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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If someone asks you where you live, and you answer honestly and not coyly, that is where your child should go to school.  You and your child sleep in silver spring? your kid should go to school in silver spring.  it doesn't really matter if you pay property taxes on a house you own in DC.  You don't live there.  Maybe someone else lives there, and registers their kid at school in DC.  They are entitled to send their kid to DC public/charter school by virtue of their actually living in DC.  You are not entitled to send your kid to DC public/charter school because YOU DO NOT.  It isn't a question of where you pay property taxes, because you could, theoretically, pay property taxes in a dozen different school districts or more.  It is a question of where you LIVE.  Residency is a legal question that is rooted in where you intend to live, not where your tax dollars are.   If you move mid-year, you may be allowed to stay in your current school at the discretion of the school, but really, you should move your kid to the new school.  If you move before or at the beginning of the school year, your child should attend their new local school, or go to private school if that doesn't suit you.

I honestly don't see why people have such a problem with this.  If you lived in Manhattan and in the middle of the school year your family moved to Hoboken, NJ, you wouldn't ask if your kid could keep attending a PS in NYC.  [/quote]

I share custody with my ex, and my child divides his time between us roughly evenly, when he's not visiting his grandparents out of state (which he does for weeks on end).  So where does he live and where should he go to school?  How about wherever one of us has all the right residency documents, pays taxes and is comfortable with a public school.  You're certainly not the arbiter of residency rulings; you're just the guy or gal determined to bust families who, on the face of things, are committing residency fraud.  Parents need to comply with a particular school system's residency rules, not those set by a random poster on DCUM.  I honestly don't see why people have such a problem with others leading lives where a child's residency isn't as easy to pin down as in their own family.

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First of all, I am not a person who obsesses about this.  I think that the poster who followed someone home probably acted illegally in some way during that whole operation and was way out of line regrdless.  I have never reported someone for residency fraud, and couldn't even pick someone out at my kid's school who MIGHT be "cheating" the system.  Second, the circumstances you describe are COMPLETELY different than what the OP describes.  The OP said that his/her family is contemplating moving out of DC, and asked if she could use the address of a house that he/she will rent out to someone else, while actually LIVING in Maryland.  That's fraud.  In the situation you describe, you and your partner make a decision based on what's best for your kid and your lives. Your child is legally entitled to go to school at either address; the child of the OP is not.  You can't compare these two situations, because they aren't the same in any way.

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