MD scofflaws?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10:47...read a DC license plate and you'll clearly understand what I am saying. Let's be real, if a large percentage of the DCPS students are FARM which one could assume that their tax-liability is zilch to a drop in the bucket, then why are you the new poor, so worried.

I am reading that parents should start turning other parents in for infractions? The liability for that would only make a lawyer rich with all the nuisance cases that would begin to arise.

Weighted Student Formula Funding and a student that is being driven to the school in a car with MD tags. Are you freaking serious, you better hope that principals haven't started their own shuttle service from the counties.

I laugh in your face. What have we become the School Nazi... No school for you, go!!!!

What does FARM mean?

Free and Reduced Meal Status
used as an indicator of income levels at a school; below a certain threshold qualifies for reduced, and below even that qualifies for free, meals at school - students in these categories often receive breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack at aftercare (= dinner).

[Anonymous]

Yes, that's right. No FREE school for you, if you are not a DC resident. It is THAT black and white, cut and dry. Call us Nazi's if you will, but my taxes should not be paying for the education of students who live in other states --often because their parents prefer to pay lower state taxes. This just adds insult to injury.

[Anonymous]

PG taxes are NOT lower.

[Anonymous]

What are transplanted DC residents but PG county residents with benefits? Therefore many are using addresses of extended family members and have no after thought. It would take an election ballot initiative before anything will change. That's the black and white of it, cut and dry. As for the nazi reference it is just the new "n" word in a world of blogging. It's September go after those who you assume have violated the residency rule. Come back to us in June with your bount and we will re-access the situation.

1-2-3 Go!

[Anonymous]

I just saw and heard it for myself on local tv. The news segment was that viewers share a picture of their childrens' first day of school. Well a tv viewer sent in a picture of her two children. The news anchor announces the school they both attend and you got it; one went to a DCPS and the other to PGPS. It was not disclosed where they reside but two children and two different school districts was there for all to see and hear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just saw and heard it for myself on local tv. The news segment was that viewers share a picture of their childrens' first day of school. Well a tv viewer sent in a picture of her two children. The news anchor announces the school they both attend and you got it; one went to a DCPS and the other to PGPS. It was not disclosed where they reside but two children and two different school districts was there for all to see and hear.

There are plenty of families with joint custody, or other situations where this can happen.

[Anonymous]

Children that are wards of the DC courts (homeless and foster children removed from the DC home for sex abuse, violence, incarceration of the parents, etc) may reside in Maryland. There currently is an existing lack of DC residents willing to be foster parents that also have adequate space to accommodate a foster child. If the foster child lives in maryland or virginia, and the foster parent is willing to bring the child or arrange transportation to DC, the child can attend in DC for free.

[Anonymous]

Interesting article in NYT re Greenwich, CT: "Schools Look to Weed Out Nonresidents."