Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 12:08     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Boundary Crusader and fans strike me as consumed w/jealousy that there are UMC families who can afford more than one residential property in DC. They're all worked about how a vacation rental can work as an in-boundary address or something, at least part of the time. Yawn. Come on, DCPS has infinitely bigger problems that aren't being addressed.


Nobody is jealous of you. You are still a fraud/cheater though.


No, I'm not a fraud/cheater. I'm a dad who wishes that J-R offered more rigorous academics to my bright, diligent rising 10th grader who was largely bored in his 9th grade classes. Fix that, please.


uh, well, there's better high schools in this city than jackson reid. maybe try one of those? also, using a vacation rental as an in-boundary address is definitely cheating.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 12:05     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Boundary Crusader and fans strike me as consumed w/jealousy that there are UMC families who can afford more than one residential property in DC. They're all worked about how a vacation rental can work as an in-boundary address or something, at least part of the time. Yawn. Come on, DCPS has infinitely bigger problems that aren't being addressed.


Nobody is jealous of you. You are still a fraud/cheater though.


No, I'm not a fraud/cheater. I'm a dad who wishes that J-R offered more rigorous academics to my bright, diligent rising 10th grader who was largely bored in his 9th grade classes. Fix that, please.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 12:03     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Anonymous wrote:How do you know they didnt get in from a feeder? A bunch of Deal (and previous Hardy) feeders were pretty easy to get into for about five years. Some still are.


My DD got in to Hardy out-of-bound. We were only interested in moving because of JR as a high school option. We were inbound for Dunbar High and saw the Hardy feeder lottery win as a way to expand our options.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 11:45     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
I think it's fine for OP to report an out of boundaries kid if he legit thinks they're breaking the rules and talking about it in an obvious way. If every kid were allowed to attend whatever school they wanted, some schools would be overcrowded, that's why boundaries exist.

I think OP is an obnoxious jerk for "asking for the number for residency fraud" because it's obvious he just wants to create ill-will and malice towards alleged boundary cheats, when anyone with an ounce of intelligence can google the number in 2 seconds.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 11:41     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whenever this type of thread comes up, most reasonable people express sympathy for the kids involved and prefer to place their best interests above that of the scheming parents.
And then the inevitable retort on the part of the OP and co is that all these posters must be immoral and probably commit fraud themselves. This is so predictable.

OP, I really hope that someone calls you out when you do something the least bit wrong. Busybodies like you don't even realize that you hold others to standards that you might not hold for yourself. No one is perfect. Everyone breaks the rules in different ways. You are the type of person who will always find excuses for your own rule-breaking, but never excuse it in others.


So basically you endorse people breaking rules for their own benefit

newsflash to the boundary cheats: you can cheat, you can probably get away with it, but you cannot stop people from judging you as a lying cheat. And some will report you. FAFO.


PP you replied to. As this thread shows (and multiple ones before it), most people don't judge that hard. It's only you and a very small minority who can muster up enough hate. Morally, I think you are in the wrong to be so punitive. There are rules and rules. Some rules aren't that important. Some rules are extremely important. Being rigid and inflexible and not knowing which is which is bad. Not good. And again, it's not like you have some sort of moral high ground. I'm sure that when you skirt the rules, you tell yourself you have very good reasons to do so, and absolve yourself any blame!




This actually is an important rule. And if you break the rule (because you narcissistically believe you are entitled to lie to get what everyone else goes through great efforts to get legally) then you sign up for the consequences. You don’t get to be a cheater and also castigate people for being immoral for calling you out on your cheating.


That's debatable. In practice, it's not important because most people follow the rule. The few people who don't, get the side-eye and there's enough threats in the system to discourage a larger number of people from doing shady stuff. This allows the majority to stay compassionate and not report families who might be breaking the rule.

It's critical to understand how compassion only works in systems that generally work as intended and have a little wiggle room for a few rule-breakers. Most systems are able to accommodate such situations. Boundaries in DCPS are generally followed. DCPS is NOT academically great overall, but that's not because a few families break the rules to maneuver their way to the "good" schools. It's because DC has a preponderance of low-income families who struggle with school attendance and other socio-economic problems like family stability, gang associations and general apathy towards education, and those impacts scores and learning atmospheres in certain schools.

Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 11:36     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Boundary Crusader and fans strike me as consumed w/jealousy that there are UMC families who can afford more than one residential property in DC. They're all worked about how a vacation rental can work as an in-boundary address or something, at least part of the time. Yawn. Come on, DCPS has infinitely bigger problems that aren't being addressed.


Nobody is jealous of you. You are still a fraud/cheater though.


You keep accusing people who disagree with you. You lose all credibility when you do that. You don't get to label people cheats just because you don't like their attitude, which is what you're doing here to this family. You don't know if they have as much right to be there as your family, so why post on DCUM and make all this fuss?

At this point, your insistence and name-calling makes me think you're mentally unwell.



Op could possibly be wrong about this family but the PP I was responding to was absolutely describing cheating/fraud (listing the residence of a non-domicile in enrollment paperwork).

It just kind of makes me laugh how cheaters get so mad when faced with the fact that they are, indeed, cheaters. if you don’t want to be called a cheater, don’t cheat.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 11:33     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Boundary Crusader and fans strike me as consumed w/jealousy that there are UMC families who can afford more than one residential property in DC. They're all worked about how a vacation rental can work as an in-boundary address or something, at least part of the time. Yawn. Come on, DCPS has infinitely bigger problems that aren't being addressed.


Nobody is jealous of you. You are still a fraud/cheater though.


You keep accusing people who disagree with you. You lose all credibility when you do that. You don't get to label people cheats just because you don't like their attitude, which is what you're doing here to this family. You don't know if they have as much right to be there as your family, so why post on DCUM and make all this fuss?

At this point, your insistence and name-calling makes me think you're mentally unwell.


Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 11:28     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Anonymous wrote:Boundary Crusader and fans strike me as consumed w/jealousy that there are UMC families who can afford more than one residential property in DC. They're all worked about how a vacation rental can work as an in-boundary address or something, at least part of the time. Yawn. Come on, DCPS has infinitely bigger problems that aren't being addressed.


Nobody is jealous of you. You are still a fraud/cheater though.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 11:27     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If the kid lives in DC and the school has approved their residency paperwork in some capacity, there is basically no remedy.

If the kid lives OUTSIDE DC, https://dc-osse-oer.i-sight.com/portal


Thank you for answering and not being a dick like everyone else.

To the others, the only number I could find of Google was for residency fraud, not boundary fraud. I thought I’d seen a number posted on here in the past so when I couldn’t find an answer on my own I thought I’d ask. Sorry to disappoint and imply I’m some weirdo who gets off on asking a question for reasons other than getting an answer. I’ve been reading this board for 13+ years and always thought most people didn’t support boundary fraud. Guess morals on this have gone the same way as the rest of the morals on this country.


The reason you only found a number for residency fraud is that "boundary fraud" in the context of DCPS exists solely on DCUM and nowhere else.


This is the correct response. OP, this is a colossal waste of your time. JR doesn’t care and is mot going to do anything about this, regardless of what you think or how you feel.


if JR doesn’t care, why were they doing home visits last summer?

It’s true that lying about living in a different DC zone is different from living in MD. But lying about your address on school enrollment forms is a type of fraud regardless.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 11:24     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Whenever this type of thread comes up, most reasonable people express sympathy for the kids involved and prefer to place their best interests above that of the scheming parents.
And then the inevitable retort on the part of the OP and co is that all these posters must be immoral and probably commit fraud themselves. This is so predictable.

OP, I really hope that someone calls you out when you do something the least bit wrong. Busybodies like you don't even realize that you hold others to standards that you might not hold for yourself. No one is perfect. Everyone breaks the rules in different ways. You are the type of person who will always find excuses for your own rule-breaking, but never excuse it in others.


So basically you endorse people breaking rules for their own benefit

newsflash to the boundary cheats: you can cheat, you can probably get away with it, but you cannot stop people from judging you as a lying cheat. And some will report you. FAFO.


PP you replied to. As this thread shows (and multiple ones before it), most people don't judge that hard. It's only you and a very small minority who can muster up enough hate. Morally, I think you are in the wrong to be so punitive. There are rules and rules. Some rules aren't that important. Some rules are extremely important. Being rigid and inflexible and not knowing which is which is bad. Not good. And again, it's not like you have some sort of moral high ground. I'm sure that when you skirt the rules, you tell yourself you have very good reasons to do so, and absolve yourself any blame!




This actually is an important rule. And if you break the rule (because you narcissistically believe you are entitled to lie to get what everyone else goes through great efforts to get legally) then you sign up for the consequences. You don’t get to be a cheater and also castigate people for being immoral for calling you out on your cheating.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 11:21     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Anonymous wrote:OP here... I'm finding this all highly entertaining that I've gotten so many of you so worked up yet you're worried about the energy I'm wasting on this. To the person saving their MySchoolDC emails worried about "people like me"... my child also attends an out-of-boundary school "in the fancy part of town" - a spot that earned through the lottery as well. I am well aware that there are perfectly legitimate ways to attend a school outside of your boundary school. What I didn't like most about how this family handled things was the child and family walked around loudly telling everyone that they won a lottery spot to Jackson Reed, as if the data on whether that has happened at that school isn't publicly available to all. I know plenty of folks who have gamed the system, never thinking that I needed to report a thing, as I don't have the holier-than-thou attitude that you all think I do. It was this particular situation and this family's boldness that made me want to speak up. And to an early poster who asked if I want them to see this... well, I highly doubt they're on this forum, but yes I would definitely love them to know that they've spent years telling the same boldface lie but they didn't fool everyone.


You seem to be assuming the student is doing this to brag or be arrogant, but the much more likely reason is that the student is worried/insecure about their situation and dealing with it in an immature/unsophisticated way. You have turned something that the kid is doing (or that your kid is telling you the kid is doing—so, secondhand teenage scuttlebutt) into the family being bold and arrogant. That says a lot more about you than it does about the kid and their family.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:36     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Boundary Crusader and fans strike me as consumed w/jealousy that there are UMC families who can afford more than one residential property in DC. They're all worked about how a vacation rental can work as an in-boundary address or something, at least part of the time. Yawn. Come on, DCPS has infinitely bigger problems that aren't being addressed.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:19     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Exactly. The Boundary Crusader is spinning their wheels. Good.
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:17     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?

It's exhausting how we need to go through this every few months with a Boundary Crusader who doesn't understand that some families have every right to be where they are, and aren't going to tell you the details.

Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 10:12     Subject: Can someone give me the number to call to report boundary fraud?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If the kid lives in DC and the school has approved their residency paperwork in some capacity, there is basically no remedy.

If the kid lives OUTSIDE DC, https://dc-osse-oer.i-sight.com/portal


Thank you for answering and not being a dick like everyone else.

To the others, the only number I could find of Google was for residency fraud, not boundary fraud. I thought I’d seen a number posted on here in the past so when I couldn’t find an answer on my own I thought I’d ask. Sorry to disappoint and imply I’m some weirdo who gets off on asking a question for reasons other than getting an answer. I’ve been reading this board for 13+ years and always thought most people didn’t support boundary fraud. Guess morals on this have gone the same way as the rest of the morals on this country.


The reason you only found a number for residency fraud is that "boundary fraud" in the context of DCPS exists solely on DCUM and nowhere else.


This is the correct response. OP, this is a colossal waste of your time. JR doesn’t care and is mot going to do anything about this, regardless of what you think or how you feel.