. Dont' get worked up.

LOL, not actually legal. I mean, can I use my nanny's address? You don't know the rules, you're just an unethical human being who is being a selfish jerk.

It's not unethical to fill out a COSA and tell the truth that you parents provide care in the afternoon.

First Granny shouldn't be a child care provider. How cheap can you be?
Second, Granny can be at your house to pick child up from bus.

Not a reasonable COSA at all.

This is just obnoxious. Grannies have been providing childcare for centuries. Why shouldn’t Granny do child care? This comment is individualism to a crazy extreme.

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It depends on which school. The elementary schools in Churchill and Wootton are under enrolled and people are not looking out for this. The crowded elementary schools in BCC, Whitman or WJ that are close to the Silver Spring border do have people looking out for this.

In MS and HS, its less likely for other parents to notice.

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There are families living in basements
I heard of one high schooler, parents had to move out of state during senior year, so they rented a room for their kid and he lived on his own for a while

Perhaps the question is can a kid move out of the home while attending school

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Yep. I rent a basement apartment in the neighborhood of the best school in our district so my son can go there. I am a teacher and can’t afford anything in a nice neighborhood like this so I thought this would be a good plan. We’ve been here for years and have no plans to leave.

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Not in Maryland but I know of an incident in a local school district where the police went to the real home of a family early in the morning to see if they (mostly the kid) were there. They were using a different address for school purposes. Busted. Wherever the kid sleeps is where they live, for school purposes, but whoever lives there also has to have some custody of the kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Its pretty common. Some people do it and use the close in apartment as a resting/stopping point until the traffic dies down. Some people stay there overnight on non-telework days to avoid traffic. Some people hire after school sitters to watch the kids in the apartment and then pick them up on the way home.

MCPS can't say anything if you are spending time in both houses nor do they have interest in wading into this. There is too much complexity with people maintaining multiple houses or situations with divorce and shared custody.

That’s actually a really good idea! Go there every day after school and have dinner until traffic dies down, do showers and homework and then drive home.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you people not read the paper? There’s a huge scandal on DC right now about this and kids and getting kicked out and parents being made to pay back tuition. I realize that we’re probably talking about within Montgomery County here, but the evidence from DC is that yes, sometimes it really blows up when you cheat.

https://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4294984805


https://wamu.org/story/19/09/05/d-c-attorney-general-sues-16-parents-over-school-residency-fraud/

DC is way different from MoCo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep. I rent a basement apartment in the neighborhood of the best school in our district so my son can go there. I am a teacher and can’t afford anything in a nice neighborhood like this so I thought this would be a good plan. We’ve been here for years and have no plans to leave.

But it sounds like you actually live there.

I don’t think OP wants to actually live in the apartment.

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Anonymous wrote:If I rent a basement of a house in another school boundary - but still live in current home, Can I use the rental as my address to get DD into school?

Yes. You can absolutely do this. Many families do.

You'll get some posters on here who feign outrage, but in many cultures, you do what you need to do to get ahead. So, many families in MCPS use relatives' addresses, or friends' addresses to attend schools that are out of their boundary. It's NBD, and nobody every gets caught.

My coworker even lives in Frederick County, and her daughter attends MCPS because they are using an aunt's address. It's very prevalent, though I'm not an MCPS fan, so not sure what the appeal is!

Not feigning outrage here.

?? Not sure what you're saying.

PP is actually wrong. I have reported someone myself when my kids were younger. So, definitely not nobody.

And, what came of it?

Nothing.

My neighbor also reported someone. The person was definitely NOT living in our neighborhood. Kids lived at a completely different address. Did not have a COSA, but the parents used a grandparents' address. They said it was 'shared housing', even though the kids slept at their actual home every single night. Mom drove them to and from the bus stop daily.

That's a totally different situation. Using grandparents address is accepted practice because many families rely on grandparents for after care. Totally legal.

As for what came of my reporting, how do you know nothing came out? You really shouldn't BS things you don't know about. Dont' get worked up.

LOL, not actually legal. I mean, can I use my nanny's address? You don't know the rules, you're just an unethical human being who is being a selfish jerk.

It's not unethical to fill out a COSA and tell the truth that you parents provide care in the afternoon.

First Granny shouldn't be a child care provider. How cheap can you be?
Second, Granny can be at your house to pick child up from bus.

Not a reasonable COSA at all.

This is just obnoxious. Grannies have been providing childcare for centuries. Why shouldn’t Granny do child care? This comment is individualism to a crazy extreme.

See, it’s a cultural issue. Some cultures view things differently.

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Anonymous wrote:If I rent a basement of a house in another school boundary - but still live in current home, Can I use the rental as my address to get DD into school?

Yes. You can absolutely do this. Many families do.

You'll get some posters on here who feign outrage, but in many cultures, you do what you need to do to get ahead. So, many families in MCPS use relatives' addresses, or friends' addresses to attend schools that are out of their boundary. It's NBD, and nobody every gets caught.

My coworker even lives in Frederick County, and her daughter attends MCPS because they are using an aunt's address. It's very prevalent, though I'm not an MCPS fan, so not sure what the appeal is!

Not feigning outrage here.

?? Not sure what you're saying.

PP is actually wrong. I have reported someone myself when my kids were younger. So, definitely not nobody.

And, what came of it?

Nothing.

My neighbor also reported someone. The person was definitely NOT living in our neighborhood. Kids lived at a completely different address. Did not have a COSA, but the parents used a grandparents' address. They said it was 'shared housing', even though the kids slept at their actual home every single night. Mom drove them to and from the bus stop daily.

That's a totally different situation. Using grandparents address is accepted practice because many families rely on grandparents for after care. Totally legal.

As for what came of my reporting, how do you know nothing came out? You really shouldn't BS things you don't know about. Dont' get worked up.

LOL, not actually legal. I mean, can I use my nanny's address? You don't know the rules, you're just an unethical human being who is being a selfish jerk.

It's not unethical to fill out a COSA and tell the truth that you parents provide care in the afternoon.

First Granny shouldn't be a child care provider. How cheap can you be?
Second, Granny can be at your house to pick child up from bus.

Not a reasonable COSA at all.

This is just obnoxious. Grannies have been providing childcare for centuries. Why shouldn’t Granny do child care? This comment is individualism to a crazy extreme.

See, it’s a cultural issue. Some cultures view things differently.

So you are from obnoxious culture? Which one is that exactly?

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See, it’s a cultural issue. Some cultures view things differently.

In which culture(s) is it unacceptable for grandmothers to provide child care? I'm asking sincerely.

[Anonymous]

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See, it’s a cultural issue. Some cultures view things differently.

In which culture(s) is it unacceptable for grandmothers to provide child care? I'm asking sincerely.

DCUM culture.

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See, it’s a cultural issue. Some cultures view things differently.

In which culture(s) is it unacceptable for grandmothers to provide child care? I'm asking sincerely.

The white and self-claimed residence police.
If anyone rents a room, an apartment, a basement apartment in a good school distract with a lease and live there, they have the right to send their child to local school.

[Anonymous]

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See, it’s a cultural issue. Some cultures view things differently.

In which culture(s) is it unacceptable for grandmothers to provide child care? I'm asking sincerely.

The white and self-claimed residence police.
If anyone rents a room, an apartment, a basement apartment in a good school distract with a lease and live there, they have the right to send their child to local school.

Agreed. And, in reality, OP doesn't even have to actually rent an apartment. Just ask if you can use their address, and offer up a nice gift basket.

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See, it’s a cultural issue. Some cultures view things differently.

In which culture(s) is it unacceptable for grandmothers to provide child care? I'm asking sincerely.

The white and self-claimed residence police.
If anyone rents a room, an apartment, a basement apartment in a good school distract with a lease and live there, they have the right to send their child to local school.

That's the key part.