We enrolled at Whitman in 9th grade. Had to provide property tax bill and a couple of other things. Also had to provide the middle school transcript. In our case it was from private school but if the transcript is from a Churchill feeder middle school I'm sure they would double check the other documents. At the high school level, at least at Whitman, the number of kids enrolling from outside the system in each year is pretty manageable, and the desire to be in the school high, so they aren't going to be overlooking the requirements.

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Anonymous wrote:I was asked to provide two forms of proof of residence, a bank statement and a utility bill. A rental lease, a property tax bill or a sale contract on a residence will do.
If the oarents are from a foreign country, a valid visa is also required. Additionally, the parents also needto provide the visa, job proof from employer, health insurance, immunization records. I helped someone from other country to register their kid to attend mcps, the amount of paper work required by mcps was ridiculous!

That cannot possibly be true. The Supreme Court has ruled that children of undocumented immigrants cannot be excluded from public school. And proof of job? Kids whose parents are unemployed can't go to school?

Agree with this PP. There is NO WAY that is true. Especially here in MoCo. We're in a high FARMs/high ESOL school and there are quite a few undocumented parents. There is no way the school requires job proof and all that other info.

I posted before, but we did not have to provide ANY documentation to enroll our kids in MCPS. But, we're also not in a W cluster, so the rules may be different across the county.

Do you really think that the rules are different for W schools? MCPS is one district. The rules are the same throughout the county. For the last time, W schools are not "better" than non W schools. It's just the population that the W schools are comprised of are majority affluent and white. If the residents of Bethesda and Potomac all moved to Wheaton, then Kennedy would be perceived as "better" than Wootton, Whitman, Churchill and WJ.

Here's the documents which can be used to enroll: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/enroll/proofs.aspx
I certainly had to go through this twice now and have seen this list printed up on orientation fliers, etc. It's possible some school, some time, didn't verify documents but it is district policy and I'd assume that was a fluke (or more likely simply forgotten by the parent who was enrolling at their home school and spent more time finding an immunization record than a utility bill).

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Anonymous wrote:I was asked to provide two forms of proof of residence, a bank statement and a utility bill. A rental lease, a property tax bill or a sale contract on a residence will do.
If the oarents are from a foreign country, a valid visa is also required. Additionally, the parents also needto provide the visa, job proof from employer, health insurance, immunization records. I helped someone from other country to register their kid to attend mcps, the amount of paper work required by mcps was ridiculous!

That cannot possibly be true. The Supreme Court has ruled that children of undocumented immigrants cannot be excluded from public school. And proof of job? Kids whose parents are unemployed can't go to school?

Agree with this PP. There is NO WAY that is true. Especially here in MoCo. We're in a high FARMs/high ESOL school and there are quite a few undocumented parents. There is no way the school requires job proof and all that other info.

I posted before, but we did not have to provide ANY documentation to enroll our kids in MCPS. But, we're also not in a W cluster, so the rules may be different across the county.

Do you really think that the rules are different for W schools? MCPS is one district. The rules are the same throughout the county. For the last time, W schools are not "better" than non W schools. It's just the population that the W schools are comprised of are majority affluent and white. If the residents of Bethesda and Potomac all moved to Wheaton, then Kennedy would be perceived as "better" than Wootton, Whitman, Churchill and WJ.

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Anonymous wrote:I was asked to provide two forms of proof of residence, a bank statement and a utility bill. A rental lease, a property tax bill or a sale contract on a residence will do.
If the oarents are from a foreign country, a valid visa is also required. Additionally, the parents also needto provide the visa, job proof from employer, health insurance, immunization records. I helped someone from other country to register their kid to attend mcps, the amount of paper work required by mcps was ridiculous!

That cannot possibly be true. The Supreme Court has ruled that children of undocumented immigrants cannot be excluded from public school. And proof of job? Kids whose parents are unemployed can't go to school?

Agree with this PP. There is NO WAY that is true. Especially here in MoCo. We're in a high FARMs/high ESOL school and there are quite a few undocumented parents. There is no way the school requires job proof and all that other info.

I posted before, but we did not have to provide ANY documentation to enroll our kids in MCPS. But, we're also not in a W cluster, so the rules may be different across the county.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm kind of stunned at the PP who is posting "NBD" about all the families she knows who are blatantly breaking the law.

Where do you draw the line, PP? "I know red means stop, but I'm in a hurry and it's NBD." "I know I should pay for this meal, but the service kind of sucked, so NBD."

I'm confident the NBD poster is feeling okay because the residency cheaters are the "right" sort of cheaters. They...blend in, you know?

I'm the NBD poster, and I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. What is a 'right' sort of cheater. If you read my previous post, you'll see that I totally disagree with this, but I really don't think there's much the school can do about it.

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Anonymous wrote:I was once signing in to volunteer at my child's ES zoned for Frost and Wootton. A family was signing up their non-English speaking son and daughter to attend the school and was acting like they just won the lottery when the school accepted their registration without asking for any documentation. Yeah, I'm sure they were zoned for my school. Pisses me off!

Ummm it was most likely a different reason. But sorry there's a non-English speaker sullying your pristine school. You need to get out of your bubble. You piss me off.

I know what I saw. They were literally jumping up and down celebrating.

Believe it or not, not everyone lives in your DCUM bubble and cares about W schools. People from other countries, especially poverty stricken ones, are happy to be getting a free education. Period. Not jumping up and down that they get to share a building with your snowflake.

Anonymous wrote:What is OP teaching her child by doing this? That the ends justifies the means, that cheating is ok if it's for a good cause, like education or convenience. What's next? Academic cheating, cheating on taxes,... anything else? As long as it doesn't hurt anyone, right?

Not sure the OP ever said she had any intention of cheating - it's other PPs suggesting that. The OP just asked if it's possible to go to a different school than she's zoned for.

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Anonymous wrote:I was once signing in to volunteer at my child's ES zoned for Frost and Wootton. A family was signing up their non-English speaking son and daughter to attend the school and was acting like they just won the lottery when the school accepted their registration without asking for any documentation. Yeah, I'm sure they were zoned for my school. Pisses me off!

Ummm it was most likely a different reason. But sorry there's a non-English speaker sullying your pristine school. You need to get out of your bubble. You piss me off.

I know what I saw. They were literally jumping up and down celebrating.

Anonymous wrote:I was once signing in to volunteer at my child's ES zoned for Frost and Wootton. A family was signing up their non-English speaking son and daughter to attend the school and was acting like they just won the lottery when the school accepted their registration without asking for any documentation. Yeah, I'm sure they were zoned for my school. Pisses me off!

Ummm it was most likely a different reason. But sorry there's a non-English speaker sullying your pristine school. You need to get out of your bubble. You piss me off.

I was once signing in to volunteer at my child's ES zoned for Frost and Wootton. A family was signing up their non-English speaking son and daughter to attend the school and was acting like they just won the lottery when the school accepted their registration without asking for any documentation. Yeah, I'm sure they were zoned for my school. Pisses me off!

What is OP teaching her child by doing this? That the ends justifies the means, that cheating is ok if it's for a good cause, like education or convenience. What's next? Academic cheating, cheating on taxes,... anything else? As long as it doesn't hurt anyone, right?

Anonymous wrote:I was asked to provide two forms of proof of residence, a bank statement and a utility bill. A rental lease, a property tax bill or a sale contract on a residence will do.
If the oarents are from a foreign country, a valid visa is also required. Additionally, the parents also needto provide the visa, job proof from employer, health insurance, immunization records. I helped someone from other country to register their kid to attend mcps, the amount of paper work required by mcps was ridiculous!

That cannot possibly be true. The Supreme Court has ruled that children of undocumented immigrants cannot be excluded from public school. And proof of job? Kids whose parents are unemployed can't go to school?