First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Register her car where she actually lived?

Pull her kids out of school. For two months to send them to a school in Maryland, when the next year they'd be attending school in another state? Sure. Would you do that to YOUR kids? Does the welfare of her kids matter to you at all? Are you entirely incapable of understanding any issue that isn't within your narrow little dichotomy? Her mother did pay DC taxes. 2 months of the year is far less than the 50% of required residency time that custodial parents would require to have their kids in DC. And, again, frankly, does the welfare of any children who aren't yours matter to you AT ALL? This woman was not a residency cheater. She was a mother trying to do her best.

And I'm pretty sure if she was a diplomat's wife and they'd been relocated but were keeping their kids in the same school system for continuity for two months while they lived with the grandparents in Chevy Chase.... you'd say, "but of course."


But... but... cheating! I know. You have a stick in your ass the size of Gibraltar on this issue. You've made it clear over and over again. But really, like other people have said, I think ithis is really about black people for you. If you didn't bring up government workers and PG county every other post, I would not think so? I might take your points more seriously? But you do.

And that is why you are full of shit. This isn't about residency cheaters. This is about you.

I'm not the PP to which you're referring, but I would say that YOU have a real problem with the law and ought to get the hell out of DCPS. You're a bad employee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know, I might have missed that fact except you've posted it nearly a dozen times already. Do you think you can work in the former mayor and the culture of entitlement too? Are you sad there are black kids in your child's amidon bowen prek4 class?

Hey dingbat, can't wait to hear how many cheaters there are outside of Amidon tomorrow. Gotta love that free all-day until 5:00 PM daycare and food for Md. and Va. cheaters. You suck.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My school just asked for supplemental information to prove our residency.

We had it, of course, but I take this as a sign that they do investigate, they are on top of it, and all the crazy stalking moms standing on sidewalks writing down license plates isn't doing anything. (We have DC plates. You know, because we live in DC.)

Maybe they need to make pointed investigations on the low-hanging fruit, i.e. parents dropping off kids in front of the school with out-of-state tags. That would be a better use of resources. DCPS administrators aren't the brightest bulbs....

Well who do you think DCPS can get for the front office with a low paying salary.

Have you checked out the salaries? Administrators, as in people in management positions, get paid very well in DCPS. They probably make well more than you, and have more common sense to boot. The administrators set the policy and instruct the staff on what procedures to follow. Instructing staff to follow up on red flag issues such as Md. tags by requiring additional substantiation of residence, and making a referral to MPD or DMV that out-of-state tags are illegally on a DC-based vehicle (if appropriate), would be what an administrator would do. This all assumes they care about residency fraud. The point of this thread is that it appears they don't care, which is very regrettable.

It's kinda weird how you attest to the fact that DCPS is taking steps to addres residency fraud and then regret that DCPS doesn't care about residency fraud. Even while you read about why there might be MD tags at drop off, and examples of DCPS enforcing proof of residency, you atre compelled to attend this thread which serves no purpose except kvetching about a) perceived overcrowding at your perceived elite public school, or b) perceived high percentage of brown-faced kids at your perceived elite public school.

There's really no other reason to raise such a high and pointless stink. There are no DC kids losing sests. Amidon Bowen, like many DCPS schools is under capacity. http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Amidon-Bowen%20ES.pdf. While there may be residency cheaters, the number of DC residing kids cheated of a seat is zero.

I'm not the PP who wondered at the douchebaggery of people overly concerned about this, but will confirm said douchebaggery of people who think it's no big deal to take time off work, because said douchebags obviously don't work. I would say get a fucking life, but it seems this brand of lowlife has a critical dearth of aspiration. To me, that's actually more dire to our nation's future than the 3-5 families at my kids elementary school who may not live in DC. I'd much rather ridicule the ridiculous cheat brigade for as long as you have time and energy to post your ridiculous accusations than spend even a second persuing someone's MD license plate.

Get a real job, douchebags. One that pays you to show up and contribute something meaningful. You'll feel better about your sad life and provide a better example to your kids of what community and true citizenry means. Building the workforce is, after all, the reason for public schooling. I want my tax dollars ensuring that even the progeny of douchebags know how to, and know the value of, work.

No matter what douchebag neighborhood they come from.

[Anonymous]

Even if DC students are not losing seats at some undersubscribed DCPS, the taxpayers are certainly being cheated. Why should DC residents, who already shoulder some of the nation's highest tax burdens, also provide free public education for PG residents, especially when there are no many unmet priorities in the District? And at the school level, each fraudster essentially commits a theft of DCPS resources, that otherwise might be better utilized to fund more science teachers or reading tutors or school libraries.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I don't understand all the hate directed against the anti-fraud folks. Residency fraud is something that really is happening, and not in the single digits. Does anyone disagree with that? OK, if we can agree with the fact that fraud is occurring, then how can you not want to see it ended? Is it because it is not any significant crime at all -- like, I dunno, jaywalking? If it's like jaywalking, then you're a "douchebag" to want to see it policed effectively, right?

Except it's not on the same level as jaywalking. Not even close.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't matter whether some schools are under-capacity. Kids attending from out-of-DC must be paid for with money earmarked for DC kids. Is it so hard to understand something this simple?

[Anonymous]

8:45 @ Amidon -Bowen. 5 MD tags, 1 VA tag and 1 with international tags dropping off kids right in front of the school.

[Anonymous]

If you claim residency preference for a DC job you have to show EIGHT forms of proof. Yes eight. Why don;t we make the MD tag folks show eight as well. I just don't buy that there are this many MD nannies doing drop off (how many people employ a nanny at 8am to take their kid to a full time school?-the answer, almost no one). Everyone who complains on this board needs to actually complain where it matters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I don't understand all the hate directed against the anti-fraud folks. Residency fraud is something that really is happening, and not in the single digits. Does anyone disagree with that? OK, if we can agree with the fact that fraud is occurring, then how can you not want to see it ended? Is it because it is not any significant crime at all -- like, I dunno, jaywalking? If it's like jaywalking, then you're a "douchebag" to want to see it policed effectively, right?

Except it's not on the same level as jaywalking. Not even close.

I've heard estimates that as high as 10 percent of Deal and Wilson students could really be Maryland residents, who have come up through feeders. That would not be trivial, particularly in sought-after overcrowded schools where DCPS has been redrawing boundary lines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
There's really no other reason to raise such a high and pointless stink. There are no DC kids losing sests. Amidon Bowen, like many DCPS schools is under capacity. http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Amidon-Bowen%20ES.pdf. While there may be residency cheaters, the number of DC residing kids cheated of a seat is zero.

There are residency cheats at Deal and Deal feeders. I know because I know some of them, I know where they actually live. It's well-documented that there are residency cheats at Wilson as well. At all of those schools every seat taken by a residency cheater is a seat taken away from a DC resident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even if DC students are not losing seats at some undersubscribed DCPS, the taxpayers are certainly being cheated. Why should DC residents, who already shoulder some of the nation's highest tax burdens, also provide free public education for PG residents, especially when there are no many unmet priorities in the District? And at the school level, each fraudster essentially commits a theft of DCPS resources, that otherwise might be better utilized to fund more science teachers or reading tutors or school libraries.

NP. This is why I really cannot take posters like you serious. You are only concerned about PG resident cheaters. If DC is the only jurisdiction in the area that provides free all-day PS-K what makes you think that only PG residents would take advantage? I call BS on all your accusations because it is obvious that you are a race-baiting, biased induced, hate-monger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
There's really no other reason to raise such a high and pointless stink. There are no DC kids losing sests. Amidon Bowen, like many DCPS schools is under capacity. http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Amidon-Bowen%20ES.pdf. While there may be residency cheaters, the number of DC residing kids cheated of a seat is zero.

There are residency cheats at Deal and Deal feeders. I know because I know some of them, I know where they actually live. It's well-documented that there are residency cheats at Wilson as well. At all of those schools every seat taken by a residency cheater is a seat taken away from a DC resident.

Well if this is not pure speculation, you should provide this information to OSSE, DCPS and perhaps Cheah. I only write this because you said you have proof. Provide the authorities with your proof.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you claim residency [b]preference for a DC job you have to show EIGHT forms of proof. Yes eight.[b] Why don;t we make the MD tag folks show eight as well. I just don't buy that there are this many MD nannies doing drop off (how many people employ a nanny at 8am to take their kid to a full time school?-the answer, almost no one). Everyone who complains on this board needs to actually complain where it matters.

I didn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you claim residency preference for a DC job you have to show EIGHT forms of proof. Yes eight. Why don;t we make the MD tag folks show eight as well. I just don't buy that there are this many MD nannies doing drop off (how many people employ a nanny at 8am to take their kid to a full time school?-the answer, almost no one). Everyone who complains on this board needs to actually complain where it matters.

I did not have to provide eight forms of proof. Heck, I don't think I have eight forms of proof, and I've lived in the District for almost 20 years.

[Anonymous]

I know for a fact two recent hires in District govt who claim residency preference and yes they must show 8 forms of proof. And live in the District for the next 7 years or could be fired at will since they claimed preference. Seems like a good plan for school cheaters.