I find it interesting that City Schools doesn't do any of that. I wonder why? Oh, yeah, it's because we don't have zone schools and it's our schools that the parents in the county are running from.

Honestly it's a bit much but a reality. We don't care in the city because the State and Feds give us 80%+ of our budget; more kids, more money sent to the city.

Baltimore county taxpayers, of which I am one pay the lions share of their school budget. In fact it's almost the exact flip in funding with County taxpayers funding 80%+/. City residents using county schools are not funded and cost the county dearly. I'm glad the county is checking and watching my tax dollars.

It's a pain in the a** they can't decide on what is acceptable or not as far as documents are concerned. Again those playing by the rules are asked to prove they are doing so.

I find it interesting that after teaching in Baltimore County for more than 20 years, I was told (via a letter last week)that I had to prove that I was legally eligible to work in the USA in order to continue in my teaching position. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of BCPS employees received similar letters.

Vetern, Kids in (at least) two of the city's Charter schools are required to prove residency. I've been under the assumption that every student in the city school system had to do the same and have been asking howintheworld the school system motivates the (seemingly huge numbers of) parents who don't seem to care if their kids even show up at school, to produce documentation. Now it makes a little more sense.

I am glad that my tax dollars are being protected. Kids coming in from the city used to be a huge issue and expense for BCPS. It was commonplace to see tons of kids from county schools at the MTA stop on Liberty Rd after dismissal. Interestingly, the students who did come in from the city usually were pretty good kids with good parents that cared enough to keep them out of the city school system.

The same thing needs to be duplicated for baltimore city schools..especially at city, poly, western and bsa!!! we have tons of students that reside in the county and are not paying the required out of city tuition!!thousands of dollars just sitting on the table!!

As long as your being paid to teach in Baltimore County I am very glad they are making sure you are qualified to teach in the US. If they haven't bothered to do it in the last twenty years that speaks more to the past then why they shouldn;t be doing it now. As far as parents having to prove that their kid actually resides in the Baltimore County school district that is the least you can do. The Baltimore County taxpayers have high enough property taxes as it is, we don't need a couple thousand kids from Baltimore City getting a free ride. The City is it's own disaster. That doesn't mean I want to pay any more than I already do with my state taxes to have them flush it down the shoot.