Anonymous
Post 02/04/2013 09:56     Subject: Re:Non dc residents
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As someone who hasn't been in DC long and has gotten way too many parking tix (most about not registering my car), I fully support the idea of sending DC parking enforcement after out of District cheaters! They should be able to impound your car on the spot after an initial warning.


So ticket all the people that commute into the city? The tickets you're getting a a result of you breaking the law. The cars with other state tags are perfectly legal to park in the city before 10pm.


Wow you have totally missed the point of this suggestion. It's not to ticket parked out of state cars just for being parked. It's to use Parking Enforcement who are everywhere to monitor out of state licences dropping off at DC public schools. I don't think it was a serious suggestion, but since PE are so effective at what they do, why not expamd their purview to school cheaters?


This isn't an off the wall suggestion. What DCPS should do is use one of those cars equiped with license plate scanners to scan license plates at drop off. That can easly produce a list of the registered owners. Look at the list for out of state addresses for parents of kids in the school and then follow up case-by-case. Some cases will be legit. A previous poster mentioned that military families on active duty, for example, don't have to re-register their vehicles in DC. Other cases may be a caregiver or a grandparent. But it will allow the schools to ferret out the fraudsters.


I like it, I like it!
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2013 22:06     Subject: Re:Non dc residents
How much "in boundary" fraud is there? I know one person who used someone else's address (with that person's blessing) to get her kid into a more desirable DCPS. It really pisses off people like me who are in the same in boundary district but play it honestly.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2013 20:27     Subject: Non dc residents
that kid coming in on the bus from VA to Duke ellington was paying tuition -- count on it.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2013 19:24     Subject: Re:Non dc residents
Anonymous wrote:

This isn't an off the wall suggestion. What DCPS should do is use one of those cars equiped with license plate scanners to scan license plates at drop off. That can easly produce a list of the registered owners. Look at the list for out of state addresses for parents of kids in the school and then follow up case-by-case. Some cases will be legit. A previous poster mentioned that military families on active duty, for example, don't have to re-register their vehicles in DC. Other cases may be a caregiver or a grandparent. But it will allow the schools to ferret out the fraudsters.


Is it any harder to fraudulently register a vehicle than it is to fraudulently register for school? I registered a car a couple of months ago and I didn't have to show any proof of residence, whereas for DCPS I have to show two forms of proof, and I have to re-verify every year. It seems that the benefits of going to the school of your choice are much greater than the benefits of picking your jurisdiction for car registration, and that people would just move their car registration if this sort of verification became routine.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2013 17:24     Subject: Re:Non dc residents
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As someone who hasn't been in DC long and has gotten way too many parking tix (most about not registering my car), I fully support the idea of sending DC parking enforcement after out of District cheaters! They should be able to impound your car on the spot after an initial warning.


So ticket all the people that commute into the city? The tickets you're getting a a result of you breaking the law. The cars with other state tags are perfectly legal to park in the city before 10pm.


Wow you have totally missed the point of this suggestion. It's not to ticket parked out of state cars just for being parked. It's to use Parking Enforcement who are everywhere to monitor out of state licences dropping off at DC public schools. I don't think it was a serious suggestion, but since PE are so effective at what they do, why not expamd their purview to school cheaters?


This isn't an off the wall suggestion. What DCPS should do is use one of those cars equiped with license plate scanners to scan license plates at drop off. That can easly produce a list of the registered owners. Look at the list for out of state addresses for parents of kids in the school and then follow up case-by-case. Some cases will be legit. A previous poster mentioned that military families on active duty, for example, don't have to re-register their vehicles in DC. Other cases may be a caregiver or a grandparent. But it will allow the schools to ferret out the fraudsters.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2013 16:15     Subject: Non dc residents
Anonymous wrote:We're a military family, applied to a charter from overseas once we learned my husband's next assignment would be at the Pentagon. Child got in, and we established residency in DC shortly before the school year started.

Please don't assume that everyone who applies to a charter from elsewhere is trying to cheat. Lots of military, government, and private sector families move into Washington for a short or long term assignment. There is no way we could have physically come to Washington from Korea to apply for a charter, so I'm glad we could do so online. Otherwise we likely would have lived out in the burbs somewhere.

As it is, we like Washington DC a lot, and are looking to buy a house here and retire here.


I don't see anyone saying everyone who applies from out of state is cheating. Cheating is a pretty simple concept: If you apply with your honest address at the time of application (wherever out of state you are), then your not likely to be a cheater. But if you apply with DC addy that isn't now and won't be your residence this fall, that is cheating. So no, applying online or from out of state isn't the issue.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2013 15:37     Subject: Re:Non dc residents
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As someone who hasn't been in DC long and has gotten way too many parking tix (most about not registering my car), I fully support the idea of sending DC parking enforcement after out of District cheaters! They should be able to impound your car on the spot after an initial warning.


So ticket all the people that commute into the city? The tickets you're getting a a result of you breaking the law. The cars with other state tags are perfectly legal to park in the city before 10pm.


Wow you have totally missed the point of this suggestion. It's not to ticket parked out of state cars just for being parked. It's to use Parking Enforcement who are everywhere to monitor out of state licences dropping off at DC public schools. I don't think it was a serious suggestion, but since PE are so effective at what they do, why not expamd their purview to school cheaters?
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2013 14:54     Subject: Non dc residents
Agree, not always a valid automatic assumption that people are cheating - nor that nobody from outside DC would want to go to a DC charter. We are friendly with a family from VA that we know for a fact is paying tuition to go to our DC charter.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2013 14:17     Subject: Non dc residents
Anonymous wrote:We're a military family, applied to a charter from overseas once we learned my husband's next assignment would be at the Pentagon. Child got in, and we established residency in DC shortly before the school year started.

Please don't assume that everyone who applies to a charter from elsewhere is trying to cheat. Lots of military, government, and private sector families move into Washington for a short or long term assignment. There is no way we could have physically come to Washington from Korea to apply for a charter, so I'm glad we could do so online. Otherwise we likely would have lived out in the burbs somewhere.

As it is, we like Washington DC a lot, and are looking to buy a house here and retire here.


Welcome!
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2013 13:14     Subject: Non dc residents
I think OP is a troll. No one would send their dc to school in DC if they lived in Virginia.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2013 10:25     Subject: Non dc residents
We're a military family, applied to a charter from overseas once we learned my husband's next assignment would be at the Pentagon. Child got in, and we established residency in DC shortly before the school year started.

Please don't assume that everyone who applies to a charter from elsewhere is trying to cheat. Lots of military, government, and private sector families move into Washington for a short or long term assignment. There is no way we could have physically come to Washington from Korea to apply for a charter, so I'm glad we could do so online. Otherwise we likely would have lived out in the burbs somewhere.

As it is, we like Washington DC a lot, and are looking to buy a house here and retire here.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2013 21:57     Subject: Re:Non dc residents
Anonymous wrote:As someone who hasn't been in DC long and has gotten way too many parking tix (most about not registering my car), I fully support the idea of sending DC parking enforcement after out of District cheaters! They should be able to impound your car on the spot after an initial warning.


So ticket all the people that commute into the city? The tickets you're getting a a result of you breaking the law. The cars with other state tags are perfectly legal to park in the city before 10pm.
Anonymous
Post 02/02/2013 10:51     Subject: Non dc residents
My kids attend a charter school in dc. At drop off I saw kids drop off pre-k kid from car with new MD tags (more than one day so I don't think it is fluke). Not sure if they are cheating abut plan on reporting, just in case. It will be pretty easy to determine if the family lives in DC. IF they are cheating, they should be not be allowed to attend. THat simple!
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2013 23:19     Subject: Re:Non dc residents
As someone who hasn't been in DC long and has gotten way too many parking tix (most about not registering my car), I fully support the idea of sending DC parking enforcement after out of District cheaters! They should be able to impound your car on the spot after an initial warning.
Anonymous
Post 02/01/2013 22:01     Subject: Re:Non dc residents
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
A lot of people cheat OP and DC is so negligent on everything but parking enforcement, that people get away with go to DCPS for years. My thought is they should send parking enforcement after them. DC has very generous assistance for people with special needs. I know cheaters from MD and VA who avail themselves of getting DC public money to go to the Lab School for example . It's galling.

A lot of PG County folks have drive their kids into DCPS too and I met some kids from VA on the bus going to Duke Ellington. DC really needs to crack down. MD + VA would never let us DC folks get away with that.


Lab is a private school, not DCPS.


Yes, but DC has a history of doing such a terrible job with special needs kids that the city sometimes pays for them to attend private school.
True. But DCPS has improved some special needs services, not all. That said, placement of a DC resident child by DCPS in private special education schools is done very strictly and according to federal disability law. Lab School is one of only a few successful private special education schools less than 20 miles from DC.

To the PP who knows out-of-DC cheaters at Lab School, PLEASE, report them to the OSSE hotline. Bona fide DC resident children could be losing out.