DUmmie wants school choice, but only for those that can afford the good neighbor

[thundley4]

uncommon   (1000+ posts)           Tue Sep-07-10 12:46 PM
Original message
This is what school choice does to people --
   
I live in a city that has school choice. There are 7 or 8 elementary schools.

I moved here from a town with one elementary school in order to share custody with my ex-husband - literally out of the kindness of my heart.

He went and registered her for school as I would have had to drive over an hour to come and do it and he could do it any time.

He registered her at a school 4 miles away that offers no school bus because it is not her neighborhood school (for either of our addresses).

I went in today to transfer her since I now commute 1.2 hours to work and cannot be home when she needs a ride to and from school.

Her neighborhood school, which is the best in the city (part of the reason I moved to this particular neighborhood) and about .5 miles away and easily walked with her babysitter (who does not drive), is FULL.

The school system refuses to bus her, so if I am lucky in an hour she *might* be transferred to the second closest school which is still a mile away.

If we didn't have school choice, all of the kids could go to their neighborhood school.

This is a nightmare.

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Nicholas D Wolfwood   (1000+ posts)             Tue Sep-07-10 12:49 PM
Response to Original message
1. Sounds like the problem is with you and your ex not being able to communicate.
   
And has nothing to do with school choice.
 
uncommon   (1000+ posts)           Tue Sep-07-10 12:50 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. That is *a* problem --
   
he should have actually told me what was going on - but the schools she should be going to are full, which shouldn't be an issue when kids automatically go to a certain school.
 
Nicholas D Wolfwood   (1000+ posts)             Tue Sep-07-10 12:54 PM
Response to Reply #2
5. Of course they're going to be full NOW.
   
That wouldn't have been the case if done properly from the start. If there's an empty seat at a good school, it will be filled - that's common sense and not a problem with the system.

Put another way - which kid are you going to kick out of that school to accommodate your kid, knowing that you didn't do enrollment right in the first place?
 
MattBaggins   (1000+ posts)             Tue Sep-07-10 12:53 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. No it sounds like she nailed the problem on the head
   
Sounds like you have a problem.
 
Nicholas D Wolfwood   (1000+ posts)             Tue Sep-07-10 12:55 PM
Response to Reply #4
6. I don't have any problems
   
But I also make sure I get these things right the first time and don't wait until school starts to fix them.
 
Kolesar   (1000+ posts)             Tue Sep-07-10 12:51 PM
Response to Original message
3. Dont be afraid to go up the chain of command
   
Call school board members, if you must.
I don't have children, so I am just throwing out ideas.

None of the DUmmies call her out on the fact that she moved to the area with the best school.

[terry]

That's amazing.   Basically she wants school choice and she wants to be able to change her choice the day before school starts and wants her kid placed where she wants the kid placed regardless of how full the school is.

She doesn't want to allow any of "those other" kids in her kid's school.

[PatriotGame]

uncommon   (1000+ posts)           Tue Sep-07-10 12:46 PM
Original message
This is what school choice does to people --

...allows me to be her bi-mother!!

This is a nightmare.

f1x0r3d...

[AllosaursRus]

Oh for cripes sake! I walked damn near a mile to school when I was in the frikkin' 3rd grade! Almost 3 miles when I was in the eighth! We walked in just under an hour! Big frikkin' deal! There was a whole crowd of us!

Suck it up DUmbass! Your kid probly needs to lose the weight anyway, to say nothin' of your probable 300lb babysitter!