I'm sensitive to families going through that issue or any kind of issue (and I'm not one of the PPs). But if the kid is living with an IB grandparent, why is an out of state parent doing the drop off? That's what I never understand about these endless debates and convenient explanations. "Oh, the kid lives with one parent in-bounds, but the other parent lives in Maryland, and that parent does the drop off and pickup 4 days out of 5." Why would you consistently be seeing the Maryland parent do the drop off? If the kid is actually living with the Maryland relative almost every night of the week, then they aren't actually "living" IB.

Well, that's a very letter of the law approach. A spirit of the law approach would note that it would be disruptive for the child, the class, and the school community to force a child to disenroll every time they have a temporary placement with a relative. Can you imagine? A family in crisis, a parent incarcerated (but with a release date) and school authorities knocking at the door to be 100% sure that the child is sleeping at the "right" house 51% of the time?

I think these discussions often get caught up in race and class, so let's flip the script.

Audrey is an 8 year-old 3rd grader at Janney. Her dad is on a 12-month unaccompanied posting with the World Bank when her mom goes into pre-term labor and is hospitalized for six weeks of monitoring and bedrest.

During that time, she stays with her grandmother in Chevy Chase, who drops her off at Janney every morning for those six weeks.

Would it have been better for Audrey to have disenrolled from her home school, with her friends and neighors and her Brownie troop? Or was it better to bend the rules just a tad so that a child already having a hard time doesn't also have to navigate a brand new school for what was known to be a short interlude?

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Anonymous wrote:A big question for me is what this does to schools in PG County? We are considering moving out there but it is not exactly filling us with confidence to learn that many families who live there send their kids to DC schools. Doesn't this undermine those school communities too?

Maryland is laughing all the way to the bank! They save a ton of $$$ every time a student goes to DCPS.

Don't worry, there are DC kids up in MoCo schools. Maybe it is a wash.

Anonymous wrote:A big question for me is what this does to schools in PG County? We are considering moving out there but it is not exactly filling us with confidence to learn that many families who live there send their kids to DC schools. Doesn't this undermine those school communities too?

Maryland is laughing all the way to the bank! They save a ton of $$$ every time a student goes to DCPS.

A big question for me is what this does to schools in PG County? We are considering moving out there but it is not exactly filling us with confidence to learn that many families who live there send their kids to DC schools. Doesn't this undermine those school communities too?

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Anonymous wrote:Most often it's just PLAIN FRAUD for the convenience of parents commuting to DC. Who believes all these "dog ate my homework" excuses.

I mean, have your kids ever had a parent incarcerated? In rehab? Have your kids ever been in foster care? Kinship care? Informal family care due to a crisis?

Have you ever worked a shift job that wasn't, like, doctor or intelligence analyst?

Have you been to the Maury district? Because those people don’t live there.

I wondered how long it would take to get a "those people" on this thread. The answer is 24 hours almost to the minute.

I don’t know what to tell you. We don’t have folks where one parent is in jail, etc. Sorry to ruin your narrative that there are excuses for Maryland plates.

I'm sorry, but you are really ignorant. Maury absolutely does have families like that. My son had a classmate whose parent was in jail for a year. Kid lived with his grandma who was IB, and other parent lived in MD.

+1 to the previous posters who pointed out that many kids don't have stable homes, and I appreciate DCPS and schools using judgment to create a safe place for students.

Many OOB students come in the upper grades (when many students bail for charters), or in any grade where they need to open enrollment to justify adding a whole classroom, thereby reducing class size overall--a benefit to all students.

Maury also has had its parking lot reduced significantly recently to make more playground space, and is utilizing street parking for teachers. This may be another reason for lots of MD plates.

It's in all of our best interests for kids to have stable lives and good educations. MYOB and let the people who are paid to worry about this do their jobs.

I'm sensitive to families going through that issue or any kind of issue (and I'm not one of the PPs). But if the kid is living with an IB grandparent, why is an out of state parent doing the drop off? That's what I never understand about these endless debates and convenient explanations. "Oh, the kid lives with one parent in-bounds, but the other parent lives in Maryland, and that parent does the drop off and pickup 4 days out of 5." Why would you consistently be seeing the Maryland parent do the drop off? If the kid is actually living with the Maryland relative almost every night of the week, then they aren't actually "living" IB.

Anonymous wrote:I find this whole thread confusing. We lived very close to Maury up until a couple of years ago. If there were any “MD plates” they weren’t enough for me ever to notice. I think someone is trying to stir up trouble.

(That said, my personal view is that the rules are the rules and, yes, if you live in bounds you should have the right to attend the local school over an OOB kid with some historic family ties. Your plans for MS and HS are irrelevant to this Q).

If you lived close to Maury (you don't say that you were a parent) and didn't see Maryland plates, you have blinders on. Constitution Ave WB in the morning is ALL Maryland plates. Parents waiting at drop off and pickup because of the covid rules and spacing would notice whether or not those Maryland plates are stopping and dropping kids off or picking them up.

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Anonymous wrote:Most often it's just PLAIN FRAUD for the convenience of parents commuting to DC. Who believes all these "dog ate my homework" excuses.

I mean, have your kids ever had a parent incarcerated? In rehab? Have your kids ever been in foster care? Kinship care? Informal family care due to a crisis?

Have you ever worked a shift job that wasn't, like, doctor or intelligence analyst?

Have you been to the Maury district? Because those people don’t live there.

I wondered how long it would take to get a "those people" on this thread. The answer is 24 hours almost to the minute.

I don’t know what to tell you. We don’t have folks where one parent is in jail, etc. Sorry to ruin your narrative that there are excuses for Maryland plates.

I'm sorry, but you are really ignorant. Maury absolutely does have families like that. My son had a classmate whose parent was in jail for a year. Kid lived with his grandma who was IB, and other parent lived in MD.

+1 to the previous posters who pointed out that many kids don't have stable homes, and I appreciate DCPS and schools using judgment to create a safe place for students.

Many OOB students come in the upper grades (when many students bail for charters), or in any grade where they need to open enrollment to justify adding a whole classroom, thereby reducing class size overall--a benefit to all students.

Maury also has had its parking lot reduced significantly recently to make more playground space, and is utilizing street parking for teachers. This may be another reason for lots of MD plates.

It's in all of our best interests for kids to have stable lives and good educations. MYOB and let the people who are paid to worry about this do their jobs.

That’s a kid who should be attending school in MARYLAND.

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Anonymous wrote:In some cases the neighborhood versus non-neighborhood school is tricky. A case in point is JO Wilson versus Two Rivers 4th. I'd bet that Two Rivers is more of a "neighborhood" school than JO Wilson, since most of JO is coming from OOB (including MD it appears), while I see legions of Two Rivers families walking to school each morning.

Maybe SWS is similar, but I can't speak from experience on that one.

I have seen zero Maryland plates at SWS drop off.

When is the last time your vision was checked?

I’m there every day and I have seen zero. Many many MD plates headed to two rivers.

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Anonymous wrote:Most often it's just PLAIN FRAUD for the convenience of parents commuting to DC. Who believes all these "dog ate my homework" excuses.

I mean, have your kids ever had a parent incarcerated? In rehab? Have your kids ever been in foster care? Kinship care? Informal family care due to a crisis?

Have you ever worked a shift job that wasn't, like, doctor or intelligence analyst?

Have you been to the Maury district? Because those people don’t live there.

I wondered how long it would take to get a "those people" on this thread. The answer is 24 hours almost to the minute.

I don’t know what to tell you. We don’t have folks where one parent is in jail, etc. Sorry to ruin your narrative that there are excuses for Maryland plates.

I'm sorry, but you are really ignorant. Maury absolutely does have families like that. My son had a classmate whose parent was in jail for a year. Kid lived with his grandma who was IB, and other parent lived in MD.

+1 to the previous posters who pointed out that many kids don't have stable homes, and I appreciate DCPS and schools using judgment to create a safe place for students.

Many OOB students come in the upper grades (when many students bail for charters), or in any grade where they need to open enrollment to justify adding a whole classroom, thereby reducing class size overall--a benefit to all students.

Maury also has had its parking lot reduced significantly recently to make more playground space, and is utilizing street parking for teachers. This may be another reason for lots of MD plates.

It's in all of our best interests for kids to have stable lives and good educations. MYOB and let the people who are paid to worry about this do their jobs.

Anonymous wrote:Maryland tags do not equal FRAUD!!! How many times do we have to state this. If ONE person is DC resident, it’s not fraud!

Also, I think people don't realize how many people in that area have nannies. And most nannies can't afford to live in DC. Seriously. (Our nanny has VA plates, but you get the idea...)

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Anonymous wrote:Most often it's just PLAIN FRAUD for the convenience of parents commuting to DC. Who believes all these "dog ate my homework" excuses.

I mean, have your kids ever had a parent incarcerated? In rehab? Have your kids ever been in foster care? Kinship care? Informal family care due to a crisis?

Have you ever worked a shift job that wasn't, like, doctor or intelligence analyst?

Have you been to the Maury district? Because those people don’t live there.

I wondered how long it would take to get a "those people" on this thread. The answer is 24 hours almost to the minute.

I don’t know what to tell you. We don’t have folks where one parent is in jail, etc. Sorry to ruin your narrative that there are excuses for Maryland plates.

Are you a Maury parent? I’m kind of embarrassed for you.

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Anonymous wrote:In some cases the neighborhood versus non-neighborhood school is tricky. A case in point is JO Wilson versus Two Rivers 4th. I'd bet that Two Rivers is more of a "neighborhood" school than JO Wilson, since most of JO is coming from OOB (including MD it appears), while I see legions of Two Rivers families walking to school each morning.

Maybe SWS is similar, but I can't speak from experience on that one.

I have seen zero Maryland plates at SWS drop off.

When is the last time your vision was checked?

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Anonymous wrote:Most often it's just PLAIN FRAUD for the convenience of parents commuting to DC. Who believes all these "dog ate my homework" excuses.

I mean, have your kids ever had a parent incarcerated? In rehab? Have your kids ever been in foster care? Kinship care? Informal family care due to a crisis?

Have you ever worked a shift job that wasn't, like, doctor or intelligence analyst?

Have you been to the Maury district? Because those people don’t live there.

I wondered how long it would take to get a "those people" on this thread. The answer is 24 hours almost to the minute.

I don’t know what to tell you. We don’t have folks where one parent is in jail, etc. Sorry to ruin your narrative that there are excuses for Maryland plates.

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Anonymous wrote:Most often it's just PLAIN FRAUD for the convenience of parents commuting to DC. Who believes all these "dog ate my homework" excuses.

I mean, have your kids ever had a parent incarcerated? In rehab? Have your kids ever been in foster care? Kinship care? Informal family care due to a crisis?

Have you ever worked a shift job that wasn't, like, doctor or intelligence analyst?

Have you been to the Maury district? Because those people don’t live there.

I wondered how long it would take to get a "those people" on this thread. The answer is 24 hours almost to the minute.

Anonymous wrote:In some cases the neighborhood versus non-neighborhood school is tricky. A case in point is JO Wilson versus Two Rivers 4th. I'd bet that Two Rivers is more of a "neighborhood" school than JO Wilson, since most of JO is coming from OOB (including MD it appears), while I see legions of Two Rivers families walking to school each morning.

Maybe SWS is similar, but I can't speak from experience on that one.

I have seen zero Maryland plates at SWS drop off.