Boundary Cheaters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why you might see Maryland license plates at pick up/drop off:

-Nanny/babysitter/carpool with the driver being from Md.
-Lazy parents: move from Md to DC, too lazy to actually change registration.
-Split home: mom has primary custody of kids, but dad drops kids off on Mondays/ picks up on Friday (etc)
-Relitives: grandma decides to drop grand kids off once and a while. Etc.
-Actual cheaters coming in from Virginia.

When my DS was a student at Walls, he often got a ride from a family friend who lives just across the line, and who worked two blocks from the school. It was easy, and we lived in DC, but he would be dropped off from a car with Md plates. The horror!

I'm calling shenanigans on this one. Unless you have off street parking, DC parking enforcement will issue a ticket for having an out of states licensee plate within a month or two of moving. I joke about how DC parking enforcement is the only efficient governmental department.

plenty of people keep their car registration in MD or VA, because it saves money. not everywhere has RPPs.

Oh, so they're violating a different law. Awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two of my daughters friends are cheaters, but I don't care. Policing is up to DCPS. They don't care, I don't care.

Well, I care. It's a little much to be told that Deal is too crowded for my kids, while a bunch of PG kids have burrowed in. They should find the cheating families, root them out and prosecute the parents for residency fraud.

This thread is about DC residents out of bound for Deal cheating to get in, but maybe it is only the MD cheaters at Deal you care about. Carry on.

[Anonymous]

Another one, and I write this with sympathy: people not legally in the US for whom there is no point in matching car tags to actual residence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why you might see Maryland license plates at pick up/drop off:

-Nanny/babysitter/carpool with the driver being from Md.
-Lazy parents: move from Md to DC, too lazy to actually change registration.
-Split home: mom has primary custody of kids, but dad drops kids off on Mondays/ picks up on Friday (etc)
-Relitives: grandma decides to drop grand kids off once and a while. Etc.
-Actual cheaters coming in from Virginia.

When my DS was a student at Walls, he often got a ride from a family friend who lives just across the line, and who worked two blocks from the school. It was easy, and we lived in DC, but he would be dropped off from a car with Md plates. The horror!

I'm calling shenanigans on this one. Unless you have off street parking, DC parking enforcement will issue a ticket for having an out of states licensee plate within a month or two of moving. I joke about how DC parking enforcement is the only efficient governmental department.

We have off-street parking, and husband is never giving up his MD plates. MD license registration is far cheaper and more efficient than DC. I wish I had never given up my FL plates, but I was a sucker back then. If I had to do it over, I wouldn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why you might see Maryland license plates at pick up/drop off:

-Nanny/babysitter/carpool with the driver being from Md.
-Lazy parents: move from Md to DC, too lazy to actually change registration.
-Split home: mom has primary custody of kids, but dad drops kids off on Mondays/ picks up on Friday (etc)
-Relitives: grandma decides to drop grand kids off once and a while. Etc.
-Actual cheaters coming in from Virginia.

When my DS was a student at Walls, he often got a ride from a family friend who lives just across the line, and who worked two blocks from the school. It was easy, and we lived in DC, but he would be dropped off from a car with Md plates. The horror!

I'm calling shenanigans on this one. Unless you have off street parking, DC parking enforcement will issue a ticket for having an out of states licensee plate within a month or two of moving. I joke about how DC parking enforcement is the only efficient governmental department.

We have off-street parking, and husband is never giving up his MD plates. MD license registration is far cheaper and more efficient than DC. I wish I had never given up my FL plates, but I was a sucker back then. If I had to do it over, I wouldn't.

That's your choice, but then don't complain if you are investigated for residency fraud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
We have off-street parking, and husband is never giving up his MD plates. MD license registration is far cheaper and more efficient than DC. I wish I had never given up my FL plates, but I was a sucker back then. If I had to do it over, I wouldn't.

I sure hope you are not one of the motorists complaining about scofflaw cyclists

[Anonymous]

There must be neighborhoods in D.C. where there's no parking enforcement whatsoever. Where I live (upper NW) any out-of-state tags parked for longer than 2 hrs are going to get a ticket pretty quick...to say the least of an out-of-state tag sitting in my neighborhood for longer than one day. You'd have your car towed before you know it. The selective enforcement baffles me...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why you might see Maryland license plates at pick up/drop off:

-Nanny/babysitter/carpool with the driver being from Md.
-Lazy parents: move from Md to DC, too lazy to actually change registration.
-Split home: mom has primary custody of kids, but dad drops kids off on Mondays/ picks up on Friday (etc)
-Relitives: grandma decides to drop grand kids off once and a while. Etc.
-Actual cheaters coming in from Virginia.

When my DS was a student at Walls, he often got a ride from a family friend who lives just across the line, and who worked two blocks from the school. It was easy, and we lived in DC, but he would be dropped off from a car with Md plates. The horror!

I'm calling shenanigans on this one. Unless you have off street parking, DC parking enforcement will issue a ticket for having an out of states licensee plate within a month or two of moving. I joke about how DC parking enforcement is the only efficient governmental department.

We have off-street parking, and husband is never giving up his MD plates. MD license registration is far cheaper and more efficient than DC. I wish I had never given up my FL plates, but I was a sucker back then. If I had to do it over, I wouldn't.

That's your choice, but then don't complain if you are investigated for residency fraud.

Or for violating DC's ROSA (registration of out of state vehicles law). And when you get in an accident, and your insurer notices that you really live in DC, they'll deny coverage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There must be neighborhoods in D.C. where there's no parking enforcement whatsoever. Where I live (upper NW) any out-of-state tags parked for longer than 2 hrs are going to get a ticket pretty quick...to say the least of an out-of-state tag sitting in my neighborhood for longer than one day. You'd have your car towed before you know it. The selective enforcement baffles me...

One can only speculate on why parking enforcement gives some neighborhoods a pass on parking enforcement and are relentless in other areas.

Unfortunately, the free visitor parking placard mailed to all households (including apartments) at addresses zoned for RPP in certain wards, has lately created abuse where residents at those addresses who have recently moved from out of state use them to avoid registering their cars in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: I think parents need to make this cheating a political issue as part of the mayor's race, if anything is going to change.

That is hilarious. There are tons more people in DC who will vote against someone threatening to root out address cheaters than those who will consider it a reason to vote for someone. There is no way this will become a major issue in the mayoral campaign.

Anecdotally it seems pretty clear that the pro-cheater constituency outvotes the anti-cheater constituency.

Yeah -- D.C. seems to have a fairly low concentration of citizens who agree that a desire to abide by the law is a good thing. An anthropologist should be encouraged to look into this social phenomenon.

Yes, from the grass roots to the halls of the District building, evading the law is second nature for many. It's a DC thang. You wouldn't understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This year I'm taking pictures of suspicious MD plated cars and will share with DCPS investigators and the school principal.

Yes, if we care about making sure the best DC schools have space for the most kids in the District, IB and OOB, then we all need to take responsibility for outing the MD cheaters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This year I'm taking pictures of suspicious MD plated cars and will share with DCPS investigators and the school principal.

Yes, if we care about making sure the best DC schools have space for the most kids in the District, IB and OOB, then we all need to take responsibility for outing the MD cheaters.

All the cheaters must claim a DC address someplace, whether it be with a family member or friend. As someone stated earlier, even when an enforcement/verification visit is set up, the enforcement officers barely care to scratch the surface of the situation (such as asking questions, show me your residency papers, etc.) -- they just want to see someone there who matches the name. It's a lost cause.

[Anonymous]

Seriously. Must we rehash this tired topic every few months? Let it go! And by the way--as it's been said 5 billion times on this forum--out of District license plates are not considered evidence of residency fraud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why you might see Maryland license plates at pick up/drop off:

-Nanny/babysitter/carpool with the driver being from Md.
-Lazy parents: move from Md to DC, too lazy to actually change registration.
-Split home: mom has primary custody of kids, but dad drops kids off on Mondays/ picks up on Friday (etc)
-Relitives: grandma decides to drop grand kids off once and a while. Etc.
-Actual cheaters coming in from Virginia.

When my DS was a student at Walls, he often got a ride from a family friend who lives just across the line, and who worked two blocks from the school. It was easy, and we lived in DC, but he would be dropped off from a car with Md plates. The horror!

I'm calling shenanigans on this one. Unless you have off street parking, DC parking enforcement will issue a ticket for having an out of states licensee plate within a month or two of moving. I joke about how DC parking enforcement is the only efficient governmental department.

We have off-street parking, and husband is never giving up his MD plates. MD license registration is far cheaper and more efficient than DC. I wish I had never given up my FL plates, but I was a sucker back then. If I had to do it over, I wouldn't.

That's your choice, but then don't complain if you are investigated for residency fraud.

I think I can still complain. Who is going to prevent me from making a complaint. You? Ha!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. Must we rehash this tired topic every few months? Let it go! And by the way--as it's been said 5 billion times on this forum--out of District license plates are not considered evidence of residency fraud.

It won't be tired until DCPS does something about residency fraud. Folks are re-energized to ensure that DCPS acts, as they watch boundaries being re-jiggered while MD kids remain burrowed into in-demand schools. This is called theft of services from the taxpayers and theft of opportunity from kids who actually live in the District.

And, no, an out of state plate is not conclusive evidence of residency fraud, but repeated tranport to/from school in such a vehicle should be a flag for follow up to ensure that the child legitimately lives in DC. I wonder if those who want to let it go are those who have a self-interest in sweeping it under the rug.