People who support crackdowns on nonresident students believe it is first a matter of principle and second a matter of fairness to local taxpayers. Maplewood school district in New Jersey. If the kid needs a better education, the parents shouldn't steal it for him. Students crossing district boundaries to attend school can also create a financial burden. School leaders are employing a variety of tactics to keep nonresident students out of their schools.
Most districts require students to provide proof of residency at the time they register.
Such proof usually takes the form of a birth certificate, a tax document, a housing lease, or a utility bill. Some districts, including Decatur, hire a private investigator to check on suspicious claims of residency. Although it sometimes pays off, school districts often discover that enforcing residency requirements is a time-consuming and potentially costly experience. But there's got to be a point where it costs too much. The survey is based on interviews and testing of 23,000 people between the ages of 16 and 65 in the United States, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland.