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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the city was smart, they could also put in the manual that these families should pay back tuition for sending their kid to JR (OOB DC, MD, or VA resident) and fined x amount of money for residency fraud.

Rules are rules and there should be consequences if you break them.  [/quote]

You can be fined for residency fraud. It happens. But it doesn't include being OOB because that's not how the law is written. It would have to be changed but I can't imagine that's anyone's priority. [/quote]

You don’t need a law. Put in the handbook the above for OOB DC residents and MD and VA residents. 
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"Chapter 3. Residency Requirement and Nonresident Tuition" of the DC code lays out requirements and penalties in great detail. The government can't just make up new reasons to fine you because they say so. You actually do have to change the law. [/quote]

You are quoting residency fraud for out of the city.

I think there is also boundary fraud [/quote]

Where does the phrase "boundary fraud" appear in the code? [/quote]

It’s not in the code above but see below what you are certifying when you sign

“I understand that if I provide false information or documentation, I can be referred to DC Office of the Inspector General for criminal prosecution or to the DC Office of the Attorney General for prosecution under the False Claims Act and under DC Code § 38-312 which provides that any person who knowingly supplies false information to a public official in connection with student residency verification shall be subject to payment of a fine of not more than $2,000 or imprisonment for not more than 90 days, but not both a fine and imprisonment.” [/quote]

Is it really worth risking having a criminal record and/or losing your job if you have security clearance just to go to any DC public school, none of which are even that good. Seriously [/quote]

I think the people who do this assume they'd never push it that hard, and are probably right -- DC looks the other way on a lot of stuff and this is one of them.

For me, though, I just think it's unfair to other families and would be so embarrassed if other families at our school or own our neighborhood found out we did that. I mean, you also have the option of moving, or doing the lottery, or going to your IB. So there is no reason you HAVE to commit boundary fraud, and to me it reads as "I just think I can do whatever I want." It just comes off as entitled, and probably contributes to problems like overcrowding at some schools (including JR), low IB enrollment at others, etc. So personally I can't imagine doing this or defending it, even though I'm sure it's not that hard to get away with.[/quote]

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