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NP here, well hear what you want PP, but please be clear: under the current rules, if another parent or staff member at the school has enough information to show that the residence that the cheating parent used as their primary address is not in fact their primary address, there are MANY OF US (and the number grows greater the more the competition for seats increases) that have no problem raising a big stink with the school and with OSSE about it.  Charter or DCPS, if a family clearly does not live at the residence they got their IB preference through, and we find out about it, we will make a very public outcry about it.  And you DO risk your kid being kicked out.

Maybe the rules aren't as tight as they could be, but the parent such as OP or anyone else in this thread that used an address they don't live at and that clearly isn't their primary address to get IB preference KNOWS they are cheating.  You can be as wiggly and "Oh but the rules aren't totally clear" as you want; just know that at the schools where anyone bothers to do this, parents and staff are getting increasingly vigilant and outspoken about calling out cheaters.  You don't hear about some of them here because once a family has been outed and has to leave (whether immediately or by the end of the school year), it usually happens pretty quietly at that stage.  But it DOES happen.

You know you're cheating, and if you're at a popular school, the odds are increasing that you'll get called out.  And for the schools that want to pursue it, they have ways of proving that a residence is not the student's primary residence.[/quote]

Sure, now please explain how parents and staff could effectively "out" a cheater when a parent has already met DCPS' requirements for providing residency, and enrolling a child at a school, by providing a pay stub showing DC withholding, and some combination of a valid lease, DC ID, and a utilities bill in a parent's name.

I believe that parents and staff might be able to persuade DCPS higher-ups to launch an investigation in the hopes of outing a cheater, but to my knowledge it's up to Central Administration to "call out" cheaters, and up to principals to kick them out after getting the green light from higher ups.  The process takes months, no immediately involved, and no big stink or public outcry able to determine outcomes.

A neighbor was investigated by DCPS for alleged cheating (at Maury Elementary on the Hill) last year.  I'm told that the investigation took 5 minutes - the investigator met the parents at the home, saw the kid's toys and clothes in her room, left, wrote a brief report attesting to the validity of the residency, end of story.

The "primary address" requirement is made up - there's no such legal term, or designation used in DCPS residency speak.   
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