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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was asked to provide two forms of proof of residence, a bank statement and a utility bill.   A rental lease, a property tax bill or a sale contract on a residence will do.  
If the oarents are from a foreign country, a valid visa is also required.[b] Additionally, the parents also needto provide the visa, job proof from employer, [/b] health insurance, immunization records.   I helped someone from other country  to register their kid to attend mcps, the amount of paper work required by mcps was ridiculous!  [/quote]

That cannot possibly be true. The Supreme Court has ruled that children of undocumented immigrants cannot be excluded from public school. And proof of job? Kids whose parents are unemployed can't go to school?[/quote]

Agree with this PP.  There is NO WAY that is true.  Especially here in MoCo.  We're in a high FARMs/high ESOL school and there are quite a few undocumented parents.  There is no way the school requires job proof and all that other info.

I posted before, but we did not have to provide ANY documentation to enroll our kids in MCPS.  But, we're also not in a W cluster, so the rules may be different across the county.[/quote]

Do you really think that the rules are different for W schools? MCPS is one district. The rules are the same throughout the county. For the last time, W schools are not "better" than non W schools. It's just the population that the W schools are comprised of are majority affluent and white. If the residents of Bethesda and Potomac all moved to Wheaton, then Kennedy would be perceived as "better" than Wootton, Whitman, Churchill and WJ. [/quote]

Here's the documents which can be used to enroll: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/enroll/proofs.aspx
I certainly had to go through this twice now and have seen this list printed up on orientation fliers, etc.  It's possible some school, some time, didn't verify documents but it is district policy and I'd assume that was a fluke (or more likely simply forgotten by the parent who [b]was[/b] enrolling at their home school and spent more time finding an immunization record than a utility bill).[/quote]

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