“So you don’t have an issue with what looks like a school using kids to get more federal grant money, even if it hurts their relationship with their family?”
Well, for one thing, I think “looks like” is the operative phrase in that sentence. This story is obviously written by someone sympathetic with the parents, but we can glean from the facts included that the child is legally an adult in his state and can make his own decisions about where he is going to live, and how he is going to register for school. It also means that it isn’t really the school’s business to worry about his relationship with his family.
It does not say he is legally an adult. it says the following:
” ...the local law enforcement, both county and city, told Deanna that at seventeen, her son could move out and they had no power to stop him.”
He is certainly NOT homeless. He has two options for shelter, his girlfriend and his parents.
It is the taxpayers’ business to worry about the school milking the system for homeless funds when the **boy** is obviously NOT homeless at all.