suziq38
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Post by suziq38 on Apr 29, 2011 9:24:25 GMT -5
This happens all of the time. If the student is a good student (model behavior, excellent grades and test scores), the districts used to "look the other way," or find room for the student. In the state of California, there is the "No child left behind" rule where people can enroll their kids in more desirable districts. For example, I once talked with a HS student that could not get into a Calculus class because she claimed their wasn't one at her school. She said that there wasn't enough students that signed up.
She should be able to transfer to a public HS had had more rigorous classes for her, or more students like her.
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Plain Old Petunia
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Post by Plain Old Petunia on Apr 29, 2011 10:56:52 GMT -5
Isn't "No Child Left Behind" federal?
Another option for that HS student who can't get a calculus class is to take it at the local JC (if there is one in her community).
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Post by ty on Apr 29, 2011 11:20:38 GMT -5
I had already started a thread on this, but glad to see it back again. I feel that the mother did nothing wrong. She was doing what was best for her child, and her child is entitled to a FREE Education ion America. So if that's the case, then why are they even charging her for a crime for something that is "FREE" to all US kids? I think and believe this is more about discrimination to keep the street poor (homeless people) out of the schools. Film: Homeless (No Place Like Home) After their apartment burns down, Mike and Zan Cooper (Jeff Daniels and Christine Lahti) move with their two children into the home of Mike's brother, but tension between the families forces them to move on again, and a downward spiral of bad luck soon finds them homeless. While Mike desperately seeks work as an electrician, Zan takes a low-paying job as a waitress, and their son's entanglement with a drug dealer adds to their heavy burdens. Film: Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange CountyIn the midst of Southern Californian affluence, a generation of young people and their families are living in motels and barely hanging on. The reason: Earning the state's minimum wage, many workers simply don't make enough to afford permanent homes. Alexandra Pelosi's empathetic documentary -- which focuses on a group of homeless kids being schooled together -- raises unsettling questions about the future of the American Dream.
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Post by bean29 on Apr 29, 2011 14:12:44 GMT -5
DD is 14 and in 8th grade, but when she was 4 the school district were we moved to did not have 4K. DH and I "separated" for that year and he and DD lived with his parents while DS and I lived in the new house. My kids both went to G'M and G'P house after school. DH and I usually both ended up there after work. School district would have been hard pressed to prove anything else.
We have Chapter 220 and Open Enrollment now. I don't know how hard it is to get in another school district, but I seem to know of a lot of people that are taking advantage if it. Open Enrollment only works though if there are open seats in the grade your kid is in. If they live in the district they have to accept them. If you don't live in the district, it has to be win-win for both parties.
Personally I think these issues were one parent lives in the district and the other does not are unjust, but the parents should be able to "fix" it by changing custody shouldn't they?. Homeless one is tough, but should follow the State's policy.
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Post by tskeeter on Apr 29, 2011 16:25:42 GMT -5
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So Kreepy, does this mean that anything I do in the interest of my child is acceptable? Help myself to clothes from the clothing store because my child would otherwise have to wear hand me downs? Swing by the Chevy dealer and take a car for my child because I can only afford to buy them a bicycle? Take meat from the grocery store without paying for it because I can only afford to feed my child rice or beans for many meals?
In the states that I have lived in, public schools are funded by a combination of "state aid" and local taxes. The "state aid" is collected from all of the taxpayers in the state and then distributed to schools based on the number of days of student attendance (1 student attending, 1 day = 1 day of student attendance). The "state aid" is intended to ensure that all children have access to a basic level of education, regardless of how poverty stricken or affluent the school district they live in may be. This means that, through "state aid", residents of wealthy school districts subsidize the education of children in less affluent school districts. In addition to the "state aid", residents of a school district may vote to pay additional taxes to provide children in their district with more than a basic level of education, more teachers, newer schools, enrichment programs, etc. When a parent lies about their place of residence to enroll their child in a school that provides more than the basic education, the parent and the child are stealing the tax money provided by the residents of the school district the child is attending.
Real world example. The El Centro, CA school district found that it did not have adequate classroom space to house all of the students attending classes. The district began planning to borrow money to build several new schools to meet current and future needs. Somebody decided to check and see how many of the children attending El Centro schools were crossing the border from Mexico each day. After people with video cameras were posted at border crossings for a few weeks, El Centro school district officials learned that they had space for 25% more students than the number currently attending the schools. Fully 25% of the school district funding was being used to educate children who lived outside the El Centro school district.
Now, I realize that I'm talking about national borders, not school district boundaries. But, the principle is the same. Hundreds of children who were not entitled to attend school in El Centro were receiving an education paid for by the taxpayers of CA and the El Centro school district. Were these children and their parents stealing the value of the education from the taxpayers of CA and El Centro? I believe they were. And when a parent fraudulently enrolls their child in a school their child is not eligible to attend in order to take advantage of the quality of education that the taxpayers of that school district have agreed to provide to their children, I believe the parent and child are stealing from the taxpayers of the school district the child is attending.
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