Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love how DCUM takes every opportunity to slam PG people now.

I believe I read on another thread that there were people from Montgomery County attending DC schools, too.

I live in PG and do not have children yet, but I am zoned for a good elementary school. None of my neighbors "cheat" their boundaries.

So unless you actually have some evidence to suggest "it is all PG people," then don't make those accusations/generalizations.

You don't have kids? You don't have children in DC public schools? Why are you on this thread again?

Because she is tired of people unfairly slamming PG parents for their own amusement. Oh, and yes I am a charter school parent living in DC, and yes it is getting old.

Well I'm a DC parent. I would get tired of people slamming DC parents for their own amusement, but then I don't bother to read NoVA or MD forums so I really don't know if they actually do. The burbs are beneath my notice.

Hi from OP. Appreciate hearing that it's not just PG.

I've heard of a few cases where it was parent mobility, the parents just figured they'd keep the kid in their old school vs switching schools, or issues where a kid is being bounced back and forth from parent's home to a relative's.

Also DC has almost universal preschool while PG's headstart program has stringent income requirements so there's competition for those spots.

Anonymous wrote:Am i right? I asume that it is either out of being from a particular neighborhood and then moving across the line to PG County and still wanting to keep a child in his/her former community, or that certain "Ward9" schools aren't any better than DC and parents do it just for convenience.

What have you seen anecdotally?

this thread is useless, and seems to be there just to stir up trouble. cheaters appear to come from many places in MD (PG and MoCo included) and VA, for various reasons, which may include parents working in DC and taking advantage of free PS and Pre-K, and aftercare, convenient drop-off and pick up on their way to and from work, and sought after full immersion charters or anyway good schools. Frankly, as a DC tax payer, and as a parent who applied for full immersion charters for both of my kids, I could not care less where these people come from (PG county, Great Falls, Rockville, Silver Spring, fly in every day from Paris or from the Moon), I just want them out of DC schools (or in by pay full tuition and once there is no DC kid on waitlist)

Anonymous wrote:And MoCo high schools start very early.

It's really not that big a deal. It's 40 mins earlier than my other DCs private school but with a longer commute to private school they leave the house only about 15 mins apart. And I am totally not giving up our Bethesda high school for a DC public school over 15 minutes. Despite all the hoopla about the start times the kids adjust to it and really don't mind it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love how DCUM takes every opportunity to slam PG people now.

I believe I read on another thread that there were people from Montgomery County attending DC schools, too.

I live in PG and do not have children yet, but I am zoned for a good elementary school. None of my neighbors "cheat" their boundaries.

So unless you actually have some evidence to suggest "it is all PG people," then don't make those accusations/generalizations.

You don't have kids? You don't have children in DC public schools? Why are you on this thread again?

Because she is tired of people unfairly slamming PG parents for their own amusement. Oh, and yes I am a charter school parent living in DC, and yes it is getting old.

My kids and I live in Montgomery Co. And they go to school in DC. Not a cheater though. I pay DC by check downtown every month for their tuition.

Anonymous wrote:I love how DCUM takes every opportunity to slam PG people now.

I believe I read on another thread that there were people from Montgomery County attending DC schools, too.

I live in PG and do not have children yet, but I am zoned for a good elementary school. None of my neighbors "cheat" their boundaries.

So unless you actually have some evidence to suggest "it is all PG people," then don't make those accusations/generalizations.

You don't have kids? You don't have children in DC public schools? Why are you on this thread again?

I love how DCUM takes every opportunity to slam PG people now.

I believe I read on another thread that there were people from Montgomery County attending DC schools, too.

I live in PG and do not have children yet, but I am zoned for a good elementary school. None of my neighbors "cheat" their boundaries.

So unless you actually have some evidence to suggest "it is all PG people," then don't make those accusations/generalizations.

Your assumption is incorrect. I knew of a MC student at my kids' charter.

And MoCo high schools start very early.

Some are from Southern MD and Montgomery County. They commute in with their parents (to their jobs downtown) and commute back at the end of the day/aftercare.

some of it is not PG, but people sneaking in to ellington, which is highly desirable to some students

Its the close-in pg county residents in the less than desireable school districts. Its not the folks that are zoned for heather hills, whitehall, and tulip grove.

Am i right? I asume that it is either out of being from a particular neighborhood and then moving across the line to PG County and still wanting to keep a child in his/her former community, or that certain "Ward9" schools aren't any better than DC and parents do it just for convenience.

What have you seen anecdotally?