Paying tax to Allen & sending kids to Plano schools (Lewisville: mortgage, lawyer)

[BigDGeek]

I would advise the OP to keep out of it; it's none of their business. Pick your battles!

[Bypass13]

PISD spends roughly $8,400 per student every year and if we have lets say 5,000 freeloaders then its $420,0000 per year loss on top of what taxes funnel into Robin Hood system. It is a size able chunk. Apartment owners do pay property tax from their income so tenants are fine by me.

[PISDstudent]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

I would advise the OP to keep out of it; it's none of their business. Pick your battles!

Completely agree.

I would also (from experience) add that the students that these students tend to be very strong ones, probably since their parents care enough about their education to get them into whatever school they're going to. In many ways, they're assests to those schools.

[Bypass13]

So some who take Jhonny's place on football team and take Jill's spot on science fair list. Rest just burden budget so we cut art program or forget new tech lab. Asset whose father drives BMW because replica of Wu's dad's house here costs 100,000 more than Asset's dad's house in Frisco.

[Obamney1]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

I would advise the OP to keep out of it; it's none of their business. Pick your battles!

If she is a law abiding citizen and a local resident then its her business too.

[Big G]

PISD has over 50,000 students. There's no way 5,000 of these are faking residency - more like 50 or 100 district-wide across 70 campuses. That makes this a 1-in-1000 or 1-in-500 problem, not a 1-in-10 problem.

The full-blown scammers are rare - more often, the non--custodial parent is using his/her PISD residence to enroll the kids, though the kids live outside PISD with the other parent. Is that wrong? Most posters on here would say, "That's fine. - He/She is paying taxes" Yet it's still a violation of the regulations - kids are supposed to attend where they live.

[Obamney1]

Anybody paying property tax pays for the right to enroll his/her children in that district and not doing anything illegal or immoral if they take districts permission. I was not talking about them.

[Big G]

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[TX75007]

Originally Posted by Souleiado

I don't know obviously about the kids you see at the bus stop, but you could have many explanations . I know a few people that are at poverty level that live in a less than stellar neighborhood in Plano that did transfer their kids to a better school. Transfers cannot use the school buses . You could have also kids that need to get to school early or stay later due to different activities or tutoring , buses run only once in the morning and right after school ends , leaving no time for any extra activities . If parents are not available or do not have any transportation , the DART is the only way for those kids to get to school.

Bingo.

[TX75007]

I always put the shoe on the other foot and then ask myself how I would feel if I was legit and someone was sniping for me?

If the kid is doing well and one parent or family member lives in the district, then it is none of my business. Period. If the parents want the kid to go to school that bad, then they can always do an end run by reassigning custody or giving the kid emancipation. My grandparents were given custody of me for my last three years of high school for this reason.

And if I was motivated to "turn someone in" I would wait until the end of the year to minimize the disruption to the kid's education.

I am amazed that some people will take a baseball bat to a child's life for the satisfaction of turning someone in. Sad.