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I think you missed the part about it being a co-op school.  All the parents are involved and work together.  If everyone collectively decided that someone was not a good fit then they would be kicked out.  This is very unlikely.  Parents and teacher (s) would work together to resolve all issues.  It's not like someone is going to be sitting in an office kicking students out of the school.  Also, everyone would have to agree to the model and programs of the school beforehand and everyone would have to support it.

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Look, I just hate to tell you this, but that's completely illegal and if you do that, you are going to get sued.  You cannot allow a parent to see someone else's kid's educational, behavioral, or developmental records, either directly or indirectly.  That's not just Buckley Amendment - it's state privacy law.  And VA (surprisingly?) has a fairly aggressivestate civil rights law -- you simply will have to accommodate reasonably foreseeable disabilities, including non-dangerous behavior issues.  You can't just generally give parents a vote -- this would not qualify as a private membership club.  
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Kids get kicked out of private schools.  It happens.  It does.

I am not talking about kicking someone out because they are naughty.  geesh!  if someone is not a good fit for the school then they would probably just leave.  The group of us talking about this school are all friends and not interested in kicking out each other's children.  We just want to provide a good learning environment for our kids.  We don't want them learning things from children who come from homes with no rules, where children aren't supervised, where they weren't taught right from wrong and learn things at an early age.  I am not trying to be judgemental about kids who come from low SES families, but there are differences.  Jefferson Houston is predominantly low SES.

We are just looking for a less expensive alternative to educate our children and everyone wants to be really involved.  As many people have mentioned, maybe a homeschool co-op would be a good idea.  ( as i have said several times now)

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You were the one who used the word naughty.  And until you started dialing it back in the last few posts, kicking out the "deliberately naughty" kids was one of the motivations for your school.  So now you are changing this to essentially screening for "good" families. Are you going to kick kids out or not?    What private schools generally do is counsel students out.  They also reserve the right not to renew a contract.  The people who make this decision are not other parents.  In fact, if an administrator has a child at the school they will remove themselves from any decisions involving that child.  You cannot share a child's private information with other parents.  I really think you need to put some thought into whether you are equipped to do this better than the school system.  Because I don't think there is anyone reading this thread who thinks you are at all prepared for this.[/quote]

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