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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS schools do residency checks each year. We send letters to our families that need to be returned. If the letters “bounce” or are not returned, we know there is something fishy.

Many parents who do this are gaming the system. They own property (a cheap condo or something) in the boundary of the school they want and rent it out. When investigated, they are easily able to produce a mortgage statement. Following up on each of these requires detective work (i.e. following a family home each day) and effectively ruins the relationship with a school and the family. It would need to be an external group with a lot of time and funding. [/quote]

I have never received such a letter.[/quote]

It’s just a letter from FCPS. The topic could be anything - assigned teacher, Schoology updates, SB changes, rezoning, etc. it could be a postcard flyer.[/quote]

Never received one.

Multiple kids, 4 fcps schools.

I think you are making up stuff.[/quote]

We’ve received mail from FCPS, so you must be the one making it up.[/quote]

I receive mail from FCPS, but never anything that "needs to be returned." Or if I have, I definitely haven't returned it. I don't expect anything urgent to come through snail mail except maybe jury duty.[/quote]

It’s marked on the envelope to return to sender if the person addressed to doesn’t live there.

FCPS requires all schools to do a mailing with that specific envelope by December 1. We send out a letter with a flier in it about something like parent conferences or an upcoming event. Within a few weeks, we get the mail back for anyone who doesn’t live at the address in SIS, at least according to the post office. Then we contact the family and tell them to come in with proof of residency or their child/ren will be unenrolled within a few days.

It one of several ways we can catch families who do not live in our catchment area. Those families are told to register at their neighborhood school. And sometimes we come to learn that they don’t live in FCPS.

—an FCPS administrator [/quote]

I can see it is an attempt but as you can see by mine and the other post, these letters and others are likely being delivered and people are tossing them.  No one checks addresses and names that carefully anymore.   We get our neighbors mail, people down the street, sometimes ours is not delivered.  You can’t rely on the USPS for anything anymore.  Our car registration went missing for weeks recently and we only knew it was supposed to come because of informed delivery. It showed up a month late.  We’ve had bills show up on the scan and never arrive. [/quote]

Of course. That’s why you’ll see in the last paragraph I noted it’s ONE of the ways we catch families who live in the catchment area. It’s not the sole method of determining bona fide residency. [/quote]

DP. What are the other methods?[/quote]

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