Posted on 04/05/2005 12:03:05 PM PDT by television is just wrong
SUNNYVALE (KRON) -- Some 300 students heading into one of the five high schools in the Fremont Union High School district were sent home early and for good Monday.
"We asked them to come to the office, we called their parents and told them they don't go to school here anymore," said Superintendent Steve Rowley.
The school district is enforcing a policy that limits enrollment to only those students who can prove that they live in the district.
In the past, looser enforcement has allowed parents from as far away as Milpitas, Fremont, and South San Jose to do whatever they could to enroll their kids in the district. Many of them are drawn to the academic excellence of the district's five schools.
"We've heard of parents renting apartments for two months, moving clothes into other people's homes, renting post office boxes for $500 a month," Rowley said.
But the school district says it now has a budget crisis and can no longer handle the extra students.
Parents who do live in the district support the district's actions.
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Sunnyvale High School is built on the mouth of a hell hole. They're lucky they were expelled.
(EXTREMELY nuanced humor alert in three... two... one....)
Well, what do they expecting, building a school on the Hellmouth?!
Dan
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Wow! I went to elementary school in Sunnyvale! Never had any idea it was such a magnet or center of academic excellence.
"We've heard of parents renting apartments for two months, moving clothes into other people's homes, renting post office boxes for $500 a month.."
PO boxes for $500 per month?
I'm not sure I'd want my student-child exposed to such inferior consuming practices.
Yes, isn't that where Buffy fought the forces of evil?
That's sunnyDale... DALE!!
Though it is quite amazing that Sunnyvale is considered a great school... tells you all you need to know about california schools.
This is school choice under the socialist policies of our monopoly school systems...
"The school district is enforcing a policy that limits enrollment to only those students who can prove that they live in the district. "
I caught that in the article. The STUDENTS need to prove they live in the district, not the parents of the students. I don't know if i should chalk that up to bad reporting, or if those are the actual rules.
Flat enrollment means a tax increase. Increased enrollment means a tax increase. Falling enrollment means a tax increase. At least that's how they s'plain it to us in our school district. And they do it with a straight face!
Wow....right after basketball season....
but, but what about "pro-choice?" isn't California for choice and tolerance?
One could be a student and be over 18 depending on when your birthday is and whether or not you passed every year. Also they could be emancipated minors or orphanage dwellers. The actual rule probably has the standard school litany ("student, parent, gaurdian, or appropriate legal representative").
Yikes. Real estate prices are out of control in California before. In Ohio you can get a whole apartment for $500/month.
California for choice and tolerance - as with all things in this great country and I am sure in your community, some people are for choice and one would hope for tolerance. I do not think our tolerance includes people breaking the law or community statutes.
What, no Sarah Michelle Gellar pictures? :)
I'd rent them mine for $450.
Probably the actual rules.
There was a case in our school district where the child was living with the grandmother, even though the parents were still legal guardians, just so the child could go to a particular school.
Mayor Hahn of Los Angeles was interviewed about a week or so ago and said that ONE THIRD OF THE KIDS IN LOS ANGELES PUBLIC SCHOOLS CANNOT EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH!
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