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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would just be VERY SURE the student has no ties to your district.  A friend of my childs got called on 4-5 times during a semester she was mainly staying with her grandmother because her mother was going through intensive chemo and as a family they all stayed at the childs grandparents house/mothers parents house.  They lived in the appropriate district but when people say the grandmas car all the time at pick up with the wrong license plate they would call.  I felt so bad for the mother and child because they were really trying to keep things low key and it turned into anything but. [/quote]

Thank you! We do realize that people do have cars registered in different states, right?  People don't always change things over (for their own personal reasons).  I know of several DC residents who have MD/VA registered cars, and MD residents who have DC registered cars.  We don't know 100% about people's personal lives and I don't think it's up to us to try to figure it out.[/quote]

See, that's not the fault of the people calling in to report. That's on whoever is running the office that handle residency fraud. One a report is made, it should be entered into some kind of database. When everything "checks out" they don't need to keep running checks (at least for that school year) because they would already have that family's info entered into the system. The people that are calling when they see those MD plates don't know that someone else has called.

I just find the argument "but you shouldn't call, because how can you KNOW?" ridiculous. Of course a person seeing these non-DC plates doesn't know. They are calling the hotline number so that appropriate investigation can take place in order to determine if there is residency fraud. Why are people so resistant to the idea of letting the system work the way it is supposed to work, to a quiet process for determining if there is a residency violation? If there isn't, then no harm, no foul. If there is, then it's dealt with as it should be because people who aren't residents should not be attending that school!

To be clear on this, I don't even live in DC (just lurk on this forum) so I don't have a dog in this fight but my sympathies are 100% with the folks who err on the side of caution and call if they see something that makes them think there is a possibility of residency fraud.

For the family that had the grandma doing pick up. I can sympathize with the desire to not make a huge public announcement, but I also think it would have made sense for them to inform the school about the pick up arrangements, and the reason for them. I think it would have been good for the student if the teachers and guidance counselor were aware of the tough times they were going through. School staff is there to help with emotional issues, not just academic.[/quote]

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