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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been living in the DC area for decades and know DC, MoCo, Howard and Fairfax public schools.

DCPS is an academic disaster compared to MCPS and FCPS (and some smaller, more homogeneous public school systems further out). Some charter schools are just OK, but none of them hold a candle to the best MCPS and FCPS school clusters.

Very few families are in such logistical straights as to want to place their kids in DCPS if they live in MD or VA.

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If you've lived in DC for decades you know that residency fraud has been an issue. Lots of MD folks wanting to take advantage of free PK3 & PK4. Also convenience and being able to use grandma (who still lives in DC) for childcare. Close-in PG County schools are just okay.[/quote]

PP you replied to. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm saying it's not as dire as some would make it out to be.

I also have a theory on the marked decrease in residency fraud threads on DCUM: the average age of posters have gone up with time, so maybe in the past, there was a perfect storm of more posters with younger kids, who were noticing potential residential fraud at their DCPS schools, by families with preschool aged kids who then continued on to DCPS elementaries. But since DCPS gets worse the higher you go, middle school is a time of attrition to private or better suburban schools (and parents start to realize that MD or VA residency guarantees in-state tuition at UMD, UVA, etc), and kids become self-sufficient enough to not need adult supervision after school. So now that a plurality of DCUM posters are older, their kids have passed the age where they would notice such residential fraud.

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All of this.

I have no special knowledge, but I think the city did a big data match a few years ago and that's why so many city employees were caught doing residency fraud. And that may have made people more cautious about doing it.

I also think that, aside from preschool, there are certainly DC residents sneaking into Maryland schools too. If we had to pay Maryland for that, and Maryland had to pay us for their residents, I'm not sure which state would come out ahead. This isn't necessarily the cost savings people think it is. [/quote]

What you may fail to understand it that if Marylanders cheat DC schools, then that stops the poorer DC residents from any legal opportunity to go to a higher performing school. It’s not just money, it’s a moral failing on those families parts. And I can only imagine what it does to raise a child who knows they are cheating and is taught the rules don’t apply to them. It’s so gross.[/quote]

No, I understand, but I think in actuality the number of MD residents at higher-performing schools and schools that don't take all applicants isn't that big. It's amazing how people will sneak into low performing schools but I suppose it's for logistical or family reasons. And again, the same logic applies to DC folks sneaking into MD schools.[/quote]

A coworker's daughter + kids live in Laurel. The children go to KIPP (using my coworker's address). Why? First, for the free prek 3 and 4. Plus, she works in DC and her mom lives in DC and can help with pick up. The school day is longer and before/aftercare is also much cheaper. [/quote]

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