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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not in the Janney boundary and my kids are beyond primary school grades.  However I hear that there are several families gaming the system, using addresses for out of boundary friends, etc… The whole Janney/Deal/Wilson area needs to ensure that every single enrolled student actually resides in the address on their forms.  [/quote]

We were actually invited to do this by Janney parents (relatives) who live in boundary and have 2 kids there.  Father is a lawyer.  I am a lawyer and declined their attempt to be helpful.  It's fraud, and I could lose a bar license over it if caught.

I thought it was really weird, but this demonstrates how accepted it was to do this.

We moved to MoCo after preK because our DCPS school was not great.

In MoCo, if you move after the school year starts, you can finish out the year, but after that you have to go to the school for the neighborhood you moved to.   So, there's no incentive to move to a neighborhood with better schools thinking you will be able to stay.

There is also no free preK in MoCo unless you qualify on as low income.  The fact that DCPS offers free preK and MoCo doesn't shifts the calculus and encourages even reasonably well off parents to stay in DC (usually in upper NW).  If you have free preK, you are potentially saving 15k-20K a year per child.  That's a significant chunk of change.  If the schools are even marginally comparable, most parents will opt to stay in the decent upper NW DCPS to save $60K (3 kids)  and consider moving later if necessary.

If Janney cut preK it would naturally winnow down the number of families in boundary.  Faced with the comparison on the basis of schools offerings alone, many more families would chose MCPS. [/quote]

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