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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This back and forth is so tedious.

Yes, one Maryland plate does not automatically equal fraud. Yes, some families have unusual circumstances and no one should go around accusing individual families of residency fraud because you don't know what that specific family's situation is and it could in fact be a situation where one parent lives in MD and the other is IB, or the nanny has Maryland plates, or the family has Maryland plates even though they live in DC. Yes, all of this is true. No one is saying it cannot be true. I'm sure each of these situations happen sometimes in this city.

BUT ALSO

If you attend a school in DC and on a daily basis, more than half of the cars dropping of children at the school have Maryland plates, that raises a serious question that the school has a problem with RESIDENCY fraud (not boundary fraud, that's not what we're talking about here). It is improbably that fully half, or more, of the families at that school have one of the circumstances listed in this thread as valid reason why parents or caregivers could be dropping off with Maryland plates. Some, sure. Half or more? No, of course not. It's a massive red flag and raises all kinds of issues including the possible complicity of the administration or DCPS, as well as normalizing a fraudulent behavior that can ultimately really hurt schools by making it hard to create cohesive school communities with mutual respect and trust.

I don't even understand why this is ever controversial. Whenever this subject comes up on these boards, people are so weird about it and many people just flat out refuse to acknowledge that residency fraud is wrong or even that it would be a problem if it were occurring (much less admitting that there are signs that it's definitely occurring). Such a mystery to me. This is one of those weird DC things I will never get.[/quote]

What I don’t get is, don’t families get to know each other? Go to birthday parties? Talk about where exactly they live? Have play dates at each other’s houses? I know where most people live in my kids school in the classes they’re in. How are these folks hiding? It sounds hard.[/quote]

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