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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Perhaps a good first step for FCPS before even entertaining rezoning or building additions would be to require all students to confirm their residency before they can register for classes.[/b]

I could be wrong, but I suspect there are many kids attending the over enrolled schools who do not actually live within the school zone.

Requiring a current utility bill every year at registration might fix the enrollment at schools in the 2-7% over capacity. [/quote]

I'm a FCPS HS teacher. And a parent of a kid in a DC charter school. For my kid's enrollment, I have to prove residency EVERY year.

My students don't. And there are LOADS of them who cheat on residency to be in a "better" school. I don't get why FCPS doesn't verify every year.[/quote]

I used to think this wasn’t such a big problem. Then I started volunteering at school and had to wait near the checkin desk. It was eye-opening and sad how some kids unintentionally outed themselves when explaining why they were tardy. It would be the kid w/o a parent coming in saying they’d got stuck in traffic on the beltway. Our pyramid isn’t near the beltway. The kids would then explain how they had moved from western Fairfax to places east … one came from east of the beltway in Maryland! I really felt for the kids who had no idea what they’d done, and the secretary trying to hide her astonished look. [/quote]

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