Anonymous wrote:I actually know many divorced parents where one parent lives in the District and the other lives in MD. Depending on where the kid is the prior evening, sometimes you see a MD tag dropping off.

Ok. Great! So, once their investigated it'll be determined that they're not cheaters (as long as the custodial parent is a DC res.). People keep posting this BS about divorcees, grandparents etc... as a reason for people having Maryland tags and the greater reason to discourage investigation. What should happen is investigations move forward. If there is no cheating- no harm, no foul. I, for one, would go a step further and sign a doc stating I'm okay with being investigated and for random audits. Folks who get all ACLU-ish would be (rightfully) be a red flag, which would help out folks with greater ease. If you're not cheating, you shouldn't fight the investigations. Real simple math, here!

I actually know many divorced parents where one parent lives in the District and the other lives in MD. Depending on where the kid is the prior evening, sometimes you see a MD tag dropping off.

Anonymous wrote:There is a legal way to do this-- if there are spots available (i.e. no waitlist), then people outside of DC can pay tuition for their child to attend a DCPS or charter.

However, address cheating is rampant at certain schools, and there seems to be little effort to stop it.

I don't think any charters take OOB students, just DCPS.

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't it help the school to bring the situation to light, keep the kids in school and they charge tuition? Especially is it is correct that the charges for this can be as low as $500/year. It seems that would help the school and not look unfavorable to dcps.

I think it's more like $12,000 to $14,000 per year. Where did you get you $500/year figure?

ooops, sorry for all the typos!

Wouldn't it help the school to bring the situation to light, keep the kids in school and they charge tuition? Especially is it is correct that the charges for this can be as low as $500/year. It seems that would help the school and not look unfavorable to dcps.

But keep in mind that schools are, in large part a numbers game. Principals get evaluation scores based on how much they can grow enrollment and grow schools. The admin team knows about it, trust me. Its ward 7, no one is clamoring to get into our schools here. DC would rather have (OOB) numbers to show that they are not losing kids to charters. It is a different world over here!

Please let someone know...speaking from personal experience in my neighborhood (cap hill) even the 'not great' schools don't have room for all IB students to get in for PS/PK. How is a 'not great' school supposed to get better if it can't enforce simple rules. Depending on the situation, hopefully the kid you speak of should be able to stay, with a payment plan worked out with the parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I think OP is a troll. No one would send their dc to school in DC if they lived in Virginia.

+1
We live in NOVA and MOCO for a reason. The schools!
I love these delusional posts about all the suburbanites sneaking over the border to attend DCPS. Please, save your comments about all the wonderful charters. They are simply a band -aid to stem the bleeding of a woefully inadequate school system.

I do not agree. I teach in a DCPS school, and not even a 'great' one. People come from MD and VA because 1. parents work in DC and 2. Aftercare costs are dirt cheap, compared to available options outside the district. I have a kiddo who openly talks, daily about taking the metro from MD everyday and that is why he gets to school late. If I thought anyone cared, I would say something. But they don't. We (the school) still gets money for him- so everyone is content to leave well enough alone.

Please -- if you see or know something, you should say something. On some level, this cheating is taking resources from DC kids who are underserved. Perhaps it is a slot in a school that is oversubscribed in the lottery. Even if not, resources are being allocated to or for these kids that could be better directed somewhere else -- for library books, lab equipment, tutoring, higher salaries, etc. Plus the taxpayers are being fleeced. For to long the DC Way was "go along, to get along." We're better than than!

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Anonymous wrote:I think OP is a troll. No one would send their dc to school in DC if they lived in Virginia.

+1
We live in NOVA and MOCO for a reason. The schools!
I love these delusional posts about all the suburbanites sneaking over the border to attend DCPS. Please, save your comments about all the wonderful charters. They are simply a band -aid to stem the bleeding of a woefully inadequate school system.

I do not agree. I teach in a DCPS school, and not even a 'great' one. People come from MD and VA because 1. parents work in DC and 2. Aftercare costs are dirt cheap, compared to available options outside the district. I have a kiddo who openly talks, daily about taking the metro from MD everyday and that is why he gets to school late. If I thought anyone cared, I would say something. But they don't. We (the school) still gets money for him- so everyone is content to leave well enough alone.

You need to do more than report the car/tag. Use the online system to report it directly to the charter board or to DCPs headquarters. I did it and am currently working on reporting another family.

Some school will not take the time stand outside and figure out what car you report and what kid is getting out of the car. At my school, the adults are overseeing the kids once they come into the school.

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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.

Why don't you report them?

Are you joking? DC residents have been attending Prince George's County Schools for YEARS. LOL that you are such a johnny come lately as evidenced by your naivete -- life in the post-Rhee era. Now DCPS is sought after after being a complete disgrace for years.

We see DC tags pulling up to our highly rated elementary schools EVERY DAY. We see students waiting for the metro buses outside our middle schools that will ferry them back to DC. I'm sure you JKLMM parents think all DCPS is SO much better than any PG County, but step outside your white people world PUH-LEASE!

Maryland residents have been letting DC residents do it for decades. They have and they are getting away with it.

I'm too new to DC to know if this is true or not, but one thing is true regardless: even if PG did allow DC residents to attend their schools, those parents not raising a ruckus doesn't take away DC parents' rights to make a ruckus. I have never tried to game a school system and I will report every single car I see at my school (already have reported a few that I see almost every day).

Anonymous wrote: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!

If you buy a car in Maryland you get temp. Maryland tags, until your dc tags come. duh smh

Anonymous wrote:A MD got kicked out of our DCPS school last week. 3 kids at our school, where in boundary children are wait listed in preschool. the whole family was well dressed- the parents were professionals. Oh, and the 4 year old was mean to my 4 year old. I do feel sorry for the kids of the family, but it is not right.

I wonder how many PG residents are at Hobson. I'd like my OOB son to go there in a couple years, and we pay a lot of taxes in DC!

Hoping that a few kids that I reported will be kicked out of a charter soon.

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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.

Why don't you report them?

Are you joking? DC residents have been attending Prince George's County Schools for YEARS. LOL that you are such a johnny come lately as evidenced by your naivete -- life in the post-Rhee era. Now DCPS is sought after after being a complete disgrace for years.

We see DC tags pulling up to our highly rated elementary schools EVERY DAY. We see students waiting for the metro buses outside our middle schools that will ferry them back to DC. I'm sure you JKLMM parents think all DCPS is SO much better than any PG County, but step outside your white people world PUH-LEASE!

Maryland residents have been letting DC residents do it for decades. They have and they are getting away with it.