Reply to School Fraud- Cap Hill

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "School Fraud- Cap Hill"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has DC ever done an anonymous review of a school like Maury to see how big of problem residency fraud really is. More to just gain overall information, not to target individual families. I guess Duke Ellington had an audit a few years ago. But it is a different animal.

[b]I work in social services (in PG county), and there are a lot of very convoluted custody and living situations that most of the snowflakes on this site could not imagine in a million years.  I also agree that there are black PG county residents who feel entitled to send their kids to DC schools because family still live there and to them, it is "home".[/b]

School registrars aren't there to "investigate", they are just box checkers. How much do you want the district to spend on investigating residency fraud? Charter schools actively want as many kids as possible for count day so they get their money. Very little incentive there for investigation if a family can provide some sort of paperwork.

OP, I assume you have very young children. What is your end game? Charter school? Private school? How is that helping your community and local schools. You can be angry at boundary cheaters as yet another dysfunction of DCPS, but, ask yourself, are your hands clean?[/quote]

This is a very balanced post, and I'd note that the bolded is part of why I don't think DCPS is overly inclined to start randomly conducting checks of every kid who gets dropped off with a Maryland plate. I think there's a calculation that some of these kids are kind of in-and-out of DC depending on family situations and it would be disruptive to force them to disenroll when they go to their grandma's in PGC for three months only to re-enroll them when they return to their mom's on the Hill. Moreover, for kids experiencing trauma, it would be traumatic to also be subjected to additional scrutiny. I suspect there is a little bit of a "Do No Harm" approach in play. [/quote]

I work in social services in DC and agree with that PP. Many families are very transient and children sleep at different relatives depending on parents' work schedules and caregivers' availability. That is a level of instability that very few on DCUM can really understand. For those families (not all, granted), I think it's PERFECTLY reasonable for a family to choose the best school when your child really doesn't have a primary address. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics