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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOling that there are 12 pages of people defending cheaters![/quote]

Not really. There are 12 pages of people talking about residency cheating. [b]Some people are wondering how the OP knows so much about this family. [/b]Some are talking about the many people at their school that they know to be cheating. One person is counting Maryland plates at Stuart-Hobson. My guess is that none of the people who are enraged about cheating and claim to know cheaters have actually reported those people.

What's worse - someone who suggests that people who are perceived to be cheating might actually not be or people who are certain that a person is cheating and doesn't report them?[/quote]

But why wonder? Who cares how the OP knows what she knows. Suspecting someone of fraud is enough to report them. If they are not guilty of fraud, what's the harm? None! As soon as someone says "but what if..." they are searching for excuses why the OP shouldn't report this, i.e. defending a potential cheater. That's what's so insane about all this. People making excuses for why the potential cheater isn't a cheater and why op shouldn't report it. That's just stupid![/quote]

You know what else is "just stupid!"? The original post of this thread. OP states that there is a family that is lying, claiming to live somewhere they don't live and that an internet search indicates that those people live elsewhere in DC/MD and then, despite the continual chatter that this topic generates every 5 minutes, she says "What to do?" as though she was not aware that what you do is call the hotline, which can be found pretty easily.

I wonder how the OP knows because I am actually one of those cases in which people seeing me dropping DD off at school might suspect me of being a cheater. Her dad and I are divorced and legally, we share custody 50/50. We use his address as her official address (which is perfectly legal), and occasionally I drop her off at her DCPS in a car that has Maryland plates (thanks, carpool!). So my reason for wondering how the OP knows is to see if she's just assuming that the family in question is cheating based on criteria that could have other explanations. [/quote]

So you're claiming Dad in DC as the child's primary address, while you have primary custody in MD?[/quote]

We both live in DC. We have joint custody. Per my lawyer, neither of us has "primary" custody. She spends exactly the same amount of time at his house as she does at mine. He owns, I rent, we picked his address as the primary one to use. I occasionally carpool with a colleague who drives in from Maryland. After she drops her kid off, my kid gets in her kid's seat and we take her to school. Thus, you have a parent who does not live at the address on file using a car with Maryland plates to drop off a child at a DCPS where the child claimed in bounds preference at that school.

And my point was not that everyone is honest because I am. My point is that many of the people who are bent out of shape about residency cheating would see me dropping off my daughter this morning and wonder if I'd lied about where I lived to get her a place in school. I wasn't discouraging the OP from reporting it, which she apparently plans to do. If the residency office wants to look at our divorce agreement, our housing paperwork and whatever else, they're welcome to do so. [/quote]

This would be a simple matter to dispose of.  But legitimate arrangements should not obscure the fact that there are kids from out of the District who are fraudulently enrolled in DCPS, nor discourage people from flagging cases for DCPS to look into.[/quote]

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