School District

[dmccarty]

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Is it all due to the schools being inherently better? Having better faculty? In better neighborhoods? Absolutely not. One of the biggest factors is that the parents are much more involved in the schools....

In NC we have Charter schools. By law there are only 100 state wide and the limit has been reached. The Legislature might boost the number of Charter schools but various interests are fighting the expansion.

One of our kids went to a county school while the other has been to two Charters. We had no complaints about the quality of teachers in the public or private schools. I do think the big difference is that the PARENTS MUST want and work to get their kids in a Charter school. Which means they are interested in the child's education. Those parents are not going to view school as free day care.

The other advantage is that the parents run the school. This can be good or bad. There are some Charters that have been doing very poorly academically. I know one of the schools has turned this around.

Our school goes from K to 12. The number of kids are limited by the facility. The teachers get to know the kids and family since they will most likely be going to the school until the graduate. The school is a multi room single room school. Frankly I think all of the schools should to to this model. The huge 1,000-2,000 kid schools are scary.

Regardless of the problems of Charters, their benefits well out weigh the negative. See the mess in Wake county, NC as an example. Frankly I think all of the schools should go to a Charter model. Limited size, K-12 classes, and parental control/involvement. Course some of the parents scare me. Many of the teachers I think are on their way to Sainthood.

KB9UDE is going to have some hard choices. We have had them as well. It would far easier for us to let the kids go to the county schools. Up until middle school the kids would only be going 3-4 miles to school. Now they are 10-15 miles.

Charters/Magnets/Private schools might be options. Maybe homeschooling though that is not something that would work for us.

We know some people who seem to have taken jobs away from their house. We only see them during the weekends. We have not asked but it seems that they are somehow maintaining two homes. One for the work week and their house for the weekend. They gots to do what they gots to do. Having two homes might be another option. You only have to do it for 13 years or so. :confused2:

Later,
Dan

 

[phiferpharm]

...Charters/Magnets/Private schools might be options. Maybe homeschooling though that is not something that would work for us.

We know some people who seem to have taken jobs away from their house. We only see them during the weekends. We have not asked but it seems that they are somehow maintaining two homes. One for the work week and their house for the weekend. They gots to do what they gots to do. Having two homes might be another option. You only have to do it for 13 years or so. :confused2:

Later,
Dan

I think homeschooling is not the way they are thinking if they both have jobs they want to maintain. In Florida they have virtual K-12 available to everyone, but it still requires someone at home to work with the child.

I understand the two home concept- been living that for two years since the missus retired and started living full-time on our North Florida property and I still have at least 6 months to go in Miami. It does point out the problem to some degree.

My work county has 350+ schools, with about 100 magnet school programs, and an additional 90+ charter schools. About 45,000 students in Magnet schools and the same number in Charter schools. There is a few schools that accept cross-county students.

My place in North Florida has a K-8 about 7 miles from my property and I think the High school is about 15 miles away. I don't think there are more than 40 schools in the whole county and maybe 43000 students total. I don't know if they allow cross-county transfers.

It seems as though John's place is similiar to Fort McCoy and so his choices ae limited. It is a tough one to figure out..

 

[clemsonfor]

Yea most schools want a physical address for the reason your doing, its way to easy to get a PO and send them to the choice school. Looki into the no child left behind clause, it allows parents to enroll in different schools are faining in some way, not sure if yours is or not. The option is the grandparents address and dont let on what is going on, you either live there or the grands take care of kids for you needs to be the story. I had a friend that in HS did this and nobody knew, well except all the students.

How about letting them stay in an after school program and then letting your wife pick them up at say 530 or so?

 

[clemsonfor]

You guys just hit one of the major problems on the head! Health Insurance. We could get by without my wifes income because of expenses of child care, gas, etc... But my wifes employer gives an awesome rate for health ins.

I thought Obama care fixed this for us? "One would not be bound to a job because of health care provided, they would then be free to become a photographer or artist"? I thought the point of this provision was to help folks in your position, so your wife is not "bound" to that job. Call your congressmen and check into it and let us know.

 

[clemsonfor]

I think homeschooling is not the way they are thinking if they both have jobs they want to maintain. In Florida they have virtual K-12 available to everyone, but it still requires someone at home to work with the child.

I understand the two home concept- been living that for two years since the missus retired and started living full-time on our North Florida property and I still have at least 6 months to go in Miami. It does point out the problem to some degree.

My work county has 350+ schools, with about 100 magnet school programs, and an additional 90+ charter schools. About 45,000 students in Magnet schools and the same number in Charter schools. There is a few schools that accept cross-county students.

My place in North Florida has a K-8 about 7 miles from my property and I think the High school is about 15 miles away. I don't think there are more than 40 schools in the whole county and maybe 43000 students total. I don't know if they allow cross-county transfers.

It seems as though John's place is similiar to Fort McCoy and so his choices ae limited. It is a tough one to figure out..

Again he could buy a small piece of property and put a busted up travel camper on it with a mail box and that would make him pay in county taxes or he could buy a foreclosure or a busted up trailer to get in the district and use this as the addy. Yea they dont live there just a technicality in my view as he is now bearing a tax burden in the chosen district.

 

[MossRoad]

Again he could buy a small piece of property and put a busted up travel camper on it with a mail box and that would make him pay in county taxes or he could buy a foreclosure or a busted up trailer to get in the district and use this as the addy. Yea they dont live there just a technicality in my view as he is now bearing a tax burden in the chosen district.

That is called fraud.

 

[clemsonfor]

That is called fraud.

Hows is owning a property in a district and using it as your primary residnence fraud? You pay taxes on that trailer just the same as if an Illegal bought it and sent 5 kids to school from that address. You both are paying taxes at the primary rate(you would have to say it was a residence so when they check you show in the tax assessor as living there). And heck if your an out of towner you are paying at a higher rate. I know i get taxed at like 7% on my rural farm property where id only pay 5% if i was full time there.

 

[beppington]

Like I said before --I am not trying to cheat anyone or do anything illegal...It is just not going to work out well for us to be home when the kids would get off the bus. We are still looking at possible solutions.

You've stated that twice, & then just about everything else you type says otherwise.

 

[beppington]

Hows is owning a property in a district and using it as your primary residnence fraud?

fraud - 1. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

Declaring it your primary residence & not actually living there would be fraudulent.

 

[clemsonfor]

fraud - 1. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

Declaring it your primary residence & not actually living there would be fraudulent.

But you are paying taxes at that primary rate. Who looses, technically you do as you are paying primary resident taxes on your first and second residence.

But like i said i pay higher taxes on my second property casue I DONT live there, id be cheaper to claim it as primary. I would except its across the state from me!