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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.[/quote]

Ignore the PP, OP.

There is no rule that stipulates that lottery applicants be DC residents at the time of the lottery

You can enter the lottery using your MD address, but it is unlikely you will get spot.  Even if you do, there is a chance that the DC residents who apply to the school after the lottery cut-off will be admitted before you are.

Instead, enter the lottery using the address of your DC rental property.  If you get a spot, you will have to move back to DC before the cut-off date for residency verification.  If you decide not to move back into your rental property, you can use your new DC address to prove residency. [/quote]

You are utterly full of crap.  Every charter I applied to required that I provide a DC address AND proof of residency.  Bottom line OP is that DC public charter schools are for the children of DC residents.  Sorry.  If you don't like it, move to DC.[/quote]

Nonsense.  No charter that we've applied to required proof of residency to enter the lottery.  Proof of residency was only needed when we were offered a decided to accept a spot.[/quote]

Wow.  People like you amaze me.  Every single charter application requires you to sign something that basically says "I am telling the truth on this form" (I.e. "I swear that all the information on this form is true".  While it's true that at the time of application no school is going to show up at your DC addy to verify residency, you are swearing that the address you apply with IS WHERE YOU AND YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY LIVE.

What is so hard to grasp about that?  If you put down a DC rental address that you don't live at, you're lying.  And if the school finds out, you can I lose your child's spot.

I know the world is full of people cheating and lying, at all levels of society, but it still stuns me how cavalier people like PP are about lying on forms.  Don't be a residency cheater and end up at my charter... Because we DO pursue enforcement of residency rules against families who take spots from DC kids.[/quote]

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