[Chiapet]

"You mean people accessing a service thye pay for? The horror!"

Actually, you're wrong about them paying for the service. As someone pointed out in a post above, if the girl isn't part of the registered headcount for the school, then the school receieves no money for her. And as someone pointed out in a post below, if the school has to allow everyone who pays taxes into the school's programs, then they would have no right to exclude adults either.

[Born in a Rage]

That isn't true. Public schools can get funding for students who are only enrolled part time. Actually, it has inspired some public schools to start up 'home school programs'.

[Old North State]

I think the argument that the school doesn't receive tax money unless a student is registered doesn't hold water. Whether or not a particular school does or does not receive an allocation is a bureaucratic issue not one of taxpayer service. One could exclude all non property tax paying residents' children using that argument(You can't allocate what you don't receive). All schools are obliged to make every reasonable effort to educate, in the broadest sense, all legal residents who live within the district boundaries. This child could be excluded if she was eligible for school activities elsewhere as a condition of her residence, but this is clearly an example of "closed shop" retribution on the part of union obsessed government employees.

[Chode]

i get a SCHOOL TAX BILL every year!!! don't tell me they don't get any money for kids not there... i pay school taxes and all our kids are out of high school and i'll pay it till i die!!!

[Abby4116]

Actually, you're wrong about them paying for the service. As someone pointed out in a post above, if the girl isn't part of the registered headcount for the school, then the school receieves no money for her. And as someone pointed out in a post below, if the school has to allow everyone who pays taxes into the school's programs, then they would have no right to exclude adults either.

They may receive no federal or state money for an enrolled student, however, they do receive whatever local school tax money her parents pay (and can be a hefty sum, depending on the district).