Our home is located on Virginia Avenue (in DC). Apparently my K DC has said a few times that she lives in Virginia and I got a few subtle questions from parents about our address. I found it peculiar, but didn't raise a flag until another mother whispered to me that there was some concerns about our residence "outside DC". I thought it was bizarre. Didn't know that parents mission was to "police" residence fraud using as informants kindergarten children.

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Anonymous wrote:A friend is the registrar at a DCPS school. She has visited addresses claimed by parents as part of residency verification. Not the same as home visits but if a school suspects fraud, they can and some do visit to verify.

That seems like kind of a fun job.

Fraud is theft -- theft of a coveted school spot from someone who might otherwise be eligible for it and a theft of resources and services from other students and the school.

PP here. I agree. I mean it actually seems like fun to go out and find out if those listed addresses exist/match up. Law and order without the guns.

I get you. Like in the Blues Brothers movie where they use a false address to throw off the cops...1066 W. Addison, home of Wrigley Field.

Signed,
An Old Person and Baseball Fan

Yes! This! - PP.

Greedy?

Yes - greedy. Assuming that you are in a position to decide who "deserves" to go to Murch. I find most Murch posters to be insufferable. Whining now about their lack of underground parking. Wah wah wah.

omg, people are crazy with this. It is a very nasty action if you are not armed with clear and concrete facts.

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Some people clearly feel they have nothing to worry about. Like, the sort of people who will slap a Murch bumpersticker 4 inches away from their Maryland license plate and drive away from a grossly over-enrolled school.

right.... because it isn't possible that this is the nanny, the babysitter, or one half of a divorced couple. MYOB and stop being so greedy.

Greedy?

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Some people clearly feel they have nothing to worry about. Like, the sort of people who will slap a Murch bumpersticker 4 inches away from their Maryland license plate and drive away from a grossly over-enrolled school.

right.... because it isn't possible that this is the nanny, the babysitter, or one half of a divorced couple. MYOB and stop being so greedy.

I dunno. I followed a tan Chevy Suburban with Maryland tags and a Murch bumper sticker all the way down 36th St. NW today, after school. After pickup from Murch, that is.

Some people clearly feel they have nothing to worry about. Like, the sort of people who will slap a Murch bumpersticker 4 inches away from their Maryland license plate and drive away from a grossly over-enrolled school.

I think it's pretty hard to prove residency fraud unless DCPs was willing to hire private detectives to follow people around. The case of residency fraud I know of is a family moving mid year to a home in Maryland once the pre-k years were coming to an end but keeping the kid in DcPS to finish out the prek4 year. But the family started the year in DC and no one is really going to check after that...

Anonymous wrote:How is this family planning to commit residency fraud? what if the plan is to move before to DC before the school year starts?

This is not the plan. Don't want to give too many details.

I just have to wonder what kind of person stalks their kids' classmates and assumes they are gaming the system. Obviously, sad--but what else can we say?/is this woman the Ted Cruz to our Princeton dorm?

Anonymous wrote:A friend is the registrar at a DCPS school. She has visited addresses claimed by parents as part of residency verification. Not the same as home visits but if a school suspects fraud, they can and some do visit to verify.

We had a home visit at our JKLM, after rumors swirled that we were cheaters during our divorce (when my younger sister was living with me). Enduring the whispering campaign sucked and we're going private for middle school.

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Anonymous wrote:A friend is the registrar at a DCPS school. She has visited addresses claimed by parents as part of residency verification. Not the same as home visits but if a school suspects fraud, they can and some do visit to verify.

That seems like kind of a fun job.

Fraud is theft -- theft of a coveted school spot from someone who might otherwise be eligible for it and a theft of resources and services from other students and the school.

PP here. I agree. I mean it actually seems like fun to go out and find out if those listed addresses exist/match up. Law and order without the guns.

I get you. Like in the Blues Brothers movie where they use a false address to throw off the cops...1066 W. Addison, home of Wrigley Field.

Signed,
An Old Person and Baseball Fan

Really? Wow, I would hate to hang out with you. Showing a pregnant mom the sonogram of her baby sounds like a fun job. Marrying a couple who are deeply in love sounds like a fun job. Rooting children out of an elementary school doesn't sound like a fun job. Necessary yes, but fun no. Unless of course, you're a miserable human being. Anyone who loves to deliver bad news is broken on some level. You are one of them, PP.

I think we have to realize that for a lot of these women, opportunities for fun are few and far between. I mean, I bet they define, "eating a muffin sweetened with applesauce" as fun. Or, "driving the subaru to yoga class," as fun. It is a low bar, and they truly just deserve our pity--along with our scorn.

I know. But... cheating!!

You know how all the kids in your college who moved to New York were the ones who were fun at parties? Well, the kids from your alma mater who moved to DC were the ones who called security, because they thought that the black kid down the hall who listened to hip hop might also be smoking marijuana. Like... some of the songs had lyrics? These are women who need their safe spaces. So much.

How is this family planning to commit residency fraud? what if the plan is to move before to DC before the school year starts?