Some people should really watch what they say...

[AF Brenda]

That is exactly the case of what is going on here, the child is someone else's dependant in this case, not the grandmother's so why should it become our responsibility to pay for his tuition?

I thought you said the household in which he lives is paying taxes??? I guess I misunderstood.

 

[Mskanga]

do you know why this boy is allowed to go to this school??? ( she even told me that ) , her nephew has the same lastname as her daughter, similar first name and same address, they were lead to believe he's her son but he's not!!! how about that for a cheat??

 

[danacara]

Glo: thought it would seem to make sense, dependents are not required to live in the parental household. College students are declared as dependents all the time while living in dorms.

 

[jipsy]

I still don't see punishing an innocent child by making an already off kilter home life more upsetting only because his aunt didn't agree that you should get a lunch money notice every now and then...

 

[KerryD]

Realistically, all a district can go by is guardianship. If they have legal guardianship, it doesn't matter who is claiming dependency to the district. It's all about the potential lawsuit and school districts won't be looking into tax returns anytime soon.

As far as the district implementing a system to notify late payers......I assume you would agree that the system would cost money, money that they will have to come up with somewhere, if not by raising taxes, then cutting something in some other area......right?

 

[glo]

everyone is entitled to their opinion, that is the wonderful thing about these boards. As long as it is done in a respectful and curteous way, differing opinions are encouraged.

Again, parents of college students are paying tuition or room and board for the most part. Last I checked there are no free colleges in the US, unless you have a scholarship and again you have to do something to get that...it is not something just given.

 

[Mskanga]

Kerry, the lunch notices program is already in place so it's not an additional expense, however if what this woman implied was that money had to be saved to cut corners , then there's a lot of other less important things that can be saved on....everyday my kids come home with notices telling me, don't forget to wear blue tomorrow for spirit day or candy sale kick off is tomorrow....they already include that in the calendar. But don't tell me that it is a crime for me to ask for a notice to tell me if I owe money once or twice a year. The funny thing is that she criticised that but yet she hasn't had her daughter in full day school yet...let's see how she handles her lunch account and if she never owes money....it happens to the best of us.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

Glo Dana is right.

Anybody is allowed to claim a person as a dependent if they pay for more than 1/2 of their care and upkeep. Same house residency is not a requirement. Permission of the legal guardian is not a requirement. Sometimes there are exceptions to this based on divorce and custody agreements, but that doesn't sound like the case here.

Given those standards - it certainly sounds like the Grandmother is at the very least entitled to claim the boy as a dependent. Whether she does or not really isn't any business of the school district.

 

[pollyanna]

It would be a whole different story if the child was just using the adress to attend the school. He lives with his grandmother,and since your school district is too overburdened to send lunch notices,i'm sure an e-mail from a nosy neighbor will be overlooked.

 

[Leota]

That poor kid! I hope the e-mail is over-looked so he doesn't wind up bearing the brunt of a tiff between 2 adults that seems to have gotten waaaay out of hand.
I can't even imagine how difficult it would be to be seperated from my Mom for the whole week as a kid - or for the Mom to be seperated from her child for the whole week - Sounds like they have enough burdens to carry without having to deal with this on top of it. Vengence never really pays off......

 

[Tinkbell]

There are so many reasons why the child may be living with the grandmother. All of those reasons are none of my business. Since in the end, it will be the boy who gets hurt, I would not report it. But that's just me.

 

[Mskanga]

ok, so now that I heard your opinions I would like to know also what you think the solution to this would be...where do we draw the line??? should we all invite our relatives to live with us and use our schools just because we pay taxes??? should we keep building schools and pay $7000 a year in taxes and be happy about people from other states sending the kids to live with grandma or what do we do??? I pay taxes for my children to go , not my nephews or nieces.

 

[AF Brenda]

And the grandmother pays taxes and only has one child going to the school, correct? And what if the people that don't have kids in school had the same attitude as you seem to have in this situation? "Why should I pay school taxes, I don't even have any curtain climbers???"

 

[AF Brenda]

And, if the child is living there, where would you suggest he go to school?

 

[Tinkbell]

As a teacher, I have seen cases where children HAVE to live with an Aunt, Uncle, Grandmother. They do not have guardianship either. In these cases, I would hate to see them being forced back to live with Mom. They are not always with grandma so that they can go to the better school.

 

[Mskanga]

Brenda. the child can continue to go to the same school if they wish but the requirement for the school district is the parties responsible for the child , are responsible for the full tuition, it has always been like that here . Now let me also tell you also what happened with the famous aunt recently. I have known this person for a while, we went to the local waterpark for a day of fun with her DD and my kids, walking to the ticket booth her DD found 3 new wrist bands, two adults one child. Do you know what she did??? she put them on their wrist and hidd the third one in her bra so nobody would see it , now I would have returned those bands to the ticket booth, that poor ffamily that lost them it cost them an additional $75 for the day because the park is not responsible if you loose something. Before anyone jumps into conclussions , no I did not want them, I have a season pass and I could not keep someone else's tickets, I may be an idiot but I would turn them in.

 

[pollyanna]

I never heard of paying tuition for public school????

 

[DopeyRN]

Olga I understand where you are coming from. I feel like I am burdened because I make just enough to be in the group that pays most of this countries bills. I get tired of paying everyone else's too.

I live in an area that is not burdened so much by overcrowding, but is just downright awful. I have paid for private schools for all of my kids because of the situations in the public schools...esp the public high schools. The load is getting heavy....

I do however feel for the child involved....

 

[WebmasterAlex]

Hey guess what gang, no school district is going to do anything because of an email they will investigate and apply their rules..
This one is closed