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Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

Not true. We both teach for MCPS. To register my child, MCPS required proof of address including utility bills. When we moved from one address to another less than a half mile away, MCPS required we submit new proofs of address. Oddly, we simply filled out a form from the internet to change our address as MCPS employees.

+1 I just registered my kid for kindergarten in MCPS. We had to show paystubs with our address, recent utility bills (we had to go back a second time, because they rejected one of our utility bills because it wasn't sufficiently recent). We also showed our property tax statement. It wasn't like you just show up with your kid in September and they take them.

Maybe it differs based on cluster.

We are in a MCPS Focus school. I'm sure many posters on here would not be happy with our school, but we're surrounded by some even higher poverty schools, so we have a good number of kids who attend our school, but do not live in boundary.

FWIW, it is well known at our school that there is a huge rush in September. Every year, a bunch of kids shows up the week before school starts and the school HAS TO let them in. There's not really much effort put into verifying residency.

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

Not true. We both teach for MCPS. To register my child, MCPS required proof of address including utility bills. When we moved from one address to another less than a half mile away, MCPS required we submit new proofs of address. Oddly, we simply filled out a form from the internet to change our address as MCPS employees.

+1 I just registered my kid for kindergarten in MCPS. We had to show paystubs with our address, recent utility bills (we had to go back a second time, because they rejected one of our utility bills because it wasn't sufficiently recent). We also showed our property tax statement. It wasn't like you just show up with your kid in September and they take them.

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Anonymous wrote:80% or MoCo property taxes for to MCPS (for teachers and retireee salaries/pensions, running schools, chrome books, esol). Read the school board notes.

MoCo isn’t a sanctuary city because federal tax dollars fund it, it is moco taxes and policies.

Maddening. When did we vote for this? How did we miss the discussion about this county wide goal of packing as many immigrants as possible into our schools and having homeowners pay for it?

We vote for it every single election. There is no discussion. If you live in Montgomery County, you need to understand that everyone here supports illegal immigration.

Wrong. 1000s of us do not.

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

Not true. We both teach for MCPS. To register my child, MCPS required proof of address including utility bills. When we moved from one address to another less than a half mile away, MCPS required we submit new proofs of address. Oddly, we simply filled out a form from the internet to change our address as MCPS employees.

+1 I just registered my kid for kindergarten in MCPS. We had to show paystubs with our address, recent utility bills (we had to go back a second time, because they rejected one of our utility bills because it wasn't sufficiently recent). We also showed our property tax statement. It wasn't like you just show up with your kid in September and they take them.

Maybe it differs based on cluster.

We are in a MCPS Focus school. I'm sure many posters on here would not be happy with our school, but we're surrounded by some even higher poverty schools, so we have a good number of kids who attend our school, but do not live in boundary.

FWIW, it is well known at our school that there is a huge rush in September. Every year, a bunch of kids shows up the week before school starts and the school HAS TO let them in. There's not really much effort put into verifying residency.

That may be your opinion, but that does not sound like a fact. The standards for verification of residency are not different across MCPS.

Here's the residency verification form I filled out for K. There's nothing that says: If a student is at a Focus school, ignore this form.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/secondary(1)/news/Student%20Residency%20Verification%20560-33.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

Not true. We both teach for MCPS. To register my child, MCPS required proof of address including utility bills. When we moved from one address to another less than a half mile away, MCPS required we submit new proofs of address. Oddly, we simply filled out a form from the internet to change our address as MCPS employees.

+1 I just registered my kid for kindergarten in MCPS. We had to show paystubs with our address, recent utility bills (we had to go back a second time, because they rejected one of our utility bills because it wasn't sufficiently recent). We also showed our property tax statement. It wasn't like you just show up with your kid in September and they take them.

Maybe it differs based on cluster.

We are in a MCPS Focus school. I'm sure many posters on here would not be happy with our school, but we're surrounded by some even higher poverty schools, so we have a good number of kids who attend our school, but do not live in boundary.

FWIW, it is well known at our school that there is a huge rush in September. Every year, a bunch of kids shows up the week before school starts and the school HAS TO let them in. There's not really much effort put into verifying residency.

That may be your opinion, but that does not sound like a fact. The standards for verification of residency are not different across MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

Not true. We both teach for MCPS. To register my child, MCPS required proof of address including utility bills. When we moved from one address to another less than a half mile away, MCPS required we submit new proofs of address. Oddly, we simply filled out a form from the internet to change our address as MCPS employees.

+1 I just registered my kid for kindergarten in MCPS. We had to show paystubs with our address, recent utility bills (we had to go back a second time, because they rejected one of our utility bills because it wasn't sufficiently recent). We also showed our property tax statement. It wasn't like you just show up with your kid in September and they take them.

Maybe it differs based on cluster.

We are in a MCPS Focus school. I'm sure many posters on here would not be happy with our school, but we're surrounded by some even higher poverty schools, so we have a good number of kids who attend our school, but do not live in boundary.

FWIW, it is well known at our school that there is a huge rush in September. Every year, a bunch of kids shows up the week before school starts and the school HAS TO let them in. There's not really much effort put into verifying residency.

That may be your opinion, but that does not sound like a fact. The standards for verification of residency are not different across MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

Not true. We both teach for MCPS. To register my child, MCPS required proof of address including utility bills. When we moved from one address to another less than a half mile away, MCPS required we submit new proofs of address. Oddly, we simply filled out a form from the internet to change our address as MCPS employees.

+1 I just registered my kid for kindergarten in MCPS. We had to show paystubs with our address, recent utility bills (we had to go back a second time, because they rejected one of our utility bills because it wasn't sufficiently recent). We also showed our property tax statement. It wasn't like you just show up with your kid in September and they take them.

Maybe it differs based on cluster.

We are in a MCPS Focus school. I'm sure many posters on here would not be happy with our school, but we're surrounded by some even higher poverty schools, so we have a good number of kids who attend our school, but do not live in boundary.

FWIW, it is well known at our school that there is a huge rush in September. Every year, a bunch of kids shows up the week before school starts and the school HAS TO let them in. There's not really much effort put into verifying residency.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

Not true. We both teach for MCPS. To register my child, MCPS required proof of address including utility bills. When we moved from one address to another less than a half mile away, MCPS required we submit new proofs of address. Oddly, we simply filled out a form from the internet to change our address as MCPS employees.

+1 I just registered my kid for kindergarten in MCPS. We had to show paystubs with our address, recent utility bills (we had to go back a second time, because they rejected one of our utility bills because it wasn't sufficiently recent). We also showed our property tax statement. It wasn't like you just show up with your kid in September and they take them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t need to pay tuition. MCPS does not require proof of anything - they are not allowed to because we have a large population of kids who may lack appropriate documentation.

You can use a friend’s address who lives in bounds. Much cheaper than trying to figure out a way to pay tuition! Or just offer to pay someone to use their address.

We have quite a few kids at our ES and MS who do not live in boundary. They use family members’ or friends’ addresses.

Also, once you get into a MS, you can automatically go to the HS that MS feed into.

Not true. We both teach for MCPS. To register my child, MCPS required proof of address including utility bills. When we moved from one address to another less than a half mile away, MCPS required we submit new proofs of address. Oddly, we simply filled out a form from the internet to change our address as MCPS employees.

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Anonymous wrote:whats a W school?

A school in the western part of the county whose student population is considerably more white and wealthy than MCPS overall.

Anonymous wrote:whats a W school?

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Anonymous wrote:80% or MoCo property taxes for to MCPS (for teachers and retireee salaries/pensions, running schools, chrome books, esol). Read the school board notes.

MoCo isn’t a sanctuary city because federal tax dollars fund it, it is moco taxes and policies.

Maddening. When did we vote for this? How did we miss the discussion about this county wide goal of packing as many immigrants as possible into our schools and having homeowners pay for it?

We vote for it every single election. There is no discussion. If you live in Montgomery County, you need to understand that everyone here supports illegal immigration.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you can rent a one bd apartment and make it your second home. Your child can stay there during the week. It is perfectly legal.

There are families that do this. Less expensive than paying tuition probabaly?

For FY 2016 (two years ago), MCPS non-resident tuition for secondary school was $14,299. Are there many market-rate one-bedroom apartments available in Bethesda or Potomac for less than $1,192 per month?

Lots of people are willing to rent out a room or rent out a bedroom in their condo/townhouse. For $600/month it is a fantastic deal! Cheaper than private school.

My neighbor rents out tiny rooms in her house and she charges $1300/month and this is the WJ cluster. I seriously doubt she'd rent to a high schooler either - who would want to be mommy to another kid that they don't even know?

Umm, the kid doesn’t actually live there! They just use that address and keep their current home. Pay the rent and use the address to fulfill MCPS residency requirements. I’m mom practice.

Well, sign me up then - where's my high school kid??
Only, the homeowner has to write this all up on their taxes as income and possibly deduct capital expenses against the room charge which seems like a huge hassle that has consequences when you sell your home. So, most likely it's not worth it.

So funny. You must be American, or you are just incredibly naive.

The people who do this are NOT claiming this on their taxes as income. Do you think that someone who does this is actually going to claim it? This is all cash. Money transferred amongst ‘family’. You have no clue how things work in immigrant families.

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Anonymous wrote:80% or MoCo property taxes for to MCPS (for teachers and retireee salaries/pensions, running schools, chrome books, esol). Read the school board notes.

MoCo isn’t a sanctuary city because federal tax dollars fund it, it is moco taxes and policies.

Maddening. When did we vote for this? How did we miss the discussion about this county wide goal of packing as many immigrants as possible into our schools and having homeowners pay for it?