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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a cousin who currently sends her older child to boarding school in the US. My cousin and her family live in a different country. She wants to send her younger child in the US but due to the economy and exchange rates, they cannot afford to send both kids to boarding school in the US. She asked if the younger child could stay with us and go to school.

I already have 3 kids and it a struggle daily to wake them up and I feel like we barely get to school. Same for the afternoons. We have constant conflicts and it is difficult to feed and drive my own 3 kids.

Would you take in a cousin?[/quote]

My BIL wanted us to host their teenager as an informal “exchange student” (their words) to the local high school.  He and his siblings did it back in the 1980s and they just enrolled in public school no problem, for a semester.  I looked into it for DC and legally it does require a visa and paying the public school….better just to pay for private school IMO, it’s not that much cheaper.  There are also legal exchange student programs, but not long term like you cousin is asking.

I think the legal options for long term attending public school here are: visa and pay the public school; refugee; you adopt the kid.  I’m not a lawyer.  I would not do something illegal and unethical (we pay taxes) for my cousin. [/quote]

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