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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To all -- when we registered our DCs in FFX schools last year, we had to bring their birth certificates.  I assumed that this document requirement meant that only US citizens could attend the public schools, or if they had foreign birth certificates they had to show resident status.

How would illegal residents be allowed to enroll in FCPS?  Any one know?[/quote]

You have to bring a birth certificate or affidavit as to date of birth when you register.  They are checking for age, not citizenship or immigration status.  FCPS cannot turn away children who are not here legally.  There is specific Supreme Court precedent to this effect which binds public school systems. [/quote]

If this requirement is indeed in effect for registration in the Fairfax County public schools it could have the (unintended) consequence of discouraging illegal immigrants from enrolling their children in school, and thus have the effect of creating [i]de facto[/i] barriers to the enrollment of these children in public schools.

First, because illegal immigrants may equate/associate having to show a birth certificate with having to demonstrate legal status (like the non-immigrant poster did).

Second, because immigrants may not have ready access to the birth certificates of their children.

Also, because illegal immigrants may not understand what an affidavit (legal document) is, nor have access to someone who can explain this to them.

Again, I believe that this birth certificate or affidavit requirement, though ostensibly to demonstrate age, may also present an unintended obstacle to illegal immigrant children attending the public schools.

This would suggest, as a previous poster said, that most of the Hispanic/Latino children in FCPS are U.S. citizens, born here (even if their parents were not).[/quote]

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