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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Context - I have 2 kids at different EOTP schools and live near a third school. At all of these schools, probably a third to half of the license plates every day are from MD and some VA.

I certainly know families who have one parent in MD and one in DC (and I'm sure there are all sorts of different guardianship arrangements), so that's obviously not residency fraud. But is that THIS common? Wouldn't it be difficult to register without showing this proof of residency? I'm just genuinely curious; I know this was a big issue a few years ago but haven't heard as much about it lately. [/quote]

It's school-by-school, I think.  Some schools look the other way and/or don't really investigate.  Others try to keep everything above board.

My DD went to a city-wide DCPS for PK3 and it was probably 40% MD kids.  Really blatant, too, like I asked a teacher if I could get a mom's number to set up a playdate with a kid she couldn't stop talking about and the answer was "they live out in Upper Marlboro, you probably can't have a playdate with them."  So the teacher knows, and doesn't care, and assumes I don't either.  Maybe 1 in 20 cars at drop off had DC plates (but some kids walked, so that's not a direct correlation to the percentages of students).  I think the school didn't care because it was underenrolled and more bodies = more funding.

Now we're at a school that's very nearly on the border of MD and the number of MD plates is a fraction of the previous school - I'm sure that part of this is that the school has a catchment area so the school fills up with actual residents first, but I also think they actually require the paperwork and cross their t's and dot their i's.[/quote]

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