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Okay, scenario is as follows. An American woman marries a Canadian man and moves here illegally. She has a nine-year-old daughter, no ex appears to have any say in this child, and the child is also American. The school board (my employer) has denied the girl the right to attend school because, as an illegal alien, no one will be paying her fees. They want Mom to pay the fees ($9000 approximately) so she can go to school. Mom can't afford it, Stepdad can't even afford to sponsor his new wife properly or adopt the child let alone pay the fees, and the child has been homeschooled for two years as a result. She is not learning, probably because Mom doesn't know what she's doing and doesn't know how to find out. Oh, and the girl is special-needs, too, which means the education that's right for her would probably cost a lot more than the province would pay for to begin with.

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[iamradar.livejournal.com]

This woman has jumped the queue. If my students tried to do something they knew was wrong and then get the benefits of it later, I'd insist they went back and did it right, the way everyone else had to. We have standards; they're long, but they're not unreasonable, and this woman would probably qualify without much trouble. Why should she get away with it? Are the rules there for everyone except her?

This woman should have realized this from the start and instead of getting in over her head trying to home school the girl (of which she knew she was unqualified to do going into it) she should have taken the interests of her daughter into account and gone back to do things right. Is it sad that her daughter is going to wind up behind because of the actions of her parents? Sure. But the blame does not lie in policy or in the school board. It belongs to the parents needing to have done the right thing in the first place and as you put it 'not jumped the queue'.

To use a very simple description of accountability and responsibility: Bed, made, lie.

Just my .02. :-p