Best elementary in Flower Mound area(if you could choose any one)

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by kittypawz11

Thank you, Turtle Creek 80! I definitely will take your advice and look into car pooling and splitting the drive days with the nanny to finish this year out. I'm a flight attendant so am out of town a lot and my husband travels often for work, hence the nanny. I'm also going to see if there are any decent private options closer that I can put them in next school year. I definitely don't want to break any laws and I was unaware of the seriousness of it. No wonder I've received such negative responses! I'm completely clueless when it comes to the school system and zoning and all that. Thank you so much for taking the time to advise.

Here is public schools 101: Texas school districts are called "independent" (ISD's) because they operate independent of any city or county. ISD boundaries do not always follow city boundaries which is why there are kids living in the 7000 blocks of Dallas who attend HPISD and why Town of HP west of the Tollroad attend Dallas ISD.

The public schools your kids attend depends on your home address. There are families all over the metroplex who may be closer, distance-wise, to a different elementary school in the same ISD or even a different school in another ISD, but they must go to the school their address is zoned to.

This is why it is INCREDIBLY important to research schools as part of your home search; it would be horrible to find out you live in, say, Plano but are zoned to Frisco or Lewisville schools or to find out that school that is walking distance from your new home isn't the one your kid will attend.

VERY, VERY rarely do school disrricts allow inter-district transfers. When they do, the kid transferring in pays tuition that is comparable to private school tuition.

The reason other posters were outraged by what you were suggesting is that 1) it's illegal, and 2) just like in HPISD, the best schools all around the metroplex are overcrowded. Families pay a premium to live in these neifhborboods due to their fabulous schools. How would you feel if your child who is at Bradfield had 5 more kids in his/ her class, all of whom live in Lakewood or Oak Cliff or Plano and who are using a "sham" address where dad keeps a small office or a tiny studio apartment for granny as their HPISD qualifying address. They don't pay HPISD taxes (and you know how cash-strapped the district's resources are without these 5 "free-loading" kids!!), they don't live anywhere near you, and they don't participate in anything (YMCA sports, neighborhood churches, Boy/Girl scouts, cafeteria duty, PTA meetings, etc) because they live in fear of being "found out". What you were talking about doing to the Lewisville ISD is no different!

It sounds as though you've already closed on the Hickory Creek home, but if you haven't, I'd have a firm chat with your hubby. It sounds like you greatly value education and you have a tough choice to make between Lake Dallas ISD, mediocre private schools, or doubling your Greenhill tuition bill (which may be another financial burden). If you need to be close to the airport, Coppell ISD, Carroll ISD (Southlake) or Grapevine- Colleyville ISD would all be much stronger choices academically. Flower Mound as well. Perhaps there is a solution you haven't thought of yet?!

[mSooner]

All I can add is it isn't going to happen in LISD, especially in the competitive elementaries. The parents zoned to Wellington elementary pitched a hissy fit when the zoning was going to change within the school district.

[OwenFam]

I was going to respond to the OP, but decided to read some of their other posts first.

Here's just one example:
Where do the "normal" people hang out?

And then the next day after this above post:
Relocating to Dallas from Los Angeles

???

[veuvegirl]

Nice catch! Trolling perhaps?

[CMC_TX]

Originally Posted by OwenFam

I was going to respond to the OP, but decided to read some of their other posts first.

Here's just one example:
Where do the "normal" people hang out?

And then the next day after this above post:
Relocating to Dallas from Los Angeles

???

So funny! Her posts aren't even believable. One minute she's a single girl relocating, the next she's married and moving to Hickory Creek.

[mom2gurls]

Originally Posted by OwenFam

I was going to respond to the OP, but decided to read some of their other posts first.

Here's just one example:
Where do the "normal" people hang out?

And then the next day after this above post:
Relocating to Dallas from Los Angeles

???

Lets not also forget that those posts are CIRCA 2009. A lot can happen in almost 4 years. Its easy to forget to look at how old the posts are!

[OwenFam]

Originally Posted by mom2gurls

Lets not also forget that those posts are CIRCA 2009. A lot can happen in almost 4 years. Its easy to forget to look at how old the posts are!

Yes, but those posts were a day apart....read them. One day, she's a single 28 year old and the next day (literally, the next day), she's in her 30's and living somewhere else.

[Wrecked]

Originally Posted by OwenFam

Yes, but those posts were a day apart....read them. One day, she's a single 28 year old and the next day (literally, the next day), she's in her 30's and living somewhere else.

Actually, if you read them. One day shes early 30s and is moving to Portland from Dallas and a day later shes 28 living in Dallas.

Women lie about there age(she could very well be 40 who knows), but reading the posts together, it is plausible that she lived in Dallas and was in the process of moving to move to Portland on those days she posted.

But yeah it does seem kind of fishy.

[OwenFam]

Originally Posted by Wrecked

Actually, if you read them. One day shes early 30s and is moving to Portland from Dallas and a day later shes 28 living in Dallas.

Women lie about there age(she could very well be 40 who knows), but reading the posts together, it is plausible that she lived in Dallas and was in the process of moving to move to Portland on those days she posted.

But yeah it does seem kind of fishy.

I see your point....maybe she was just looking to make friends and, yes, didn't necessarily want to tell her real age.