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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the repercussions if MCPS finds out you've used a relative's address to get your child enrolled in a different MCPS school district? Does anyone have experience with this? And if so, what is the process that MCPS uses to discover and crack down on such situations?[/quote]

MCPS is overcrowded and poorly managed. If this is a close relative who has your back and will not snitch, you can pull it off. Granted, you have to produce documentation to prove you live there. I strongly considered doing that, but decided to forego MCPS altogether. If your local school is such sh1t that you wouldn't send your child there, why send them to any of the schools in MCPS?[/quote]

OP, do NOT follow this advice. MCPS has identified families not living in the proper school zone and has removed those students from their schools mid year.[/quote]

Do you actually know of someone where this happened?  Honestly?

Because we know of several families who have done this for years without ever getting caught.  It’s very difficult to prove that a kid lives at a certain address.  Especially when they sue a grandparent or other family member’s address.   [/quote]

I am not the PP but I do know someone personally that this happened to. They weren't even being shady, and the two schools in question were both East County. All it takes is one parent getting mad at your kid, or deciding the school is overcrowded, to make a report. [/quote]

If I knew someone doing this, I'd turn them in in a heartbeat.[/quote]

The issue is that even if you turned them in, or reported them, there isn’t much MCPS can do.

MCPS is short-staffed as it is.  It’s not like the school Secretary is going to visit this person’s address to verify that the kid lives there.  It’s very easy to have a bill or other piece of mail sent to an alternate address, if the school were to ask for proof.

And once you are in the system in ES as being at a certain (false) address, nobody ever requests proof of residency again.  You just automatically move up to the next MS/HS.

At least, that is what we have seen.  Families that use a grandparents address when the kids are young easily stay in that cluster even when they live elsewhere.  And there is no ‘Residency Fraud’ department in MCPS that does targeted enforcement.  [/quote]

If nothing else, those parents are teaching their kids that it's okay to lie and break the rules as long as they don't get caught. The kids also eventually will have to lie about where they live. They will learn to lie and cheat to get what they want. how is that better for the children?

If there is a true childcare hardship (e.g., grandparents caring for children after school), they can get a COSA. I know someone who got a COSA in Kindergarten simply because there was a younger child whose preschool was close to the COSA school, and mom said she couldn't both supervise the older child and drop the younger one off at preschool if the older child went to the home school. MCPS then allowed both children to go to the COSA school. I've known people who got a COSA because the home school was an old building and a new building would be better for the child's allergies.

Unless the COSA school is very overcrowded or you have no justification at all for the request it's not hard to get a COSA. Just follow the rules.[/quote]

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