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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC residency fraud is less of an issue in JKLM schools.  When one student at Janney recently aroused suspicions recently, the parents were all over it and the student was gone within days.  [/quote]

Is that true or was it just a rumor on dcum? [/quote]

It was true and effectively dealt with.  [/quote]

It's almost impossible to cheat at Janney.  Everyone lives within almost a square mile of each other.  If you lie and say you live on X block, that address is published in the directory.  Chances are, there are 10 other families on that block that go to Janney including one in your child's class. 
They will know immediately that the house you say you occupy is actually lived in by AU students or a 92 year old retiree.  It's impossible to sneak in under the radar.  
Legitimate out-of-boundary families have out-of-boundary addresses in the directory. [/quote]

The reality is that Janney doesn't have the conditions that make it easy for out-of-DC residency fraud.  Sure, someone could randomly pick an AU Park address and pretend to have residency, but for the reasons PP points out, that is difficult.  A school needs to have an OOB pipeline.  It used to be the case that DC government employees could just rely on friendly connections in DCPS to place their kids in a desirable school but no longer.  Now cheaters from PG need to play the OOB lottery like anyone else, but they just cheat and use a relative's or friends's address to do it.  Also it's easier to blend in and not attract notice in a diverse school where kids come from all over DC, than it is, say, in AU Park which is rather close-knit (and nosy) at the elementary level.[/quote]

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