First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since this thread started, there're substantially less Md. and Va. cars outside of Amidon-Bowen. And yes, it's one of the lowest performing Title 1 schools in DC with free food and extra day daycare; this isn't about quality academics. The naysayers on this thread are probably do-nothing principals, Md. residents, and simply ignorant trolls.

Title 1 schools like Amidon-Bowen are going to have a disproportionate number of children who are homeless and living doubled up with family in MD, or in shelters in MD, or who are placed in foster homes in MD. Kids in each of those circumstances are entitled to stay in their original school.

is that really likely when more than 80% of the students claim in bound status? I am more inclined to agree with the "grandmas address" poster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And there's at least one mean spirited asshole who wants to make the lives of those foster kids, and their caregivers, more difficult.

Sela Maryland plates though?/I guess that's fine.

Is not Sela located near the MOCO line?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And there's at least one mean spirited asshole who wants to make the lives of those foster kids, and their caregivers, more difficult.

Sela Maryland plates though?/I guess that's fine.

So teaching foster kids to break the law is okay? Or if they aren't breaking the law, it's something cleared up in less time than your weird rants. I had to resubmit paperwork twice because I was flagged. It took maybe 5 minutes. Calm down.

DC Foster kids who are placed in homes in Maryland are still considered wards of DC. As such they have the right to attend DC public schools. They also get health insurance through the District.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And there's at least one mean spirited asshole who wants to make the lives of those foster kids, and their caregivers, more difficult.

Sela Maryland plates though?/I guess that's fine.

So teaching foster kids to break the law is okay? Or if they aren't breaking the law, it's something cleared up in less time than your weird rants. I had to resubmit paperwork twice because I was flagged. It took maybe 5 minutes. Calm down.

Are you as stupid as you pretend to be on DCUM. Under federal law, foster children are entitled, if not required, to attend their last home school. Or the school zoned for their last home address. If the child is a ward of the District of Columbia and was originally zoned for Amidon, Brent, or Janney, the child is allowed to attend said school even if the child is in a foster home located in Silver Spring, Alexandria, or Clinton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And there's at least one mean spirited asshole who wants to make the lives of those foster kids, and their caregivers, more difficult.

Sela Maryland plates though?/I guess that's fine.

So teaching foster kids to break the law is okay? Or if they aren't breaking the law, it's something cleared up in less time than your weird rants. I had to resubmit paperwork twice because I was flagged. It took maybe 5 minutes. Calm down.

Are you as stupid as you pretend to be on DCUM. Under federal law, foster children are entitled, if not required, to attend their last home school. Or the school zoned for their last home address. If the child is a ward of the District of Columbia and was originally zoned for Amidon, Brent, or Janney, the child is allowed to attend said school even if the child is in a foster home located in Silver Spring, Alexandria, or Clinton.

This explains some of the MD cars, although for bureaucratic reasons more DC kids are placed in DC rather than MD foster homes. However, the sheer volume of kids being dropped off in MD cars by people who appear to be a parent suggests that the residency fraud problem is pretty substantial. And it seems that when a a number of cases come to light in the press-- the kid who brought the parents' coke to school, the mom who sued her son's DC charter (in PG court!), the Wilson kids ruled ineligible to play football, it turns out that the kids actually lived in MD. DC needs to get a handle on it, because other DC kids are losing out and Washington's tax payers are being fleeced!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since this thread started, there're substantially less Md. and Va. cars outside of Amidon-Bowen. And yes, it's one of the lowest performing Title 1 schools in DC with free food and extra day daycare; this isn't about quality academics. The naysayers on this thread are probably do-nothing principals, Md. residents, and simply ignorant trolls.

Title 1 schools like Amidon-Bowen are going to have a disproportionate number of children who are homeless and living doubled up with family in MD, or in shelters in MD, or who are placed in foster homes in MD. Kids in each of those circumstances are entitled to stay in their original school.

is that really likely when more than 80% of the students claim in bound status? I am more inclined to agree with the "grandmas address" poster.

Yup, this is exactly what it is. The parents will even route all their mail through grandma's (or a cheap condo that they've owned for a long time). Some will even pay DC taxes, rather than MD or VA taxes, just to be sure.

Apparently, this type of stuff in typical in the area. My GF still has her legal address at her mother's house in a tony neighborhood of Bethesda, even though she's lived in the District for the last 5 years. When you have 3 entities' borders within a 5 mile radius, those lines become fungible.

[Anonymous]

Sela is right by the MD county line. However the Hebrew bumper sticker and the type of car did not suggest that the driver was coming from "that" part of Maryland.

Look, I don't care. I am only bringing it up again because I'm so tired of hearing the pg county meme. I'm fairly sure there's a reasonable explanation for that car, and for most of the others you've seen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And there's at least one mean spirited asshole who wants to make the lives of those foster kids, and their caregivers, more difficult.

Sela Maryland plates though?/I guess that's fine.

So teaching foster kids to break the law is okay? Or if they aren't breaking the law, it's something cleared up in less time than your weird rants. I had to resubmit paperwork twice because I was flagged. It took maybe 5 minutes. Calm down.

No, we shouldn't teach foster kids to break the law. Since the law says that DC foster kids should attend school in DC, even if they stay in MD, and that they should if at all possible attend the school they attended when they were living with parents, we should respect that law.

[Anonymous]

Poster who saw the stokes pta sticker on the car with MD plates here-

I strongly doubt that those were foster kids. They were residency cheaters. I'm ashamed of the posters who keep trying to come up with very unlikely scenarios to somehow explain away the obvious. Stokes is a good school and a lot of kids want to go there. I photographed the car and passed the photo on to OSSE who I am sure will do nothing. This is shameful.

And before you flame me, I'm not white, not rich, and i got my kids into our #1 pick school. I just worry more about DC kids who want a seat at some of our excellent charter schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And there's at least one mean spirited asshole who wants to make the lives of those foster kids, and their caregivers, more difficult.

Sela Maryland plates though?/I guess that's fine.

So teaching foster kids to break the law is okay? Or if they aren't breaking the law, it's something cleared up in less time than your weird rants. I had to resubmit paperwork twice because I was flagged. It took maybe 5 minutes. Calm down.

No, we shouldn't teach foster kids to break the law. Since the law says that DC foster kids should attend school in DC, even if they stay in MD, and that they should if at all possible attend the school they attended when they were living with parents, we should respect that law.

Thanks for letting everyone know the law. I didn't know the foster law because my family takes care of our own kids and we are too poor to foster another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And there's at least one mean spirited asshole who wants to make the lives of those foster kids, and their caregivers, more difficult.

Sela Maryland plates though?/I guess that's fine.

So teaching foster kids to break the law is okay? Or if they aren't breaking the law, it's something cleared up in less time than your weird rants. I had to resubmit paperwork twice because I was flagged. It took maybe 5 minutes. Calm down.

Are you as stupid as you pretend to be on DCUM. Under federal law, foster children are entitled, if not required, to attend their last home school. Or the school zoned for their last home address. If the child is a ward of the District of Columbia and was originally zoned for Amidon, Brent, or Janney, the child is allowed to attend said school even if the child is in a foster home located in Silver Spring, Alexandria, or Clinton.

This explains some of the MD cars, although for bureaucratic reasons more DC kids are placed in DC rather than MD foster homes. However, the sheer volume of kids being dropped off in MD cars by people who appear to be a parent suggests that the residency fraud problem is pretty substantial. And it seems that when a a number of cases come to light in the press-- the kid who brought the parents' coke to school, the mom who sued her son's DC charter (in PG court!), the Wilson kids ruled ineligible to play football, it turns out that the kids actually lived in MD. DC needs to get a handle on it, because other DC kids are losing out and Washington's tax payers are being fleeced!

That's not true. I've been through the process, and as a DC resident they were extremely happy to see me. DC can not get enough people in DC to volunteer and become foster parents. The DC children are primarily placed in MC and PG counties. I wish more DC people would become foster parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sela is right by the MD county line. However the Hebrew bumper sticker and the type of car did not suggest that the driver was coming from "that" part of Maryland.

Look, I don't care. I am only bringing it up again because I'm so tired of hearing the pg county meme. I'm fairly sure there's a reasonable explanation for that car, and for most of the others you've seen.

D I they have special cars in Takoma Park? What kind of cars do they drive in TP that are not driven elsewhere?

[Anonymous]

I wasn't aware that takoma park was a hotbed of residency cheats.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone notice all of the MD cars parking for Edfest? The vast majority of the cars had MD plates, a couple VA, and a few DC plates. I know some people are probably contemplating a move to DC but there is no way everyone is moving...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sela is right by the MD county line. However the Hebrew bumper sticker and the type of car did not suggest that the driver was coming from "that" part of Maryland.

Look, I don't care. I am only bringing it up again because I'm so tired of hearing the pg county meme. I'm fairly sure there's a reasonable explanation for that car, and for most of the others you've seen.

D I they have special cars in Takoma Park? What kind of cars do they drive in TP that are not driven elsewhere?

1980's Volvo station wagon, Volkswagen microbus. Prius for the upscale set.