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Anonymous wrote:I can’t for the life of me think why someone would lie to send their kids to DC schools. Even free pre-K, you get what you pay for. Are PG schools that bad?

Yes, PG is that bad!!!

But so is DC but what ever, you do you

Anonymous wrote:I can’t for the life of me think why someone would lie to send their kids to DC schools. Even free pre-K, you get what you pay for. Are PG schools that bad?

Yes, PG is that bad!!!

Anonymous wrote:I can’t for the life of me think why someone would lie to send their kids to DC schools. Even free pre-K, you get what you pay for. Are PG schools that bad?

First of all yes, many are. But they keep the older sibs in for the free pk for the younger sibs.

In addition to free PK, my impression is that the free or subsidized aftercare is part of the attraction. If you work in DC until 5 or 5:30, it's hard to get back to PG in time to do pick up by 6. It's much easier to make a 6pm deadline if your kids are in afterschool in DC. Moreover, vacations don't always coincide perfectly. If you work for DCPS and your child goes to school in PG, you may have slightly different breaks, and finding childcare for them can be a hassle.

A few years back, one of the people charged with fraud was the AP of a Capitol Hill School. She drove in from Maryland every day with her grandchildren. Her daughter (the children's mother) and grandchildren lived with her in Maryland. Her grandchildren went to the school where she worked and were in its free aftercare program. They rode home with her. My impression is that a lot of teachers and parents knew--but who wants to get in a fight with the AP?

In a lot of localities in the US, teachers are allowed to enroll their kids in the district where they work. DC doesn't allow this, but after the first wave of charges--mostly against DC employees--DC instituted a program where it somehow subsidizes home purchases in DC by teachers.

I can’t for the life of me think why someone would lie to send their kids to DC schools. Even free pre-K, you get what you pay for. Are PG schools that bad?

Anonymous wrote:Just because they have MD plates doesn't mean that they don't live in DC, especially if they have access to offstreet parking. I've floated in and out between DC and MD and didn't always change my license over. I've been back in MD for 7 months and still have my DC plates. I'll likely keep them until I have to renew my registration in late 2022.

I guess you like paying more for insurance

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Anonymous wrote:2018 is a while ago. OSSE has beefed up its residency investigations in the past few years, along with fines and other penalties for residency fraud. Things are improving, just not as much as you'd like.

Source?

. Residency fraud investigator told us this when we were investigated and cleared two years ago. She said the full-time investigative staff of two was supposed to rise to 4 or 5 by 2023.

So DCPS still will be probably 10 people short of the minimum staff it needs to take the issue seriously. Still lip service. Got it.

Before Trump this was pretty much what the Daily Caller and Breitbart did with a lot of their editorial staff. Investigate DC residency fraud so they race bait and whine.

I suspect someone was sad about their lottery results or their real estate options.

A few years after that someone took out ads on the DC buses encouraging people to report residency fraud...

I've always suspected if someone looked they'd find a right wing think tank with ties to the Russian mob (as they all have) behind that endeavor.
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Anonymous wrote:It's everyone's business. We pay taxes in DC.

EXACTLY!!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2018 is a while ago. OSSE has beefed up its residency investigations in the past few years, along with fines and other penalties for residency fraud. Things are improving, just not as much as you'd like.

Source?

. Residency fraud investigator told us this when we were investigated and cleared two years ago. She said the full-time investigative staff of two was supposed to rise to 4 or 5 by 2023.