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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree. Not sure how DCPS would "get" the boundary cheating families owning multiple properties anyway.  What's to stop them from collecting mail at any property they own? Why bother to put scare city ed resources into chasing down such parents? Hello, the DC tax base is still shrinking post Covid.  I don't get why posters come here to call these guys out for "fraud" when the only people who'd pay the price for being caught for fraud are the "cheaters."  Have you guys nothing better to worry about in this fraught city?  How about making noise about the fact that that spots at desirable 5th or 6th grade-12th charters East of Rock Creek are in increasingly hard to come by. Meanwhile, Walls, Ellington and Banneker don't have room for all comers and Eastern HS still doesn't appeal to more than a handful, literally a handful, of high SES families.[/quote]

Look it’s fraud. If you are ok with lying about your residence on official govt docs more power to you. Personally I am very conservative about this stuff because I don’t want to risk my clearance. I won’t report you for it but I will think you are trashy and dumb. [/quote]

The DC Residency Verification Form is the form to verify where you live for DCPS.  It's very clear, in numerous places, about what they are asking you to certify, and that's you live in DC.  It's not an address verification form, it's a *residency* verification form. That's what they care about, and that's where actual penalties come in if you violate them. There's nothing on the form about school boundaries. As far as DCPS is concerned, "residency fraud" is a real, meaningful concept - there's a reporting line and everything. Whereas "boundary fraud" is only real on DCUM.

If you falsify where you live on your tax forms in order to submit that DCPS for proof of residency (but you actually do live in DC), you are committing fraud -- against the IRS, not against DCPS. But if you modify the address on your pay stub from one DC address to another and submit that as proof of residency, that is deceptive and self-serving and it might make you a bad person, but it's not fraud according the actual government agency that manages this. [/quote]

Yes it is fraud. The form you sign expressly has you swear that you and the child reside at the listed address. [/quote]

The word "address" appears zero times under "Sign Certification of Residency Requirements." You are certifying that you "have established and will maintain a physical presence in the District". This is a certification of residency, and it is entirely focused on whether you live in the district. That is what DC cares about. [/quote]

no, you certify as follows: “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.”

Your argument that “address” on the form means “just any address I own property in the District but don’t actually reside in” is pretty laughable. Good luck with that.

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