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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our home is located on Virginia Avenue (in DC). Apparently my K DC has said a few times that she lives in Virginia and I got a few subtle questions from parents about our address. I found it peculiar,  but didn't raise a flag until another mother whispered to me that there was some concerns about our residence "outside DC". I thought it was bizarre. Didn't know that parents mission was to "police" residence fraud using as informants kindergarten children. [/quote]

Look, it's a real problem across DC- and one that the city doesn't seem to have a solid answer to. It frustrates a lot of people that seats and funds are being allocated to people who don't pay DC taxes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-schools-insider/post/dc-tries-to-draw-line-on-school-residency-fraud/2011/10/07/gIQALxDRTL_blog.html

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/DC-Attorney-General-Suing-Two-Police-Officers-for-Claiming-False-DC-Residency-and-Sending-Their-Children-to-School-For-Free-307056701.html[/quote]

That first link is pretty weak, it's from 2011.  I'm not excusing the cheaters, but people angrily hunting children are really scary.  You are beyond tea, yoga, and therapy.  [/quote]

It's interesting that when some other noteworthy story has come out -- the elementary school kid who brought coke to school in a backpack, the mother who sued her son's DC charter school in PG circuit court, the Wilson football team cut from a championship -- that students have fraudulently lived in Maryland.  Those are the incidents that get press attention, but these are some of the more flagrant incidents.  It makes one wonder about all the other cases of fraud that seldom if ever come to light because the family flies under the radar scope and the student doesn't (otherwise) get into serious trouble.   It's so pervasive that even DC police officers have been found to engage in DCPS residency fraud.[/quote]

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