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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For some, it’s cheaper and easier to rent an apartment or a room somewhere in district for the one year.  The kid lives in it with whatever family member they want M-F.  It would be the primary residence.  [/quote]

There was a very famous--and well respected football player--who did that for his son about twenty years ago.  It didn't turn out well.[/quote]

I was suggesting they actually move there.  Not rent just for the address.  That would be illegal.  [/quote]

Agree that would be illegal.

After giving this more thought and perusing the responses here, I'm beginning to think that FCPS is purposely hiding these numbers. I also wonder if the number of out of county students (excluding those at TJ) is insignificant (in which case it is no big deal to show those numbers) and how many are paying tuition. Or, maybe they are significant enough to affect boundary decisions.

-OP[/quote]

It’s the former. I’ve been a school-based administrator for over 15 years. I’ve never known anyone to pay out of county tuition. I have told parents that they will be charged this because we have discovered that they live out of county and we have proof (through a residency investigation). They withdraw. [/quote]

Thank you. Are most of these discovered toward the beginning of the year? Is this a yearly occurrence or once in a blue moon? Besides my friend, the only other case I personally know of involved a ES student who unknowingly outted herself while I was waiting in the office to take my kid to a doctor appointment. The girl was explaining why she was tardy and it traffic on 495 was backed up on her way to school. We are in western Fairfax far from 495. The Secretary asked where the girl lived and it was somewhere up 95 north of the beltway. I don’t remember specifically where any more. It was horrible to watch/hear. [/quote]

Sometimes it is a separation and one parent still lives in the district but the student commutes on some days from the other parents house. [/quote]

I knew this to happen some years ago.  They went back and forth.  Dad lived in Loudoun, but I'm pretty sure it was legal.  They had lived with mom and stepdad and then decided to split time.   But, I think most was with mom in Fairfax.  I think they did this for four years or so.  Mom told me when they started it that she did not expect it would continue----but it did.[/quote]

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