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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would you throw money at a lawyer when you have a contract? That would just be losing more money. 
A classmate of my dd changed to public when her family ended up moving to a good district over the summer. She attended the first week of public, said she was sick for 2 weeks and attended the private and then went back to public. [/quote]

+1 on not bothering to get a lawyer. There is no point. You signed a valid contract.

Public schools are a lot more fussy about absences than private. Two weeks is a long time to be absent and I can't see how you could be out that long without a doctor's note. I think you would just need to wait until the two weeks was up to enroll.

[b]That said, if it were me I would just tell my kid that you missed the deadline, she was going to private next year, and be done with it. If your child was miserable I would have a different answer, but there's no way I could spend that amount of money for nothing. She can go to public next year.[/b]

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This is a ridiculous answer.  Please go google "sunk costs," then come back and revise.  [/quote]

I'm well aware of what a sunk cost is, genius. But if the kid felt that strongly about going to public school, she could have decided that well before June 1st. Tough luck, kiddo. I'm not going to throw up my hands and say, "oh well, sunk costs!" and spend $50,000 on an education so my kid can go to public school on a whim. Nope.[/quote]

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