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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Okay a parent deployed or foster care - okay that is a hardship. There rest are to make it much easier. [b]Divorced parents wouldn't need COSA. The child could go to either school. Single parents, sorry.[/b] Find childcare for your kids. That is your responsibility. If you have the time to sit and make multiple appeals, you have time to find a new childcare option. Kids in other schools does not equal a hardship - no way. I don't think it is right. I already hate the wasted money going towards these programs but now we are bussing in entire families to one school because one kid gets in. No wonder these programs seem to be over involved parents that really are just happy to get out of crappy schools. [/quote]

Children of divorced parents go to the school assigned to the primary custody parent.  They cannot just choose either one, unless they get a COSA.

The "wasted money" you're speaking of is for the sibling link in immersion, which is being eliminated anyway.  Students on COSAs do not get transportation, so you're not paying to bus them all over the county.  If a child got a COSA to attend a school where their sibling is in a special education program, the student would ride the same bus already provided for the sibling.  No additional bus expense there (I know, you're probably shocked and appalled that students in non-home school special ed programs get transportation!).

Your view of "sorry, find childcare" is showing how privileged YOU are and how much perspective you lack.  For many, many people in Montgomery County, it is not so simple to just "find childcare."  Centers generally close by 7pm.  The examples listed include someone living on a retail salary.  Have you ever done with children?  Do you have any idea what kind of hardship that actually is?  Do you know what it's like to get off work from Walmart at 11pm and hope you can catch the last bus, because otherwise it's $15 (two hours of income) for a taxi?  What do you think the response would be if that parent said "Sorry, I can only work 9-5 because I have kids at school."  They would lose their job.  Do you think that person has a ton of options available, for childcare, or even to better themselves and have opportunity for better employment?  Unlikely.  Would you prefer the parent just quit working all together so that childcare wouldn't be an issue?

Oh, I know, the person probably shouldn't have had kids in the first place, right?  It might not be YOUR responsibility or problem, but it is the school system's responsibility to ensure every child has access to school, and believe it or not, sometimes that requires a COSA.[/quote]

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