urgh... enrolling into high school

[ggirlballa]

i'm trying to get into a high school by using my friend's address (because where i live is in another high school's boundries) & what i have to do is enroll with the high school i want to go to with my grades & a "proof of address" so like a phone bill or something, but what the fuck am i going to say when they see the bill & its not listed in our name?:confused:

any advice y'all?

[adam_f]

Drop out and sell yourself for Sudafed.

[mikizee]

Drop out and sell yourself for Sudafed.

you read my mind.

[ggirlballa]

Drop out and sell yourself for Sudafed.

that was plan A, but Sudafed said no:(

[adam_f]

I guess you'll have to sell yourself for Flintstones vitamins.

[mikizee]

Crack's always an option.

[ggirlballa]

I guess you'll have to sell yourself for Flintstones vitamins.


*breaksdown*

[adam_f]

I didn't mean to undersell you. I'm sure you're worth at least Tylenol Cold & Sinus.

[ggirlballa]

I didn't mean to undersell you. I'm sure you're worth at least Tylenol Cold & Sinus.


thats my goal, if not Pepto Bismal is ok

also today was the last day for permits if this doesn't work out i'm fuzzucked

[QueenAdrock]

You won't be able to; that's why they have that rule in place, so people can't claim to live with someone that they don't, in order to go to another high school.

I was in that situation. We were close to getting a condo in the district of the school I wanted to go to, because I could NOT go to my high school in my district (long story, don't ask). You HAVE to live in that district if you want in. Either that, or you can argue your way in, which is exactly what we did. We had to come up with proof as to why I couldn't go to my old school, why the new school was better for me, and even then I had to go through two appeals to be accepted. It took almost 8 months to get me accepted, but I was, and I ended up going to that high school for my senior year. I was one of maybe 10 people that were accepted as transfers in my county for that year.

[jackrock]

What kind of messed up system are they running down there? Gahh!

[ggirlballa]

i aleady live in the district of the high school i want to go in. i live in the district of both of the high schools involved. the thing is the boundries are different.

my other friend said to tell the people that i'm living with them & thats why its not under our name or thats its our grandma etc

u used a transfer, so u did it the "legal" way. damn i'm starting to wish i had applyed for a permit:(

[jabumbo]

whats so bad about the other school that you can't go there?

[ggirlballa]

whats so bad about the other school that you can't go there?


its incredibly far and its more dangeous & the education isn't as good and i don't know anybody going there..i would be a loner there:(

[DIGI]

I think you, Brenda, and Dylan should all meet at the Peach Pit and brainstorm over milkshakes. I'm sure you'll think of a zany/mildly dramatic solution.

[Pres Zount]

Just start turning up at the school that you want to go to. I'm sure they will appreciate the dedication, and just let you keep turning up.

[DroppinScience]

What kind of messed up system are they running down there? Gahh!

Exactly. I don't think we had "boundaries" of where to go to school (I went to the closest school in the area, but I don't think I was limited to it). You could've been from any area of town and they wouldn't care.

[-T-]

So I assume you have actually contacted the school and made an effort to enroll their and they replied you have to go to the school within you boundaries? Thats weird I knew a few people when I was in high school that chose what high school they wanted to attend.

[icy manipulator]

What kind of messed up system are they running down there? Gahh!
man, america is a weird country.

going to a private cant be that expensive there can they? i went to an anglican school and they're pretty expensive, but catholic schools are cheap in comparison. just sit thru their one hour of "jesus is so great" lecture each week and you'll be sweet (y)

[Pres Zount]

You pay for catholic schools with a ruined future.

[na§tee]

not everyone can afford the privileges of education you received, icy.

[icy manipulator]

You pay for catholic schools with a ruined future.
true that. some of my friends that stayed on at the catholic primary school i went to turned out a little weird

[icy manipulator]

not everyone can afford the privileges of education you received, icy.
yeah i could get into an decent arguement about this but i cbf. yes, i went to a decent school, but it was no where near the best/most expensive school in brisbane. also my parents are not that well off to send me to the best school blah blah blah. anything i get in life is from my own hard work. so dont try to make me out to look like a spoilt little brat

[na§tee]

i'm not. it's just that your immediate solution to ggirlballa's problem was "why don't you pay some money to go to a private school. i went to a really expensive school, but even the cheaper-than-my-school-was options can be good, sometimes, too!"

[icy manipulator]

i was curious about how expensive private school is in america. that's all. i know it can be pretty expensive over that, i just wanted to know how expensive. you cant be that surprised that you looked pretty bitchy to me from that post? and my REALLY EXPENSIVE SCHOOL was not a special school at all

[na§tee]

okeydokey.

[Documad]

I'd guess it's about $15,000 US per year for private school here. Very few of my friends are affording to send their kids. Years ago, my boss was paying $20,000 per year for kindergarten and she laughed about how her kid did nothing sit on a mat and drink orange juice for that money. But her kid was in the pipeline that's necessary if you want your kid to eventually be in the best private high school.

I have a friend who paid to go to the government-run high school because she lived close to the border of school districts and wanted to go to the better high school on the other side. She thought about lying and saying she lived with her grandma who lived in the district, but it's illegal and if she got caught, I suspect her diploma would be in jeopardy. She and her parents paid several thousand dollars a year for public school.

[Genocide Tulips]

I never heard of this before. we had people from towns an hour away going to my high school and I am still baffled why they decided to go there.

[milleson]

I lived on the wrong side of the dividing line for high schools.

Instead of being able to walk down the street (the same fucking street I lived on) to get to the nearest high school, I had to drive/be driven 7 miles in the opposite direction to get to my school.

And private school kids can stfu.

[ggirlballa]

I lived on the wrong side of the dividing line for high schools.

Instead of being able to walk down the street (the same fucking street I lived on) to get to the nearest high school, I had to drive/be driven 7 miles in the opposite direction to get to my school.

And private school kids can stfu.

exactly! i live 2 streets away 2 STREETS! from the high school i'm not allowed to go to! and the one i have to go to is in another fuckin city!:mad:

[milleson]

Stick it to the man! :mad:

[QueenAdrock]

Exactly. I don't think we had "boundaries" of where to go to school (I went to the closest school in the area, but I don't think I was limited to it). You could've been from any area of town and they wouldn't care.

Apparently it's hard to switch schools in Montgomery County because we have some really shit schools in kinda crappy areas (lower income areas), to some really amazing schools that are in the rich and snotty areas (Potomac). Everyone's trying to transfer into the really amazing schools and they're already over enrolled as it is because this county is overpopulated from people moving in, so transfers are hard. I said I wanted to go from my old high school (a decent but painfully average one) to my new high school (nationally ranked for several programs and was in the ridiculously high-income part of town), well, it was hard. Everyone wants to do that. Everyone wants to have a quality education that can get them into better colleges, especially the parents. Everyone fights to get into the nationally-ranked schools.

Bush wants to prolong this problem too, he's proposing a new initiative that will allow kids to "transfer from failing schools into schools of higher achievement." How about this, dickface. MAKE THE FAILING SCHOOLS BETTER. Invest more time and money. Not everyone can transfer schools if theirs sucks, because the high-achieving schools will be over-enrolled.

The system needs to be fixed, not ignored.

[kll]

My best friend in high school had to do the same thing. Her parents got divorced and her mom couldn't afford to stay in our area, so she used our address to stay in the school district. Back then, we didn't have to provide proof of a bill or anything. My advice would be if the bill is in a man's name, then tell them it's your mother's boyfriend and if in a woman's name tell them it's your father's girlfriend.

[ggirlballa]

well i think the problem is resolved hopefully

my mom called my friend's mom & she suggested that we change 1 of our bills to her address but keep the service in our address....so when we show them the bill its in our name & their address

my mom called the water company or gas whatever & changed the address

now i gotta wait for the bill to arrive which should be around the 18th then my friend will give it to me at school & then go into the high school & enroll with my grades & bill


*does happy dance*

[milleson]

Ok, just to to reiterate how much of a pain in the ass public schools can be...

My little boy starts kindergarten in the fall. To register him in school, I had to come up with:

1. Birth certificate
2. Shot record
3. Social Security card
4. Two proofs of residency, chosen from the following:
........a) Voter Registration card
........b) House contract or lease agreement
........c) Utiliy bill