Wow. I have to admit, this conversation is making me feel terrible about having moved my daughter from a city school with a history of violent incidents and a poor academic record, to a VERY rural area an hour away, between middle school and high school in a district that, apparently, was LOADED.
The education she got and the attentiveness of staff when she started acting out was incredible, and they had every resource you can imagine for parents and students... the online attendance and gradebooks, free busing, after school activities (bowling, even Prom) at no cost... but she DID act out, and I wonder if she was more unhappy than she let on. She was "protected" since it was a new area where I knew nobody I could talk to about where it was safe for her to go, and with whom.
Until I felt comfortable, she was on a short leash. By then she'd been misbehaving and gotten caught in lies, so the "restrictions" continued, and so did the acting out. UGH. It is so hard to raise kids. You end up meaning well, but in hindsight, wonder if you should not have made different choices.
I'd like to know what precipitated the mid-year move. Generally you have to enroll your kids in the school for the district where they live within 10 days of a move unless they are in a terminal grade or receiving special services that the new school does not provide. For younger kids, after-school care may be taken into consideration as well.
Sending her to Fremont after the move, when her primary residence was with Marlene would have required a waiver from the school board.
