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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi. I'm a DC resident, but I'm paying for private school because my in-boundary school is no good and I struck out in the DCPS lottery. I'm considering renting an apartment in-boundary of a good DCPS school, which would be less expensive than what I'm paying for private school, just so we have an in-boundary address. I wouldn't move in. Maybe I would sublet, or AirBNB, if allowed, to recoup some of the rent money, or just leave it empty. Is that sort of thing kosher? It's not like would be lying about my DC residency, I pay plenty of taxes to DC, my conscience is clean.[/quote] No. Residency means you live there. [b]DCPS can even do a home check to make sure you and your kids actually live there[/b] -- ie, eat and sleep there. Why have you decided your "conscience is clean" before knowing the rules?[/quote] Is there a source for this? Just curious, since I've never heard this before. I know of at least one family at my kid's school who is doing this (i.e., using the address of a property they own, but which only relatives occupy currently).[/quote] They do it at Shepherd Elementary.[/quote] That’s a joke. I know of at least 5 families that go here and live in MD so I know they don’t check for boundary fraud. [/quote] I've worked in DC social services. Residency fraud investigation results are not made public. These families may already have been investigated, including with home visits where an investigator was shown kids stuff in bedrooms. If all the residency docs are in order (especially tax returns) and the investigation reveals that the kids sleep in the address used for residency, at least some of the time, DCPS leaves the family alone. Parents who try to bust OOB or out-of-DC cheaters assume that if relatives seem to occupy an IB address, not the parents, no residency investigation has been done. Not a safe assumption. [/quote]
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