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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could actually go to jail. Well, actually that only depends on how much melanin you have:

Tanya McDowell: https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/homeless-mum-given-five-years-in-prison-for-using-friends-address-to-enrol-son-in-school/

Kelley Williams-Bolar: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-mom-jailed-sending-kids-school-district/story?id=12763654

Yolanda Hill: https://www.usnews.com/education/articles/2009/03/02/schools-crack-down-on-boundary-hopping

just to name a few [/quote]

Those are all parents who didn't live in the district they were sending to, not parents who did live in the district but wanted a different school than the one their residence was assigned. There's a difference. Neither one is really right, but if you live in, say, PG or Frederick or DC and send to schools in MoCo, you are stealing services you haven't paid taxes for. If you are zoned to, say, Kemp Mill ES and decide to use an aunt's address which feeds to Luxmanor ES, you are breaking the rules but not actually stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of services, as you are a MoCo taxpayer anyway.

People do it, OP. If you don't live in Montgomery County I would not do this, because they will spend more effort to catch you and will go after you for money (or worse) if they find out. Switching schools within MCPS, well, I mean, it's dishonest and not right but I imagine it happens more than we know. Though if everyone did that, the system would be utter chaos. I guess it depends on whether you think you can keep up the fiction, how upset your kid will be if MCPS busts you and throws your kid out of their school mid-year, and whether you are comfortable looking in the mirror at a cheat and a liar. There's all kinds of rationalizations for it, some of which I do understand, but that is what it boils down to. [/quote]

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