First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if cheating parents aren't prosecuted, any DC government workers caught fraudulently enrolling their kids in DCPS should be fired promptly. Of course, they should be made to pay back tuition, costs and interest to DCPS or the charter board.

You cannot terminate someone from their place of employment if the offense is not job related, or can be connected to the job. DC statute(s) have not been codified to make this a criminal offense, so you cannot even call it a criminal conviction if the city pursues legal redress for the residency violation.

If the job is a position of trust, offenses of character are relevant to the job.

I'm sorry but not all government jobs require a position of trust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if cheating parents aren't prosecuted, any DC government workers caught fraudulently enrolling their kids in DCPS should be fired promptly. Of course, they should be made to pay back tuition, costs and interest to DCPS or the charter board.

You cannot terminate someone from their place of employment if the offense is not job related, or can be connected to the job. DC statute(s) have not been codified to make this a criminal offense, so you cannot even call it a criminal conviction if the city pursues legal redress for the residency violation.

If the job is a position of trust, offenses of character are relevant to the job.

I'm sorry but not all government jobs require a position of trust.

Maybe, but committing fraud against the DC government should get one fired from working for the DC government!

[Anonymous]

My friend and I have been taking photos unobtrusively outside our ES. We plan to share these with the principal and OSSE.

[Anonymous]

I'm glad to hear you have a friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend and I have been taking photos unobtrusively outside our ES. We plan to share these with the principal and OSSE.

You are wasting your time. Even the OSSE form for reporting suspected fraud says that out of state plates alone are not enough to open an investigation. So unless you are also unobtrusively tailing these cars to homes outside of the district just stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend and I have been taking photos unobtrusively outside our ES. We plan to share these with the principal and OSSE.

You are wasting your time. Even the OSSE form for reporting suspected fraud says that out of state plates alone are not enough to open an investigation. So unless you are also unobtrusively tailing these cars to homes outside of the district just stop.

I have no desire to go into those neighborhoods. Just knowing that they don't belong is enough to confront the cheater.

[Anonymous]

Or, as in many cases, if there is a legitimate reason why someone who lives in Maryland is dropping off the child, confronting them is a sure way of helping establish who is the biggest asshole mom at your school. I'm sure there will be no blowback whatsoever for your own children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or, as in many cases, if there is a legitimate reason why someone who lives in Maryland is dropping off the child, confronting them is a sure way of helping establish who is the biggest asshole mom at your school. I'm sure there will be no blowback whatsoever for your own children.

Schools know very well what's going on and who's who.

Our school has crossing guards who see scores of cars with mostly MD tags drop their kid at the corner just up a block from the entrance then go to their government jobs on Capitol Hill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or, as in many cases, if there is a legitimate reason why someone who lives in Maryland is dropping off the child, confronting them is a sure way of helping establish who is the biggest asshole mom at your school. I'm sure there will be no blowback whatsoever for your own children.

Schools know very well what's going on and who's who.

Our school has crossing guards who see scores of cars with mostly MD tags drop their kid at the corner just up a block from the entrance then go to their government jobs on Capitol Hill.

Ditto. The crossing guard at my son's NW elementary school said the same thing to me a while back. She said she would have loved to send her kid there, but didn't get through the lottery. But she said that others "with friends in the system" got their kids in, even from MD.

[Anonymous]

God forbid, government jobs! In dc! I have to say, I'm shocked. I'm sure you came here to work in publishing, or banking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:God forbid, government jobs! In dc! I have to say, I'm shocked. I'm sure you came here to work in publishing, or banking.

There's a big difference between working for the Federal government and working for good 'ol Deecee.

[Anonymous]

Yes, there is. Working for the feds means you get to be completely inefficient (as you are, one assumes, since you can't even report on residency fraud correctly) on a much, much larger scale.

[Anonymous]

One way to reduce residency fraud is to require DC government employees to live in the District. If they live in PG, they're gone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One way to reduce residency fraud is to require DC government employees to live in the District. If they live in PG, they're gone.

Wouldn't that lead to just wider-scale residency fraud?

[Anonymous]

About 30 pages ago there was a discussion comparing church parking with residency cheating. Just saw this:

http://www.popville.com/2015/10/attending-church-does-not-make-you-more-entitled-to-public-roads/?ic_source=ic-featured-frontpage-top