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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother lives WOTP and the long term goal is to buy her house from her,  but she is not ready to move yet and neither are we.

So my question is what is legal? My choices are 1. do nothing - Stay at our IB school until we actually move (prob not for 3-5 years) and then just transfer DD in at 2nd or 3rd once we actually move OR  2. I'm wondering if it's legal to rent a room from her for next years lottery when DD will be going into K (so she can start off with the class she will eventually be in anyway) or similarly buy the house from her so we legally own it and pay taxes but then rent it back to her until we are all ready to make moves?  [/quote]

Go ahead and cheat. But you should probably be aware that this issue has been getting a lot of attention lately, and a lot of people are really sick and tired of Marylanders and Virginians ripping off the system. [b]So you're a lot more likely to get reported for cheating by one of your child's parents. [/b]And DC politicians are coming under a lot more pressure to crack down on cheaters because, again, their constituents are just really sick and tired of this (have you noticed the big signs on Metro buses now, urging the public to turn in residency cheaters?). And if you get caught, it can ugly -- owing half-a-million-dollars ugly. Would you get away with it? Yeah, probably. But the odds aren't quite as in favor of you as they used to be. [/quote]

That is, one of your child's classmate's parents. [/quote]

That would give me no pause at all. [/quote]

Maybe you're politically tone deaf. The politics of this issue are clearly changing. There is no question that it is becoming increasingly risky to cheat. [/quote]

It all depends on what you're doing to "cheat" on residency.  If you own a residential property you use for IB residency, and don't rent it out formally, pretty clearly DCPS doesn't care about your particular variant of "cheating" at this point in time.  Not sure if they care about what OP's proposing.  They obviously do care a lot more about non-DC residents who don't file DC taxes using DC schools than they did even a few years ago.  No question.[/quote]

True, but I think you're a fool to think that the DC AG doesn't care about fraud on enrollment paperwork.  Lying about your child's domicile is fraudulently completing the paperwork. There may not be the same remedies as for not even residing in DC, but I would certainly not be sanguine about it.  [/quote]

The DC AG has only solicited tips from the public re residency fraud.

Boundary fraud is DCPS’ responsibility to police and enforce. If DCPS were to refer cases to the DCAG then perhaps he would bring a case. So far no interest. [/quote]

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