Maryland Kids Attending DC Schools

[Anonymous]

New poster. Why are you here? This is a thread about DCPS. Go back to your thread and derail over there. Thanks and bye.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS parent here, and I feel like I must be missing something. DCPS has free preschool across the board, rather than just Head Start, right? So people believe MD folks will sneak their 3 & 4 year olds across the border to avoid paying for pre-school if they live in MD.

So is that the concern? Or do DCPS parents also think MD kids aged 5-18 are sneaking into DCPS? And if so, why? I can see a federal employee parent wanting to get out of paying for preschool (it's wrong, of course. But I believe it happens). But once kindergarten starts, what is the rationale believing that any MCPS parents aren't just using MD schools?

Also, where are the VA Parents (FCPS/APS/ACPS) while this is going on? Why do DCPS parents think MD parents are residence cheats, but not VA parents?

Thanks! Now back to your regularly scheduled sniping...

FCPS poster- why are you on this thread since it doesn't concern you at all? Why ask about a DC issue, known to DC parents? Go away and get a life.

Well, this showed up on recent topics. I clicked a link. I read the posts. You know, like everyone else on DCUM. I found the assumption that MD parents cheat, but no mention of VA interesting. This is a legitimate, non-trolley, non-snarky question. Why would MCPS parents do this and not FCPS? If I was going to residency cheat, I would just do it within FCPS. Why is MCPS not the same? And why don't poor kids in MCPS just use their own head start?

The PGCS answer makes sense. I hadn't considered that.

I have as much right to participate as you do. So STFU.

"Hi, just popping in here. Please summarize the last 5 years of discussion on this topic for me real quick. Kthxbai!"

HaHa! Totally agree. Go away FCPS poster. FCPS sucks and I'd sooner die than live in that dump. Get a life.

Wow. That's a lot of hostility. It's really interesting that's there is so much resentment by a DCPS parent against FCPS. Does it really bother you that much that you are stuck choosing between a crappy neighborhood school and shelling out $$$ for private? Meanwhile, 7 miles away, my DC1 is attending TJ and DC2 is in AAP at a TJ feeder MS that is consistently rated as one of the top 5 middle schools in VA. For free. I guess if I were in your shoes, I'd lash out too. *Hugs* PP. It must be really hard to be a DCPS parent.

[Anonymous]

It always kind of chokes me up and makes me happy when we all unite around a common cause, like hating Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It always kind of chokes me up and makes me happy when we all unite around a common cause, like hating Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New poster. Why are you here? This is a thread about DCPS. Go back to your thread and derail over there. Thanks and bye.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS parent here, and I feel like I must be missing something. DCPS has free preschool across the board, rather than just Head Start, right? So people believe MD folks will sneak their 3 & 4 year olds across the border to avoid paying for pre-school if they live in MD.

So is that the concern? Or do DCPS parents also think MD kids aged 5-18 are sneaking into DCPS? And if so, why? I can see a federal employee parent wanting to get out of paying for preschool (it's wrong, of course. But I believe it happens). But once kindergarten starts, what is the rationale believing that any MCPS parents aren't just using MD schools?

Also, where are the VA Parents (FCPS/APS/ACPS) while this is going on? Why do DCPS parents think MD parents are residence cheats, but not VA parents?

Thanks! Now back to your regularly scheduled sniping...

FCPS poster- why are you on this thread since it doesn't concern you at all? Why ask about a DC issue, known to DC parents? Go away and get a life.

Well, this showed up on recent topics. I clicked a link. I read the posts. You know, like everyone else on DCUM. I found the assumption that MD parents cheat, but no mention of VA interesting. This is a legitimate, non-trolley, non-snarky question. Why would MCPS parents do this and not FCPS? If I was going to residency cheat, I would just do it within FCPS. Why is MCPS not the same? And why don't poor kids in MCPS just use their own head start?

The PGCS answer makes sense. I hadn't considered that.

I have as much right to participate as you do. So STFU.

"Hi, just popping in here. Please summarize the last 5 years of discussion on this topic for me real quick. Kthxbai!"

HaHa! Totally agree. Go away FCPS poster. FCPS sucks and I'd sooner die than live in that dump. Get a life.

Wow. That's a lot of hostility. It's really interesting that's there is so much resentment by a DCPS parent against FCPS. Does it really bother you that much that you are stuck choosing between a crappy neighborhood school and shelling out $$$ for private? Meanwhile, 7 miles away, my DC1 is attending TJ and DC2 is in AAP at a TJ feeder MS that is consistently rated as one of the top 5 middle schools in VA. For free. I guess if I were in your shoes, I'd lash out too. *Hugs* PP. It must be really hard to be a DCPS parent.

In what alternate universe are you 7 miles from DC while living in Fairfax County?

[Anonymous]

In what alternate universe are you 7 miles from DC while living in Fairfax County?

NP. I think the alternate universe is yours. The FFX County line meets the District's at the Potomac River. It's less than half a mile from Chain Bridge. All of McLean and parts of Dunn Loring and Vienna are within seven miles of DC, sorry.

[Anonymous]

Today I was driving behind a silver Honda with a YY sticker and MD plates. Hope it was a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today I was driving behind a silver Honda with a YY sticker and MD plates. Hope it was a teacher.

Or a grand parent . Or a divorced parent. Seriously, this utterly made up problem by a bunch of right wing trolls is creating bullshit witch hunts . Get a life.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Today I was driving behind a silver Honda with a YY sticker and MD plates. Hope it was a teacher.

Or a grand parent . Or a divorced parent. Seriously, this utterly made up problem by a bunch of right wing trolls is creating bullshit witch hunts . Get a life.

I am seriously considering getting a Bethesda or potomoc school bumper sticker for my DC plated car just to troll losers like you. Any suggestions for what school I should pick?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Today I was driving behind a silver Honda with a YY sticker and MD plates. Hope it was a teacher.

Or a grand parent . Or a divorced parent. Seriously, this utterly made up problem by a bunch of right wing trolls is creating bullshit witch hunts . Get a life.

I am seriously considering getting a Bethesda or potomoc school bumper sticker for my DC plated car just to troll losers like you. Any suggestions for what school I should pick?

Not Bethesda but a TJ sticker might be enrage the 1mil fairfax residents all equally being they are all sort of middle class right wing tolls

[Anonymous]

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In what alternate universe are you 7 miles from DC while living in Fairfax County?

NP. I think the alternate universe is yours. The FFX County line meets the District's at the Potomac River. It's less than half a mile from Chain Bridge. All of McLean and parts of Dunn Loring and Vienna are within seven miles of DC, sorry.

+1. Let me guess-- you learned geography and map skills in DCPS?

[Anonymous]

Catching Residency cheats in DCPS is a perfect example of Sayre's law in action.

If DCPS parents spent a fraction of the time and energy they spend trying to catch "residency cheats" being dropped of by grandma or the nanny on brainstorming ways to improve DCPS, they might have schools worth sneaking into by 2030.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Catching Residency cheats in DCPS is a perfect example of Sayre's law in action.

If DCPS parents spent a fraction of the time and energy they spend trying to catch "residency cheats" being dropped of by grandma or the nanny on brainstorming ways to improve DCPS, they might have schools worth sneaking into by 2030.

Don't be ridiculous. Obviously, no one spends any time trying to catch residency cheats.

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Anonymous wrote:Catching Residency cheats in DCPS is a perfect example of Sayre's law in action.

If DCPS parents spent a fraction of the time and energy they spend trying to catch "residency cheats" being dropped of by grandma or the nanny on brainstorming ways to improve DCPS, they might have schools worth sneaking into by 2030.

Don't be ridiculous. Obviously, no one spends any time trying to catch residency cheats.

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not. But 70 pages in, there's a ton of brain cells related to this issue: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/568109.page

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Catching Residency cheats in DCPS is a perfect example of Sayre's law in action.

If DCPS parents spent a fraction of the time and energy they spend trying to catch "residency cheats" being dropped of by grandma or the nanny on brainstorming ways to improve DCPS, they might have schools worth sneaking into by 2030.

Don't be ridiculous. Obviously, no one spends any time trying to catch residency cheats.

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not. But 70 pages in, there's a ton of brain cells related to this issue: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/568109.page

Discussing it on DCUM is not spending time or energy to trying to catch anyone. Hopefully they realize that.

[Anonymous]

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In what alternate universe are you 7 miles from DC while living in Fairfax County?

NP. I think the alternate universe is yours. The FFX County line meets the District's at the Potomac River. It's less than half a mile from Chain Bridge. All of McLean and parts of Dunn Loring and Vienna are within seven miles of DC, sorry.

I mean that's hours away in traffic. Plus if you don't get into TJ, you're stuck in a classroom full of losers. No thanks.