Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 11:35     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
Anonymous wrote:THe other day one of the kids in my sons class said, "We moved to Bowie!" He was very excited, and went on about the move. I can only assume that either one parent still lives in DC, which is possible; or they are using a friend or family member's address in DC. But, I'm certainly not going to report them. I think it is sad on the one hand that people are living a lie - that's it - they are living a lie (like these men who have two families in the same town!). It must be hard, but they should not break the law like this.



You're just a troll trying to discourage people from doing the right thing. Karma- that's all I have to say. I hope others who read this won't be influenced. Sometimes it hurts to do the right thing, but there are people with the dignity and values to do exactly that. Sorry, you're not one of those people. Hope your kids won't follow your poor example.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 11:27     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:THe other day one of the kids in my sons class said, "We moved to Bowie!" He was very excited, and went on about the move. I can only assume that either one parent still lives in DC, which is possible; or they are using a friend or family member's address in DC. But, I'm certainly not going to report them. I think it is sad on the one hand that people are living a lie - that's it - they are living a lie (like these men who have two families in the same town!). It must be hard, but they should not break the law like this.



"But I'm certainly not going to report them". I mean my kid is covered. They're in. Too bad for the other DC resident kids that are effed waiting on waitlists. My kid is taken care of, so who cares about residency cheaters. Sorry to all the DC kids that have their chance stolen. Sucks to be you!
Sounds like they moved mid-school year.
Let's kick them out and force him to start a new school right now, in the middle of the school year! Great idea folks.


+1 The hell with little Lucy who's not able to attend because little Johnny stole her seat.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 11:25     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
Anonymous wrote:Here's what I'd like to see: a congressional hearing in the House Oversight subcommittee with jurisdction over the District of Columbia about the address cheating epidemic. The Council and DCPS has been ineffective and apathetic. Clearly, a heavier hand is needed.


I really hoping you are exaggerating. If a second of congressional time is wasted on this false problem, I would be incredibly pissed off.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 11:24     Subject: How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
OP,

One of the parents might live in DC with MD tags, park off-street so as not to get tickets.

Really OP it's the middle of the school year!
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 11:23     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:THe other day one of the kids in my sons class said, "We moved to Bowie!" He was very excited, and went on about the move. I can only assume that either one parent still lives in DC, which is possible; or they are using a friend or family member's address in DC. But, I'm certainly not going to report them. I think it is sad on the one hand that people are living a lie - that's it - they are living a lie (like these men who have two families in the same town!). It must be hard, but they should not break the law like this.



"But I'm certainly not going to report them". I mean my kid is covered. They're in. Too bad for the other DC resident kids that are effed waiting on waitlists. My kid is taken care of, so who cares about residency cheaters. Sorry to all the DC kids that have their chance stolen. Sucks to be you!


Would you report the family after hearing the conversation from the boy - a boy that you have known for some time? What if I reported the family and it turns out that his dad lives in DC? I have no idea if it is anonymous to report someone but I'm not going to report this incident. I would feel ridiculous to go the principal and say, "Oh, little Johnny over there just mentioend that he moved to Bowie. I think you should make sure that he is really a resident now." The teachers heard the conversation also. I think if he truly is not a resident then someone will turn them in.


You should feel ridiculous- goofball! That's not how reporting works. It's not rocket science- you call the OSSE and post anonymously. They take it from there. You cheaters are trying to make the process seem really hard to turn people off. It's not!!
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 11:23     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
Anonymous wrote:I think the main offenders are residents of PG County who work in DC near the schools that their kids fraudulently attend. I have to believe that the home of a family that would do this (place their child in a setting where they have to lie everyday about something as fundamental as where they live) would be so dysfunctional as to be broken beyond repair. So many kids projects and homework revolve around describing or relating something about your neighborhood to some school lesson objective. In elementary school these kind of assignments are constent: "draw a map of your neighbor hood street" "how long does it take you to get to school" "how do you get to school? What is your route" and so on. The kid could lie, but eventually it would be so toxic and destructive to a kid's sense of who and his security--the kid would be a basket-case. So sad.
It sounds like every single kid now has to memorize his neighborhood map, the exact route to school, etc.

I am an elementary school teacher, and I have never seen any teacher assign a single project like this, let alone use it in the curriculum all year.

Also, where people live is not exactly a big part of a student's academic life.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 11:19     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:THe other day one of the kids in my sons class said, "We moved to Bowie!" He was very excited, and went on about the move. I can only assume that either one parent still lives in DC, which is possible; or they are using a friend or family member's address in DC. But, I'm certainly not going to report them. I think it is sad on the one hand that people are living a lie - that's it - they are living a lie (like these men who have two families in the same town!). It must be hard, but they should not break the law like this.



"But I'm certainly not going to report them". I mean my kid is covered. They're in. Too bad for the other DC resident kids that are effed waiting on waitlists. My kid is taken care of, so who cares about residency cheaters. Sorry to all the DC kids that have their chance stolen. Sucks to be you!
Sounds like they moved mid-school year.
Let's kick them out and force him to start a new school right now, in the middle of the school year! Great idea folks.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 11:17     Subject: How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
I remember the day that an OOS student would be worshiped because most people out of state knew exactly how awful DCPS was.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 09:41     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:THe other day one of the kids in my sons class said, "We moved to Bowie!" He was very excited, and went on about the move. I can only assume that either one parent still lives in DC, which is possible; or they are using a friend or family member's address in DC. But, I'm certainly not going to report them. I think it is sad on the one hand that people are living a lie - that's it - they are living a lie (like these men who have two families in the same town!). It must be hard, but they should not break the law like this.



"But I'm certainly not going to report them". I mean my kid is covered. They're in. Too bad for the other DC resident kids that are effed waiting on waitlists. My kid is taken care of, so who cares about residency cheaters. Sorry to all the DC kids that have their chance stolen. Sucks to be you!


Would you report the family after hearing the conversation from the boy - a boy that you have known for some time? What if I reported the family and it turns out that his dad lives in DC? I have no idea if it is anonymous to report someone but I'm not going to report this incident. I would feel ridiculous to go the principal and say, "Oh, little Johnny over there just mentioend that he moved to Bowie. I think you should make sure that he is really a resident now." The teachers heard the conversation also. I think if he truly is not a resident then someone will turn them in.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 09:36     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
Anonymous wrote:THe other day one of the kids in my sons class said, "We moved to Bowie!" He was very excited, and went on about the move. I can only assume that either one parent still lives in DC, which is possible; or they are using a friend or family member's address in DC. But, I'm certainly not going to report them. I think it is sad on the one hand that people are living a lie - that's it - they are living a lie (like these men who have two families in the same town!). It must be hard, but they should not break the law like this.



"But I'm certainly not going to report them". I mean my kid is covered. They're in. Too bad for the other DC resident kids that are effed waiting on waitlists. My kid is taken care of, so who cares about residency cheaters. Sorry to all the DC kids that have their chance stolen. Sucks to be you!
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 09:11     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
Also, in the past people would FLEE from DC as soon as they were just THINKING about having kids. But, now people are chosing to stay in DC. In the past DC welcomed non-DC residents because everyone was leaving the city with their kids, so they needed to have some kids. NOW it is a problem because people want their kids to attend DC schools. DCPS need to catch up with this wave and try to get DC kids into their schools ONLY.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 09:09     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
THe other day one of the kids in my sons class said, "We moved to Bowie!" He was very excited, and went on about the move. I can only assume that either one parent still lives in DC, which is possible; or they are using a friend or family member's address in DC. But, I'm certainly not going to report them. I think it is sad on the one hand that people are living a lie - that's it - they are living a lie (like these men who have two families in the same town!). It must be hard, but they should not break the law like this.

Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 06:57     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
ugh. the only way i would even consider making a report is if there were a more than few families who i were pretty sure were guilty of doing this at a school. but even then i am not sure i would do it. i would never feel comfortable outing just one family, though.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 00:40     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
Anonymous wrote:I think the main offenders are residents of PG County who work in DC near the schools that their kids fraudulently attend. I have to believe that the home of a family that would do this (place their child in a setting where they have to lie everyday about something as fundamental as where they live) would be so dysfunctional as to be broken beyond repair. So many kids projects and homework revolve around describing or relating something about your neighborhood to some school lesson objective. In elementary school these kind of assignments are constent: "draw a map of your neighbor hood street" "how long does it take you to get to school" "how do you get to school? What is your route" and so on. The kid could lie, but eventually it would be so toxic and destructive to a kid's sense of who and his security--the kid would be a basket-case. So sad.


meant to type "constant".
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2013 00:38     Subject: Re:How to Report Out of State DCPS student?
I think the main offenders are residents of PG County who work in DC near the schools that their kids fraudulently attend. I have to believe that the home of a family that would do this (place their child in a setting where they have to lie everyday about something as fundamental as where they live) would be so dysfunctional as to be broken beyond repair. So many kids projects and homework revolve around describing or relating something about your neighborhood to some school lesson objective. In elementary school these kind of assignments are constent: "draw a map of your neighbor hood street" "how long does it take you to get to school" "how do you get to school? What is your route" and so on. The kid could lie, but eventually it would be so toxic and destructive to a kid's sense of who and his security--the kid would be a basket-case. So sad.