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It Is Now Impossible To Send My Son To Public School Without Paying Tuition. Is This Legal?

Context: We live on a military facility in Alabama. This particular posting offers on-base middle and elementary school, but not high school. This means all on-base children have to go off-base for school after the 8th grade.

We have the choice of sending our children to one of 5 neighboring districts, 2 County systems and 3 city systems. This is a very rural area in Alabama, and only one of these districts is well funded. Most on-base families choose this district, and many other non-military families choose to apply for waivers to attend here as well.

4 years ago this district decided to start charging tuition for non-resident students. This meant military and non-military children now had to pay a yearly fee to attend. The district justified this by saying it was to pay for excess materials needed to house the surplus students. As a result, many non-military families chose to stay at their local schools and military families chose other schools.

The tuition also scales each year you attend. For example, Freshman year is $1200 per student and Senior year is $2400 per student.

This was not a huge deal at first; but, in the 4 years since, the 4 other adjacent districts implemented the same policies. This keeps non-military families in their local districts.

However, military families are subject to tuition in each district tuition policy because we live outside the district. Because we don't have am on-base high school, this means that all our options charge tuition. This means it's impossible for our children to attend public high school without paying thousands of dollars.

Military parents have organized against this, but the schools have stood firm and the Army hasn't made it a priority either.

To make it even more annoying, the schools still mandate military children fill out and return "Blue Cards" which send federal money to these schools for housing military children on top of the tuition.

So my question is, how is this legal?

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