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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um, OP, you seem like a jerk.[/quote]

Sure. To offer another perspective, we were a family that was unable to get in anywhere off of the lottery, and ended up having to move, to leave a neighborhood we loved and were heavily invested into and a home that we had literally bought only a couple of years earlier based on the location of three very good neighborhood schools that at the time had neighborhood preference and then changed to city wide lottery. Our one remaining inbound school was going to be doing huge renovations and was having major administrative upheaval, was plagued by residency fraud, and seemed too unstable to make an investment in at that point.

So while I understand the myriad reasons that residency fraud exists and is not cracked down on (because I really had to dig deep to make my peace with it and accept that these children are hopefully benefiting from more than just their parent's commute convenience) it was a cause of agony for us and had huge financial ramifications. We accept that we took an educated risk and lost. But system wide there are substantial, soft costs related to res fraud in the community that are not accounted for. [/quote]

How ... is residency fraud the cause of your issues? You had a neighborhood school you chose not to attend.  If you were in "agony" because you believed that there were kids from a different district attending your school ...so much so that you had to move ... that's truly on you.  [/quote]

To the PP who was unable to get anywhere off the lottery and ended up having to move from the Hill, why didn't you simply buy, or rent, IB for a stable school with a bright future, say Ludlow or Brent, in the first instance, or the second?  Maury and Watkins also seem to work for most parents, despite their "huge renovations."  Those project never last more than a year and a half, with the kids being taught in very nice, roomy classroom trailers in the interim.

To the rest of you, why fuss about residency fraud when you are not in command of all the facts?  Some of the families allegedly committing residency fraud get through investigations for whatever reasons.  If you feel the need to report somebody, go for it, but the odds are against the kid being kicked out of your school.  For one thing, the wway DCPS and OSSE write the residency rules isn't the way you want them to read.  In some upscale school districts, school system leaders spell out requirements that aren't on the books here in DC, like the kid needs to sleep at the residence used for registration at least 50% of the nights in a given school year.   It's just not easy for OSSE to crack down on individual cheating families with the wimpy rules they've got to work with.

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