Moving messing with graduation date?

MrsHK · November 2008

Anyone have any experience here?

We just took in DH's cousin as our foster daughter. She attends an alternative school and was set to have enough credits to graduate this year on time. That was based on the foster home she was in being in the next district (they are all very close districts) and requiring less credits for graduation. Now that she lives with us she lives in another district that will require so many more credits that she'd be required to attend for another whole year. Like it's not even close to where she could go to summer school.

The thing is all this time she's not physically changing schools, she's attending the same school which is in a whole other district. I am trying to plead and find some way around this with everyone. She's a good kid, but right now she has incentive to get kicked out of our home and put in another home in the district where she can graduate from. Not that I worry she'll do that, it just doesn't make sense to set her up for that.

We thought about trying to keep her registered in the first district using another address (we can't move right now) but we need the bus transportation.

Has anyone had experience with something like this? We're in IL btw.

brightning · November 2008

Is there any way you can go to the school board (of the new or old school) and ask to be put on the meeting agenda so that you can get some time to talk with them, explain your situation and plead your case? They did things like that in the district I used to work in.

MrsHK · November 2008

Which school board would I go to? The one we live in? Thanks this sounds like a great idea.

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