I think OP lives in MD, not her "friends".

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Anonymous wrote:J.O. Wilson? I know of a child who lives in PG County and the mom works at NASA because it's on the route to her office.

JO Wilson probably has some address cheaters but it also has very few ELLs, so it's probably not the school OP is talking about.

Does J.O. Wilson have free food and cheap aftercare? If yes, Maryland will be there. My experience is OSSE isn't vigilant about much at all; they and DCPS need a control board.

Anonymous wrote:J.O. Wilson? I know of a child who lives in PG County and the mom works at NASA because it's on the route to her office.

JO Wilson probably has some address cheaters but it also has very few ELLs, so it's probably not the school OP is talking about.

^^ Does MD have

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Anonymous wrote:Are these PK cheaters? Why would they otherwise want to be in DCPS vs their suburban system?

I don't know. There are at least a few at our school from Silver Spring. I'd imagine in some cases they feel the DCPS is a better option--other times, I wonder if it's just convenience to their work.

It's convenience to family for aftercare and pickups, too.

Aftercare at some schools is relatively cheap.

Yes, but it also kind of sucks, and you have to be there by 6. Grammie is more flexible, serves dinner, plus TLC. We have a parade of 3:30 pm grandmas doing pickup and it is adorable. My MIL takes part when she visits.

Picking up at aftercare in DC when you get off work at 5/5:30 is possible. It would be a LOT harder to get to Silver Spring to make a 6pm aftercare pick up.

Interesting. Does have any truancy process that would recognize that residents weren't in the public or privates. I don't know anything about home schooling but got the impression from a coworker that they had to file paperwork since they weren't using the schools.

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Anonymous wrote:J.O. Wilson? I know of a child who lives in PG County and the mom works at NASA because it's on the route to her office.

I thought NASA was in Greenbelt...is there a DC office?

There is; it's by the Federal Center SW metro (closest elementaries would be Amidon-Bowen and Brent).

PP, if you actually know about this, have you reported it to OSSE?

Policy makes sense to me. If you have a kid who isn't a DC resident, school shouldn't receive any money for educating the child. And it removes incentive of more money school had for enrolling non-residents.

I have no sympathy for resident cheaters. Saw first hand DC families unable to get into school as OOB students but plenty of MD families who did get spots. How do I know they were MD residents? Because they parked car in front of my house and walked to school.

Anonymous wrote:J.O. Wilson? I know of a child who lives in PG County and the mom works at NASA because it's on the route to her office.

I am sure she has a clearance and does not think twice of stealing 10K a year.

Anonymous wrote:J.O. Wilson? I know of a child who lives in PG County and the mom works at NASA because it's on the route to her office.

I thought NASA was in Greenbelt...is there a DC office?

J.O. Wilson? I know of a child who lives in PG County and the mom works at NASA because it's on the route to her office.

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Anonymous wrote:Are these PK cheaters? Why would they otherwise want to be in DCPS vs their suburban system?

I don't know. There are at least a few at our school from Silver Spring. I'd imagine in some cases they feel the DCPS is a better option--other times, I wonder if it's just convenience to their work.

It's convenience to family for aftercare and pickups, too.

Aftercare at some schools is relatively cheap.

Yes, but it also kind of sucks, and you have to be there by 6. Grammie is more flexible, serves dinner, plus TLC. We have a parade of 3:30 pm grandmas doing pickup and it is adorable. My MIL takes part when she visits.

Picking up at aftercare in DC when you get off work at 5/5:30 is possible. It would be a LOT harder to get to Silver Spring to make a 6pm aftercare pick up.

I love how you think all low-income people get off work at a reasonable hour.

I don't. I was simply pointing out that if the reason for enrolling the children is that the parents work downtown, they would have to pick up kids in aftercare by 6pm and it's a lot easier for someone working in DC to do that in DC than Silver Spring. Also someone mentioned that these were DC government employees, many of whom get off work between 4:30 and 5:30. But thanks for being an asshole for no reason!

Anonymous wrote:Why penalize the kids at the school who live in DC? That's what a $10K/per cheater cut would do by reducing funding for the school and kids who are legitimately there. Instead, they should just go after the cheater and seek reimbursement or kick them out of the school system.

+ 1. It makes no sense to hurt DC children but that's what happens if their school loses funding because of cheaters. Punish the cheaters. Garish wages, ruin credit. Don't hurt DC kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Are these PK cheaters? Why would they otherwise want to be in DCPS vs their suburban system?

I don't know. There are at least a few at our school from Silver Spring. I'd imagine in some cases they feel the DCPS is a better option--other times, I wonder if it's just convenience to their work.

It's convenience to family for aftercare and pickups, too.

Aftercare at some schools is relatively cheap.

Yes, but it also kind of sucks, and you have to be there by 6. Grammie is more flexible, serves dinner, plus TLC. We have a parade of 3:30 pm grandmas doing pickup and it is adorable. My MIL takes part when she visits.

Picking up at aftercare in DC when you get off work at 5/5:30 is possible. It would be a LOT harder to get to Silver Spring to make a 6pm aftercare pick up.

I love how you think all low-income people get off work at a reasonable hour.

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Anonymous wrote:Are these PK cheaters? Why would they otherwise want to be in DCPS vs their suburban system?

I don't know. There are at least a few at our school from Silver Spring. I'd imagine in some cases they feel the DCPS is a better option--other times, I wonder if it's just convenience to their work.

It's convenience to family for aftercare and pickups, too.

Aftercare at some schools is relatively cheap.

Yes, but it also kind of sucks, and you have to be there by 6. Grammie is more flexible, serves dinner, plus TLC. We have a parade of 3:30 pm grandmas doing pickup and it is adorable. My MIL takes part when she visits.

Picking up at aftercare in DC when you get off work at 5/5:30 is possible. It would be a LOT harder to get to Silver Spring to make a 6pm aftercare pick up.

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Anonymous wrote:Are these PK cheaters? Why would they otherwise want to be in DCPS vs their suburban system?

I don't know. There are at least a few at our school from Silver Spring. I'd imagine in some cases they feel the DCPS is a better option--other times, I wonder if it's just convenience to their work.

It's convenience to family for aftercare and pickups, too.

Aftercare at some schools is relatively cheap.

Yes, but it also kind of sucks, and you have to be there by 6. Grammie is more flexible, serves dinner, plus TLC. We have a parade of 3:30 pm grandmas doing pickup and it is adorable. My MIL takes part when she visits.