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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The one case I know of was basically Mom moved out to VA and wanted daughter to finish high school in DC where she had been attending.  So she puts grandma on the residency documents.

Two things here, neither of which make this easier.

1.  Wouldn't you want your kid to be able to finish with their school community?    Things like this generate sympathy.
2.  Let's be honest, the widespread broken or, to be less judgmental, at least multi-generational/matrilineal/typically fatherless family and housing structure of DC families makes people not want too challenge kids' claims that they live with a grandmother or other female relative in DC even of the face of other evidence or complex custody/care situations.  And DC in fact has a lot of people in tough situations, so making judgment calls on residency in these kinds of family housing setups is likely to get administrators burned sometimes and they don't want that kind of trouble.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure that any DCPS HS principal would allow a long-time student whose family moved to VA to option of staying to graduate with his/her friends.  That mom probably didn't cheat in order to keep the child at the school.  She cheated to avoid paying 12K per year in non-resident tuition.

That said, I'm a DC resident, and I don't blame her.  12K a year is a lot of money just to have your kid finish with his/her friends.

It seems particularly unfair given that the mom was paying income and property taxes in VA and thus contributing to the funding of her local HS, where her DD/DS was entitled to a spot.

Thus, I think the real solution is for DC to enter into a compact with MD and VA whereby each jurisdiction transfers the per-student funding amount for its school system to the other school system whenever a resident student attends or is found to have attended a school in the other jurisdiction.  The parents would then be responsible only for the difference in the per-student funding amounts, if any.

Moving from DC to a close-in suburb does not have to result in the same sort of turmoil in kids lives as moving across the country.  They should be allowed to stay at their DCPS pr PCS without having their families face financial ruin.

Furthermore, given the apparent demand for schools located in DC from families that commute to the city, such a compact would likely result in a large increase in enrollment in DCPS and PCS schools.

Any thoughts?[/quote]

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