Going to the wrong school

[Anonymous]

It's very easy to get an exception in Fairfax County. I did it with my kids and had absolutely no problem at all. I wouldn't assume that they are doing anything illegal.

[Anonymous]

It is Fairfax County. It all goes into the same pool whether you are paying taxes in McClean or paying taxes in Fairfax Station.

[Anonymous]

Thats a sucky situation for them. OTOH, they should have looked into the afterschool care problem before moving. Moving is almost always optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thats a sucky situation for them. OTOH, they should have looked into the afterschool care problem before moving. Moving is almost always optional.

Moving is not really "optional" for many people. Job loss, a change in marital status, loss of income, many factors can make it so that a parent must move. It must be nice to live in a world where you think moving is almost always optional.

[Anonymous]

They can always due a pupil placement request based on their care situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They can always due a pupil placement request based on their care situation.

You cannot transfer into a "closed" school. Apparently, regardless of your current status at the school, or your child care situation.

[Anonymous]

13 24 again, this dashboard tells you what schools allow transfers in (or allow you to STAY if you move) and which ones done.

http://www.fcps.edu/fts/dashboard/12-13dashboard.html

[Anonymous]

I believe you can officially apply to attend a certain elementary school, not your designated base school, if you state that your only child care option is in that school's boundaries. Not sure of the situation if the child care needed "near" the school is actually SACC, but at least two neighbors who had kids attending a certain day care said that they needed their kids to attend a certain elementary school when they started kindgergarten, in order to have after-care at the old day care. No move was involved. It didn't seem to matter that there were plenty of other day care options near the preferred school. I think a perception that the school of choice was "better" than the neighborhood school may have played a role in the families' requests, but there was an official FCPS route that allowed attending the non-neighborhood school for after-care availability reasons.

[Anonymous]

13:24 Good point about closed schools -- I did not know that.

- 13:44

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They can always due a pupil placement request based on their care situation.

You cannot transfer into a "closed" school. Apparently, regardless of your current status at the school, or your child care situation.

Sale stated in the last school board meeting they would consider pupil placement for children with extra circumstances that are being transferred due to the new AAP centers. It couldn't hurt this poster to inquire about it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They can always due a pupil placement request based on their care situation.

You cannot transfer into a "closed" school. Apparently, regardless of your current status at the school, or your child care situation.

Sale stated in the last school board meeting they would consider pupil placement for children with extra circumstances that are being transferred due to the new AAP centers. It couldn't hurt this poster to inquire about it

Disregard my post. Thought it was a different thread!!!!