Forcing the school to release your child?

Question

Due to the local economy we have to move to a not so great area..Its not bad but not good either and the school is horrible.. But in the same city we are moving to there are many schools but it goes by side of city (North, South, East, West) We are moving to the East side but I want my son who will be starting kindergarden and daughter who will be starting preschool to go to school on the South Side (I will do all transporting) but I have heard that many schools need funds so badly that they will not release children from their "district' is it wrong for me to just tell them that if they wont release him I will homeschool so either way they will not recieve funds for them? (I am within legal limits to homeschool in this state) Do you think it will work?

Answer 1

no,i htink it won't work at all because you would just be threatening the school district which is illegal and you will be suede for that! they really wouldn't care!

Answer 2

just sue da school!

Answer 3

yes because  it shows ho muchyou care about your kids school work i hope it will work for you

Answer 4

I am Currently Home schooled.

People say it will hurt a childs social skills but i am so scocial it would make your head spin.

  If you are serious about home schooling do it.

I am doing so much better in home schooling its insane.

I dont think the school would care if  you told them you were going to home school. Once your kids are in the 8th or ninth grade(years from now) i reccomend Citizens Highschool, The "school" im currently in. It is great i love it.

God bless you! i pray for the best.

Answer 5

Schools operate by rules set down by states and local districts.  They do not bend them for specific people just to get the small amount of funding the school would get from two kids.  

If you are serious about homeschooling, begin your research.  Do not make your decision about homeschooling dependent upon the vagaries of a broken school system.

Answer 6

Why do you "have to" move to a "not so great area".  I'm sure you could find housing in a different part of the city within your budget.

Some school districts do allow special transfers.  The thing is, you would still be in the same district, so they would receive your property taxes, and the state's money anyway.  Plus, it would free up space in your home area's probably overcrowded school anyway.

Here in my city, we live in the city, but we are in a suburban village's school district (right at the border of it).  People from the city's school district can "self pay" to attend school at the village school...for a fee of $3000.  That is basically what the home district loses by the student leaving their area.

I'm so confused by your question.  First you say it goes by "sides of the city", but then you say "release them from their district".  So I'm not sure which it is in your case.  I *highly* doubt that if you want to change *districts* they will let you.  BUT schools *within* a district may be okay.

I would not use the "threat" of homeschooling them.  That is just a totally moot point.  If you're interested in it, why not just do it?  Have you *really* checked to see what HS'ing activities are available???  You're in a city twice the size of mine.  We have FIVE HS co-ops.  The one I'm in has 135 students in it from nursery age to 12th grade.

You are just going to have to come up with some other reason than "the schools are bad".  Perhaps if you say it is a hardship with you attending school in the "south"???  My sister was able to get a special transfer (within the same district) because her son didn't qualify to ride the bus (too close to school) and she didn't want him walking home.  So she asked for him to transfer to the school closest to her work.  She was able to leave work in the morning and afternoon to take him to, and from, school.

Again, though, you should just find a housing in the school district you want.  You do realize that by buying in a district with very poor schools makes your resale value of your home very risky.  When we moved, we limited our search to within the school district we wanted.  We looked at 50 homes.

Answer 7

well I don't know about your state but here in Texas the school can refuse to release them all they want but the new district HAS to accept them and once they are accepted elsewhere the original school HAS to release them no questions asked