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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm sensitive to families going through that issue or any kind of issue (and I'm not one of the PPs). But if the kid is living with an IB grandparent, why is an out of state parent doing the drop off? That's what I never understand about these endless debates and convenient explanations. "Oh, the kid lives with one parent in-bounds, but the other parent lives in Maryland, and that parent does the drop off and pickup 4 days out of 5." Why would you consistently be seeing the Maryland parent do the drop off? If the kid is actually living with the Maryland relative almost every night of the week, then they aren't actually "living" IB.[/quote]

Well, that's a very letter of the law approach. A spirit of the law approach would note that it would be disruptive for the child, the class, and the school community to force a child to disenroll every time they have a temporary placement with a relative. Can you imagine? A family in crisis, a parent incarcerated (but with a release date) and school authorities knocking at the door to be 100% sure that the child is sleeping at the "right" house 51% of the time?

I think these discussions often get caught up in race and class, so let's flip the script.

Audrey is an 8 year-old 3rd grader at Janney. Her dad is on a 12-month unaccompanied posting with the World Bank when her mom goes into pre-term labor and is hospitalized for six weeks of monitoring and bedrest.

During that time, she stays with her grandmother in Chevy Chase, who drops her off at Janney every morning for those six weeks.

Would it have been better for Audrey to have disenrolled from her home school, with her friends and neighors and her Brownie troop? Or was it better to bend the rules just a tad so that a child already having a hard time doesn't also have to navigate a brand new school for what was known to be a short interlude? [/quote]

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