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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Facing a similar situation. Have a cousin who is in custody of her grandmother (my relative) as mother got into lots of trouble and had custody taken away. I don't refer to it as flyover country, but heroin and meth pervades in her town so maybe it's heroin alley? We've been paying her full tuition at the only local private school, but that school only educates up to 8th grade. We took them to visit 2 boarding schools a few hours away, and they seemed to like it, but now it's incredibly difficult to get her grandmother to take any of the steps towards the application process. To me, it's not that difficult to print out the teacher recommendation forms and hand them to the teachers, but it's not something I can do from here hundreds of miles away.

I've never interfered in the school I currently pay for. I don't even know her grades, though I've heard they are good. If she doesn't continue in some type of private school, we fear she's going to end up in a bad situation at the local public high school, where teenage pregnancy, meth arrests, and opiate overdoses are a regular occurrence.

My guess is grandmother is wavering between the boarding school idea. She's older so it would be hard to manage a teenager and she knows it, but on the other hand she'll be all alone if my cousin moves out. She has no friends and family left in the town she lives in, and doens't work either.

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Your situation is worlds different from OPs.

Your family's charge is more or less an orphan. Good for all of you for making sure she does not fall through the cracks. You should be commended.

OPs niece and nephew have parents who have chosen a certain lifestyle for their family.

Their only crime is that it is not the lifestyle OP woukd have chosen or that OP sees any value in. She disdains her sister, thinks she is stupid, looks down on yer for jot marrying up, disdains their family being working class, and wants to use her rich HUSBAND's wealth (not her own) to interfere with this family.

Not once did she mention the promise of these kids or their potential. Only disdain for her sister not being bright and disdain for "flyover country."

OP is worlds apart from you and your kindness.[/quote]

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