Gauger says the district should get the issue ironed out because the numbers of children experiencing homelessness are increasing.

A woman in North Carolina is suing a school district, alleging officials forced her children to switch schools while they experienced homelessness.

The suit from the mother, identified as K.L., claims Gaston County Schools; Lisa Phillips, state coordinator for Education of Homeless Children; and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction failed her children when the district forced the children to leave their original schools while already facing the trauma of homelessness.

The 17-page lawsuit filed on Jan. 26 states K.L. was evicted from her residence in September 2023 while her children were students at New Hope Elementary and Cramerton Middle School.

With two children and nowhere to go, the suit states the disabled veteran mother switched both children to car riders while searching for steady housing. While the family remained in the same city, they were not located in the same school zone following the eviction.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
    101·
    9 months ago

    I imagine it was because they no longer technically had a mailing address in the district. Would have been a nice thing if the school district had let it slide, at minimum until the start of summer vacation but they decided that wasn’t the priority. Better ten kids not get an education vs one poor kid get a good one is our motto apparently.

    • tygerprints@kbin.social
      21·
      9 months ago

      That’s a pretty lousy reason to kick kids out of school. IF that’s really what it’s all about, the article didn’t make that clear at all.

      If anything the school district should step in at that point and offer to help the family instead of shitting all over them when they are in such terrible circumstances.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        If they had done that would we have heard about it? No one is going to read/click/comment on an article “school district has issued exception about residency requirements to allow students to finish the year”.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        The law is whatever you want it to be ever since Roe v. Wade was gutted. A clump of cells has more rights than a woman. My dead body will have more legal rights than 52% of our citizens.