You have to have your kid lie too. That seems like a pretty sh*try thing to do.

I have a friend who does it. She has 2 kids assigned to an Elem in east county but drives them to a school in Rockville every day. I think it’s wrong but she’s been getting away with it for 5 years now.

I don’t live in DMV anymore but we moved this year within our town but out of bounds for our prior elementary school. It turned out the district assumed we wanted to stick with our existing school, but we could have petitioned in to our neighborhood school. They even have a process for petitioning in from a neighboring town (but that’s more complicated from a tax perspective). I’d be surprised if there’s not a way to request a different school in your district.

I don't live in the same county, but am curious, is there no formal/legal way to request a transfer (within the same county) to the school you want your child to attend? I live Loudoun county (VA) where there's a formal process called "special permission" -- in a nutshell you can request a transfer to other schools within the county that have space. I've known lots and lots of families that have sent kids at every age (elem/middle/high) to different schools using this process. You do have to provide transportation but otherwise it's a really nice option.

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Anonymous wrote:I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!!

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children.

I rented an apartment in the school district I wanted. So I missed out on the property ladder. Instead of my friend who bought a house that I also could have afforded and lied about the address. Maybe that makes me a sucker. But I sleep very well at night.

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Anonymous wrote:

It happens and people don't tell on each other.

In middle school, my son's friend told us his grandparents lived inbounds but not him and his parents. He was quite open about it. We didn't care one little bit. It's not our job to police who goes where. If it becomes too big of a problem, the school system will have to enforce residency checks, but I highly doubt it's a problem.

Sigh, this is why schools are a mess.

In MCPS, no. There is very little residency fraud. It does not affect school funding or overcrowding.

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Anonymous wrote:I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!!

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children.

No, it shows you think rules don't apply to you.

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It happens and people don't tell on each other.

In middle school, my son's friend told us his grandparents lived inbounds but not him and his parents. He was quite open about it. We didn't care one little bit. It's not our job to police who goes where. If it becomes too big of a problem, the school system will have to enforce residency checks, but I highly doubt it's a problem.

Sigh, this is why schools are a mess.

Anonymous wrote:I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!!

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children.

I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!!

It happens and people don't tell on each other.

In middle school, my son's friend told us his grandparents lived inbounds but not him and his parents. He was quite open about it. We didn't care one little bit. It's not our job to police who goes where. If it becomes too big of a problem, the school system will have to enforce residency checks, but I highly doubt it's a problem.

Anonymous wrote:You could actually go to jail. Well, actually that only depends on how much melanin you have:

Tanya McDowell: https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/homeless-mum-given-five-years-in-prison-for-using-friends-address-to-enrol-son-in-school/

Kelley Williams-Bolar: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-mom-jailed-sending-kids-school-district/story?id=12763654

Yolanda Hill: https://www.usnews.com/education/articles/2009/03/02/schools-crack-down-on-boundary-hopping

just to name a few

Those are all parents who didn't live in the district they were sending to, not parents who did live in the district but wanted a different school than the one their residence was assigned. There's a difference. Neither one is really right, but if you live in, say, PG or Frederick or DC and send to schools in MoCo, you are stealing services you haven't paid taxes for. If you are zoned to, say, Kemp Mill ES and decide to use an aunt's address which feeds to Luxmanor ES, you are breaking the rules but not actually stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of services, as you are a MoCo taxpayer anyway.

People do it, OP. If you don't live in Montgomery County I would not do this, because they will spend more effort to catch you and will go after you for money (or worse) if they find out. Switching schools within MCPS, well, I mean, it's dishonest and not right but I imagine it happens more than we know. Though if everyone did that, the system would be utter chaos. I guess it depends on whether you think you can keep up the fiction, how upset your kid will be if MCPS busts you and throws your kid out of their school mid-year, and whether you are comfortable looking in the mirror at a cheat and a liar. There's all kinds of rationalizations for it, some of which I do understand, but that is what it boils down to.

Anonymous wrote:You could actually go to jail. Well, actually that only depends on how much melanin you have:

Tanya McDowell: https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/homeless-mum-given-five-years-in-prison-for-using-friends-address-to-enrol-son-in-school/

Kelley Williams-Bolar: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-mom-jailed-sending-kids-school-district/story?id=12763654

Yolanda Hill: https://www.usnews.com/education/articles/2009/03/02/schools-crack-down-on-boundary-hopping

just to name a few

None of these people are from mcps. Please show us a local example.

I think it is fairly easy to pull off (with few consquences--other than your kid being sent back to their inbound school) as long as you can get the paperwork needed to enroll. I live in the DCC and have known a handful of people that did this with no consequences. More than half of these families did it for convenience rather than getting their kids into "better" schools.

You could actually go to jail. Well, actually that only depends on how much melanin you have:

Tanya McDowell: https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/homeless-mum-given-five-years-in-prison-for-using-friends-address-to-enrol-son-in-school/

Kelley Williams-Bolar: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-mom-jailed-sending-kids-school-district/story?id=12763654

Yolanda Hill: https://www.usnews.com/education/articles/2009/03/02/schools-crack-down-on-boundary-hopping

just to name a few

Anonymous wrote:spin in as your relatives are providing childcare

Nope. That’s not a residence.

It’s illegal, so you risk prosecution. It’s probably not likely but it’s possible.