First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

My daughter will get dropped off daily with MD tags. We live in DC but my parents, who watch the kids, live in MD and they handle drop off and pick up. Every. Single. Day. Don't be a vigilante and try to have some faith in the system.

FWIW, my DD will be starting pre-k4 at Bethune who gets criticized all over DCUM for having MD families. Guess I need to prepare myself for nasty looks. The school does home visits, so there is no way we could be lying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you really trying to compare a terrorist attack that could kill hundreds to thousands of innocent people to out of state tags?

Mmkay.

Of course not, and I'm actually not the most die-hard on the residency cheat issue (except in a proven case like those cops who were busted for using a rental apartment). Just pointing out that the analogy was sound and the critique of it was based on a misunderstanding.

[Anonymous]

These. Women. Need. Therapy.

If there is a 1 in 100 hot of your child getting into pk3, a program that does not exist in most of the US AT ALL, you should be more concerned with expanding the program, rather than the 5 students put of the hundred lotterying with you who "might" be cheating the system.

But I'm rich, and I have a 2 year old, so let's play pretend.

We live in Mount pleasant. If I rent a studio apartment next year zoned foruch, I've "bought" the right to lottery in boundary? Correct? You'd have no problem with that?

[Anonymous]

A lot of car tags dropping off and picking up kids at Capitol Hill public schools have DC tags.

[Anonymous]

DC school bureaucrats don't give a damn because it allows them to soak DC residents for more property tax dollars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter will get dropped off daily with MD tags. We live in DC but my parents, who watch the kids, live in MD and they handle drop off and pick up. Every. Single. Day. Don't be a vigilante and try to have some faith in the system.

FWIW, my DD will be starting pre-k4 at Bethune who gets criticized all over DCUM for having MD families. Guess I need to prepare myself for nasty looks. The school does home visits, so there is no way we could be lying

You said "every day" your parents will drop off. So the first day of school you are not going to drop off? OP mentioned it was the first day of school when she saw several cars with MD plates. So if your parents do drop off the first day expect dirty looks. Any other day perhaps not.

[Anonymous]

I am still so amazed there are so many women willing to make blind, blanket assumptions about someone else's life. I can't believe this is actually true in real life... perhaps just there's a small and obsessive cohort here, who are all.obsessed.

And pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter will get dropped off daily with MD tags. We live in DC but my parents, who watch the kids, live in MD and they handle drop off and pick up. Every. Single. Day. Don't be a vigilante and try to have some faith in the system.

FWIW, my DD will be starting pre-k4 at Bethune who gets criticized all over DCUM for having MD families. Guess I need to prepare myself for nasty looks. The school does home visits, so there is no way we could be lying

How does that even work? Your parents drive from Maryland to DC to 'watch' school age children and take them
To school. Wow that's very generous of them.

and no, you could still be lying if the school does home visits. I mean - how hard is it to set up a bedroom in the DC house and make it look like the kid is living there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am still so amazed there are so many women willing to make blind, blanket assumptions about someone else's life. I can't believe this is actually true in real life... perhaps just there's a small and obsessive cohort here, who are all.obsessed.

And pathetic.

No you're pathetic and a cheater likely.
The women are not making assumptions but scratching their heads. They want to report their suspicion and let the authorities deal with it. See the difference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter will get dropped off daily with MD tags. We live in DC but my parents, who watch the kids, live in MD and they handle drop off and pick up. Every. Single. Day. Don't be a vigilante and try to have some faith in the system.

FWIW, my DD will be starting pre-k4 at Bethune who gets criticized all over DCUM for having MD families. Guess I need to prepare myself for nasty looks. The school does home visits, so there is no way we could be lying

How does that even work? Your parents drive from Maryland to DC to 'watch' school age children and take them
To school. Wow that's very generous of them.

and no, you could still be lying if the school does home visits. I mean - how hard is it to set up a bedroom in the DC house and make it look like the kid is living there?

+1 please walk us through this, pp, because I can't understand how/why grandparents would drive with rush hour traffic into DC every morning to get your kids, drop them off, then what? Hang around all day at your house? Where do they park the car? Do you have a driveway or garage? And then they pick them up, take them home to your house, and then go back to MD? For 150+ days a year? Sure they aren't just starting this Monday morning and then having the kids sleep at their house every night until Friday, which makes them MD residents? Because this is essentially what my neighbors do in reverse. The grandparents live across from a very good DCPS and the grandchild stays with them all week and then the parents come and get her to go home to MD every weekend.Shady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter will get dropped off daily with MD tags. We live in DC but my parents, who watch the kids, live in MD and they handle drop off and pick up. Every. Single. Day. Don't be a vigilante and try to have some faith in the system.

FWIW, my DD will be starting pre-k4 at Bethune who gets criticized all over DCUM for having MD families. Guess I need to prepare myself for nasty looks. The school does home visits, so there is no way we could be lying

How does that even work? Your parents drive from Maryland to DC to 'watch' school age children and take them
To school. Wow that's very generous of them.

and no, you could still be lying if the school does home visits. I mean - how hard is it to set up a bedroom in the DC house and make it look like the kid is living there?

I'm not the PP you're responding to, but wow, you are looney tunes if you think that PP obtained a house in DC and staged a kid's bedroom complete with furniture, clothing, and toys to pass a home visit.

[Anonymous]

What is wrong with you people, seriously? Maybe the person with the grandparents lives close to the MD border, and the grandparents live close to them but in MD. Why so much doubt? Do you really think that person would come onto DCUM and just make something up?

[Anonymous]

Exactly, I live in Dwtn SS and could easily drive into DC several times a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter will get dropped off daily with MD tags. We live in DC but my parents, who watch the kids, live in MD and they handle drop off and pick up. Every. Single. Day. Don't be a vigilante and try to have some faith in the system.

FWIW, my DD will be starting pre-k4 at Bethune who gets criticized all over DCUM for having MD families. Guess I need to prepare myself for nasty looks. The school does home visits, so there is no way we could be lying

How does that even work? Your parents drive from Maryland to DC to 'watch' school age children and take them
To school. Wow that's very generous of them.

and no, you could still be lying if the school does home visits. I mean - how hard is it to set up a bedroom in the DC house and make it look like the kid is living there?

I'm not the PP you're responding to, but wow, you are looney tunes if you think that PP obtained a house in DC and staged a kid's bedroom complete with furniture, clothing, and toys to pass a home visit.

It's not looney tunes. And no one is saying that PP did that. But people do go to extreme lengths at times, and this includes using DC office address as their 'residence,' renting studios or basement apartments, pretending their rental property is their residence, using an ex's address when the ex gets weekend custody, etc. The list goes and and on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with you people, seriously? Maybe the person with the grandparents lives close to the MD border, and the grandparents live close to them but in MD. Why so much doubt? Do you really think that person would come onto DCUM and just make something up?

We have doubt because WE actually are DC residents and know the reality of living in DC, driving around DC, registering cars in DC, out of state residency violations (re: parking your MD tagged car in DC), etc.