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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Report it to the school. They are the ones that assess the enrollment paperwork.

(and yes it is fraud - it’s lying about your address to get a government benefit.) [/quote]

I think many here are forgetting that fraud is fraud. Nobody is above the law, except for one person, maybe.[/quote]

DC doesn't consider which school you go to to be a "government benefit", they consider the benefit to be any DC public or charter school. I understand you have a different legal theory. Cool. But it's not up to you. [/quote]

It’s literally fraud to write down false information to gain a benefit (yes it is a benefit). But go ahead and try it and also tell the school what you are doing. [/quote]

It's not up to you whether going to one school in DC over another counts as a benefit, it's up to DC. And we know what happens if families get caught -- [b]they get kicked out.[/b][/quote]

What evidence can you provide that boundary cheaters with the paperwork to claim residency get kicked out? You can't provide the evidence because this isn't  happening. You're conflating residency fraud on the part of non-DC residents (living in MD or VA) who aren't paying DC taxes (so no withholding) with DC residents who enroll as in-boundary residents when they may not live in-boundary but can provide paperwork showing that they do. The former can and do sometimes get kicked out; the latter don't, no matter who mayb be calling the hotline.

Ten or 15 years ago, before there were half a dozen decent Ward 6 DCPS elementary schools, it wasn't uncommon for parents with a couple houses in the neighborhood to use one they no longer lived in for residency for Maury, Watkins or Brent, and, later on, Ludlow. The place they used for residency was generally their small starter house, rented out or let relatives stay in later on. As far as I know after 30 years in Ward 6, nobody got kicked out for that. And there have always been a tiny number of CH families, I'm guessing two dozen, renting small places in Upper NW to access J-R. In the grand scheme of things, DCPS still doesn't put resources into stamping out boundary fraud because it's a small, cheap and politically fraught problem for them, with lots of AA students shuffled between relatives' places across school boundaries.  [/quote]

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