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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like the WAMU reporter should have spoken to parents who are being investigated, to learn about how the process is working.

When we were investigated a couple years back (while divorcing), we were given the name of the fellow parent who'd complained.  The parent had written a letter to the investigator's office, which we were shown. We were asked if we thought the issue was "personal." We were required to produce several years of certified tax returns, plus other residency documents DCPS had not asked for before. We were also asked to sign a form agreeing to a home visit (which never took place). A letter reporting the result (cleared) was sent to our principal.

As for the parent who tried to get our children thrown out of teh school, well, she always gets a big hello and smiles from me when I bump into her.[/quote]

Re-read those stats: only 19 cases of the 269 tips have been officially closed. Of the 19 closed cases, 6 were found to be non-residents (just under one-third).

That means OSSE is sitting on a metric f#ckton of non-investigated tips and perhaps 30% are legit cases of residency fraud. That's higher than I imagined.[/quote]

I don't think your conclusion is necessarily correct.  I was thinking the opposite - that out of 269 tips, only 19 seemed legitimate enough to investigate fully, and 6 of those were nonresidents.  Some tips are likely not worth investigating - OP is a case in point. Do you really think OSSE can do anything with a "tip" saying "I saw a car with Maryland plates dropping  a child off this morning?"  It seems likely that only a small fraction of tips are actually worth investigating.  [/quote]

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