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Child Support Question

At present, DSD is going to school online through a tuition-based online high school program. I don't know which one, but since its private I doubt they would tell us the address.

Supposedly it is cheaper than the private Christian school she was at last year. She is hoping to get her into Homewood Flossmoor high school for senior year based on her sister's (DSD's aunt)'s address. I told her she needs to look into the residency requirements as I'm sure they are quite strict. I don't know/doubt she listened to my advice.


Anyhow, thanks for all your advice and help and ideas. I will post again when I find the CS order.
 
Um, that's our HS. LMK if it happens and you need anything. I am friends with the principal, asst principal & several teachers. Plus DD14 is pretty sneaky when given a task. ;)

Now I wonder who the aunt is. :lol:
 
lol, the aunt is childless, just lives in the district.

Dragonfly do you remember the residency requirements? Up here, they started requiring us to show either proof of current tax bill with our name on it, or current lease, plus I think also utilities in our name?

DSD's mom would have none of that, I can't imagine why they would let her go to school there.....I mean, sure, would be nice, but if that's not where her mom lives then why allow an extra student in :dunce:
 
Here they just have to sign a paper that says they are living with the in-district relative, as long as the relative has a valid deed/mortgage/lease.

Much harder for districts to deal with because of all the foreclosures & transient families.
 
They will allow an aunt/uncle situation IF they are the child's legal guardian. That being said, there are A LOT of kids living with relatives here, so there may be a loophole or an easy way around this. Everyone has to prove residency: mortgage/rent, 2 utility bills.
 
I know tons of families who foreclosed out of their homes and live with grandparents and/or adult siblings (like sisters live together with their kids, etc, or a married couple w/kids moves in with her brother, etc).

There are many people who are living with their families and have no way to truly prove that they are living there. Someone else is paying the mortgage/lease.

It is a difficult issue for the district to deal with.

We have a kid on our street (grandparents live here) who has been dropped off for the bus every day for the 7 years we have lived here.
 
dragonfly said:
They will allow an aunt/uncle situation IF they are the child's legal guardian. That being said, there are A LOT of kids living with relatives here, so there may be a loophole or an easy way around this. Everyone has to prove residency: mortgage/rent, 2 utility bills.
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Which legally they are not supposed to do (although most districts try). They can't mandate that any particular documents be produced to satisfy the residency requirements. Any child living with or without their parents in district is entitled to enroll as long as their living situation is not for the sole purpose of attending school in that district. Legal guardianship is not required for a student living with other relatives to enroll in the district.

In terms of foreclosures/transient families, those students also have the right to enroll in the district where they are "staying" as they are then considered to be admitted under the Illinois Education for Homeless Children Act.
 
I thought the increase in homeless students might have had an effect Joy.

I know when I first inherited my nephew the district wanted all sorts of info (i.e. legal guardianship) for me to register him. I was just a stubborn pest and got him registered. That was before I learned how to say F.U. in legal terms :lol:
 
skincarekathy said:
I thought the increase in homeless students might have had an effect Joy.

I know when I first inherited my nephew the district wanted all sorts of info (i.e. legal guardianship) for me to register him. I was just a stubborn pest and got him registered. That was before I learned how to say F.U. in legal terms :lol:
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Most districts still push the lease/mortgage/utility bill thing. The main reason is that no matter what the subject no one usually reads the ISBE's guidance on anything (particularly special ed matters!). It generally comes back to bite them in the **** if a parent pushes the issue.

I could tell you a story about when my kids were in junior high that would make you :eek: with shock at how far an administrator would go to "prove" that my kids weren't enrolled in the proper district.

How far I stuck it up his :sex: in proving he was not only wrong but way out of bounds would make you :lol:
 
skincarekathy said:
I mostly took the quiet civil disobedience route, but it doesn't surprise me at all that you were more, uh, vocal :lol:
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Well, here's the short version. Ex-DH and I not only have joint custody, we have joint physical custody of our kids (when they were minors) in our divorce decree. This gives them legal residence in both houses. They could live in either place solely or bounce back and forth every other night if they wanted and still be legally entitled to enroll in either district.

Most of the time post divorce we lived in the same town so this was not a big deal, although a copy of our custody order did have to be on file with the district.

When they were in junior high I moved out of Elk Grove and right across the line into Mt. Prospect (literally right over the line) and ex-DH stayed on the Elk Grove side. So, when the kids were with me I'd drive them to school or to the bus stop by his house in the morning before work.

Well some nosey mother complained to the school that my kids weren't EG residents and I was driving them from MP to EG. So what did the administrator do?

Sat outside my apartment in the morning and the evening for a month and took pictures of us coming and going. Yes, he did. :faint:

Without consulting anyone else or the district's attorney, he sent us a letter informing us they had been dropped from the enrollment for being non-residents and their files transferred to the MP district for enrollment. :faint:

We went round and round on the phone and he wouldn't budge. I was more pissed that he was taking PICTURES of us than the residency thing because I knew I was right and it would get sorted out.

I ate his **** alive, then I called my divorce attorney (and my ex-DH who was LIVID that he was taking pictures) and THEY ate him alive. my attorney gave the district's attorney such a spanking :lol:

You never saw someone eat so much crow as he had to when we all had to meet for him to apologize for his way over the top and illegal behavior :)
 
icoupon2 said:
Well, here's the short version. Ex-DH and I not only have joint custody, we have joint physical custody of our kids (when they were minors) in our divorce decree. This gives them legal residence in both houses. They could live in either place solely or bounce back and forth every other night if they wanted and still be legally entitled to enroll in either district.

Most of the time post divorce we lived in the same town so this was not a big deal, although a copy of our custody order did have to be on file with the district.

When they were in junior high I moved out of Elk Grove and right across the line into Mt. Prospect (literally right over the line) and ex-DH stayed on the Elk Grove side. So, when the kids were with me I'd drive them to school or to the bus stop by his house in the morning before work.

Well some nosey mother complained to the school that my kids weren't EG residents and I was driving them from MP to EG. So what did the administrator do?

Sat outside my apartment in the morning and the evening for a month and took pictures of us coming and going. Yes, he did. :faint:

Without consulting anyone else or the district's attorney, he sent us a letter informing us they had been dropped from the enrollment for being non-residents and their files transferred to the MP district for enrollment. :faint:

We went round and round on the phone and he wouldn't budge. I was more pissed that he was taking PICTURES of us than the residency thing because I knew I was right and it would get sorted out.

I ate his **** alive, then I called my divorce attorney (and my ex-DH who was LIVID that he was taking pictures) and THEY ate him alive. my attorney gave the district's attorney such a spanking :lol:

You never saw someone eat so much crow as he had to when we all had to meet for him to apologize for his way over the top and illegal behavior :)
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OMG :faint:
 
skincarekathy said:
Bueller? Bueller?

So creepy, him taking photos!
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I was so f-ing mad. The other side to it is that he was making noises that my kids were "unattended" after school until I picked them up and brought them home "ranging from 8 to 8:30 p.m., leaving the minor children unattended for up to 5 hours after school and raising questions about their safety, dinner, and ability to complete their homework".

Hey ****, they got off the bus at their dads at 3:30, did homework and at dinner before I picked them all up at 4:45 because I was coaching my daughter's cheer squad through the park district while their dad coached football. :rant: THAT really pissed me off. Here we are two exes devoted to the cheer/football program in town spending HOURS and HOURS on the field each week (together no less) and this **** made it sound like they were neglected latch key kids. :slap:

Of course that could be the reason the whole town thought ex-DH and I were married for YEARS after our divorce was final :roll:
 
dragonfly said:
If the order has an end date, he should be able to go to court & have it stopped on that date. If he was paying through his employer, the end date should be sufficient to just stop the payments without going to court.

My DH did not have an end date with SS25. ExW was able to drag her feet FOR A YEAR before we were able to get it stopped.

I am counting down the days until SD17 graduates May 2014, too. :lol: Can. Not. Wait.


MomOf2Girls, is your friend in IN? I think IN can go until 21 or 22 or something with college.
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Ironic you mention IN, I assumed it was IL. It actullay is in IN. He said he is waiting for the proper paperwork to have it stopped. He is thinking 3-6 months.
 
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