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School Registration..... oh please

While registering my grand daughter in school for the upcoming year my daughter in law ran into quite a issue.

Seems that having a valid drivers license, bills in her name, and so forth, all coming to our home address is not sufficient these days.

 

In all my years of children going to school I have not ever heard that a legal license is not a valid proof of where you reside, it seems that even though my kids live with me, and I pay taxes that they are either supposed to have a "rental" agreement or be on the mortgage to my home. 

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Who the hell makes this stupid stuff up? Like people come on already!

Now my grandson is already a student within the school district, been there for awhile, so while they were whining about having to have this specific information, which was not required in previous years, they now are saying my grandson is illegally in the school.

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So which person didn't do their job correctly and what action will be taken? NONE!

Seems idiotic that I will need to miss work to submit paperwork of proof that I live in the township, does one office not speak to another, I mean I pay taxes, which pays their damn salaries, should they not at least work for the money?

But anyway I digress, I have no issues proving I live here, I think the system is insane though, for one must live within a specific demographic area to go to that specific school however the teachers can live where? Do they live within the specific mileage to allow then to be in here working! NOT

Well my personal opinion is people stop allowing people who do not live, pay taxes, shop, and such work in our school system here, the laws need to change to where teachers must reside in the district they work in, that administrators need to live within the district they work in, that all staff members need to live within a specific area.

We have teachers here in our home towns who would love to work close to home, who are tax paying individuals that care about this area.

So the powers that be need to listen and start working for our community, start working to better our system, start working period, get up do something! Pick up the phone and see if the information a person is putting down matches the county records.

I would love to have a job in the school administration office, the township office, I would love to be on the board, for there are so many wonderful qualities about our community and it seems that nothing gets done for the people.

While some might not agree with me, personally that does not matter, for if each parent, tax payer, here in our community would stop and think about the hoops the residence jump through, but the workers who do not live here don't, that is just completely unfair.

If the bigger stores would hire local managers, if the school would hire local workers, if the..... I am so sure you get it, our community would grow, our families would be more family oriented, our children would be better watched, "our" .....

In history local people worked local jobs kept local monies coming in, while yes in progress there comes travel, but if you are required to "prove" you live here to put your children in school then the staff should also, you don't make rules for one and not the other, you teach by example, you do not discriminate just because they are children. 

With all said I doubt the system will get changed, for
ignorance is bliss.....

 

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