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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s fraud. I work in MCPS and we’ve caught people doing this and kicked the kid out of the school mid year. Do you want to run that risk?[/quote]

How often do you catch people?  Very very rare to get caught.  Families have done this for years without consequence.

MCPS does not have the resources or the ability to enforce residency requirements.[/quote]

Actually if you read today's WaPo-we have a whole lot of people working on this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/stop-enrollment-fraud-dc-school-officials-are-often-the-ones-committing-it/2018/04/16/03b816c0-3ce7-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.31ab34d29013
[quote]In neighboring Montgomery County, Md., where the public school system has almost twice as many students as the District, a spokesman said 52 employees spend at least part of their time on residency investigations. Last fiscal year, the system investigated 225 residency claims and found 135 of those families lived outside the county.
In Virginia’s Fairfax County, the school district’s central office employs 15 attendance officers whose duties include investigating residency fraud. A spokesman said fewer than 100 students were found to be living outside Fairfax County each year for the past eight years.

The District currently has a single investigator responsible for all residency fraud cases.

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52 people devoted to residency cheating with 225 cases a year?   Would be nice to have some of those central office staff dedicated to actually working directly with our students.[/quote]

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