OSSE truly cracking down on out of boundary this year?

[Anonymous]

Our low-income, high-ELL DCPS elementary (prefer not to name it) has a fair number of kids who live in Maryland. We got a pretty shocking letter from our principal saying that school staff will be doing home audits next year and families could be fined if they're lying about their address. It also says the school's budget will be cut $10,000/per kid for violations.

We have been at this school 6 years and I've never seen anything like this. A little unsettling as some of my kids' good friends live in MD. They are hard working, involved families with good kids; I figured the school must know but tolerated their cheating the system until now. Maybe they aren't being given a choice this year. Does anybody know more? Have others gotten this kind of letter?

[Anonymous]

PS I mislabelled the subject line, should be "address cheaters" or something

[Anonymous]

Cutting a school's budget by 10k a violation is certainly a way for administrators to be more vigilant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cutting a school's budget by 10k a violation is certainly a way for administrators to be more vigilant.

$10k roughly represents what they'll lose per head if parents are cheating.

I'm going to guess this is just a compliane exercise and/or fair warning for the cheaters to get their ducks in a row.

[Anonymous]

I have zero sympathy for residency cheaters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cutting a school's budget by 10k a violation is certainly a way for administrators to be more vigilant.

$10k roughly represents what they'll lose per head if parents are cheating.

I'm going to guess this is just a compliane exercise and/or fair warning for the cheaters to get their ducks in a row.

Shocked, shocked to hear that there is residency cheating going on. I'm sure that all of those MD vehicles at dropoff and pickup are nannies and divorceD parents simply returning their children after a sleepover in MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have zero sympathy for residency cheaters.

A number of them seem to have day jobs with the DC government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have zero sympathy for residency cheaters.

A number of them seem to have day jobs with the DC government.

That they should be fired from, since they are committing fraud.

[Anonymous]

Why penalize the kids at the school who live in DC? That's what a $10K/per cheater cut would do by reducing funding for the school and kids who are legitimately there. Instead, they should just go after the cheater and seek reimbursement or kick them out of the school system.

[Anonymous]

Are these PK cheaters? Why would they otherwise want to be in DCPS vs their suburban system?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are these PK cheaters? Why would they otherwise want to be in DCPS vs their suburban system?

I don't know. There are at least a few at our school from Silver Spring. I'd imagine in some cases they feel the DCPS is a better option--other times, I wonder if it's just convenience to their work.

[Anonymous]

NP. Are there really that many??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these PK cheaters? Why would they otherwise want to be in DCPS vs their suburban system?

I don't know. There are at least a few at our school from Silver Spring. I'd imagine in some cases they feel the DCPS is a better option--other times, I wonder if it's just convenience to their work.

It's convenience to family for aftercare and pickups, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these PK cheaters? Why would they otherwise want to be in DCPS vs their suburban system?

I don't know. There are at least a few at our school from Silver Spring. I'd imagine in some cases they feel the DCPS is a better option--other times, I wonder if it's just convenience to their work.

PP again. I should say that I don't actually know any families who for sure live in Md. I've just heard rumors/secondhand information that have not implicated specific, identifiable families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these PK cheaters? Why would they otherwise want to be in DCPS vs their suburban system?

I don't know. There are at least a few at our school from Silver Spring. I'd imagine in some cases they feel the DCPS is a better option--other times, I wonder if it's just convenience to their work.

It's convenience to family for aftercare and pickups, too.

Aftercare at some schools is relatively cheap.