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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]COSAs are for hardship.  Wanting to go to a closer school is not a hardship.[/quote]

Our COSA request was approved so that my DC could catch bus to and from school from my mom’s house in a neighboring district. We provided proof that doing so would save us money in aftercare costs, while our jobs required us to be at work. Notably, the two schools’ capacity were similar so I know that made our request easier to approve. Certainly COSA requests can’t be flippant but they don’t necessarily have to reflect extreme hardship. [/quote]

I mean the other solution would have been for your mom to come watch him at your house and put him on the bus. [/quote]

She runs a daycare out of her home so that wasn’t an option. But thanks for helping to brainstorm alternatives!

OP, try a COSA request if you want. If it gets denied so be it. But let the COSA board make that decision, rather than DCUM. [/quote]

Isn't it too late for a COSA request for next year?
"Request forms must be submitted no earlier than the first school day in February 2022, and no later than the first school day of April 2022, for the 2022–2023 school year. In the absence of extenuating circumstances, late applications will not be processed."

[url]https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/info/transfers/2022/COSA_ChangeOfSchoolAssignment_ENGLISH_Web.pdf[/url][/quote]

The deadline has passed but there really is no deadline. COSAs are submitted, approved, denied, and appealed at any time of the year. Kindergarten registration just opened, so that alone has to put many parents late with COSA requests, since you have to register at your assigned school first, then apply to change.[/quote]

Especially with the whole moving, new house, thing; they would allow it.[/quote]

Maybe, but saying "I just moved to a new house and the school it's assigned to isn't the closest" is not a unique hardship. Everyone in the neighborhood could make the same claim.[/quote]

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