I have another question about foster children

[Alpo]

Both my younger brother and I were 17 when we graduated high school. My older brother, however, and my daughter, and my oldest granddaughter were 18. And the younger girl, a senior, will turn 18 in December. So apparently 18 year old high school seniors are not that uncommon.

 

Hypothetically, I have a foster kid. Billy. Billy is a 17 year old high school junior. And I provide him with food and clothing and shelter, and the state pays me. That's the way that works, right?

 

Next year, when Billy is a senior, in February he will turn 18. He will then be, legally, an adult.

 

I presume the state will no longer send me a check to take care of him? So I just kick him out in the street, four months shy of his high school graduation?

 

Or would the state continue to pay until the end of the school year, even though he is now legally an adult?

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Not addressing the foster issue but the 17-18 thing.

 

school systems have a rule about when a kid can start first grade, typically six by December or January one. Thus kids with bdays before June graduate at 18 and if after, 17.

[bgavin]

I started school a year later, due to November birthday and school requirement of age 6 on first day of school.

[Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L]

just info if you live in The Republic:

 

In Texas, a foster child who is 18 and still in high school may be eligible for Extended Foster Care, which allows them to remain in foster care until they are 21 or 22 years old: 

 

 

• Eligibility

  To qualify for Extended Foster Care, a foster child must be attending high school or a program that leads to a high school diploma or GED

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

I don't know about legally, but I like to think that if I was Fostering a kid in those circumstances, I would continue to help him out as long as he needed, PROVIDED he was a good kid who had gotten a bad deal. If he was trying, I would too.

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

Here the State will continue to pay.

[Alpo]

3 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Not addressing the foster issue but the 17-18 thing.

 

school systems have a rule about when a kid can start first grade, typically six by December or January one. Thus kids with bdays before June graduate at 18 and if after, 17.

When I went to school you had to be six before January 1st. So my younger brother and I - both November babies - started at 5. My older brother (March), my daughter (January) and older granddaughter (February) started at 6, almost 7. I was surprised to find that the younger girl (December) had to wait until she was 6. Apparently the rules changed in the 50 something years between when I started school and when she started school.

[Cactus Jack Calder]

43 minutes ago, Alpo said:

When I went to school you had to be six before January 1st. So my younger brother and I - both November babies - started at 5. My older brother (March), my daughter (January) and older granddaughter (February) started at 6, almost 7. I was surprised to find that the younger girl (December) had to wait until she was 6. Apparently the rules changed in the 50 something years between when I started school and when she started school.

Different criteria for different areas. In North Jersey 1949 I started kindergarten at 4 almost 5. The cut off was you had to be 5 before January 1st. I was born in early December and therefore I was one of the younger kids, though not the youngest. There was one boy in my grade who was born December 25th. Talk about getting short changed. “Here Freddy, your Christmas and Birthday present (singular) are in this box.”

 

Later in the 50’s the School Board changed the cut off to earlier in the years, though not the age criteria. I’ve no idea what they use now.

 

CJ

[Rye Miles #13621]

3 hours ago, bgavin said:

I started school a year later, due to November birthday and school requirement of age 6 on first day of school.

My son as well. He was born on October 10. 

[bgavin]

This is probably a good thing boys, being less mature at a given age than are girls.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

50 minutes ago, Cactus Jack Calder said:

 There was one boy in my grade who was born December 25th. Talk about getting short changed. “Here Freddy, your Christmas and Birthday present (singular) are in this box.”

CJ

That's part of the premise of my book "Bucksnort". My co author and best friend of 50 years was a Christmas baby, and he got that EVERY year. The kicker was that his brother, a year and three months older, often as not got the same presents he did.  

[Tooky Slim]

My younger brother was born on December 21st, and Mom and Dad brought him home on Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old, and my sister was seven. My parents got us all together and announced that we had gotten a baby brother, and what a wonderful Christmas gift that was for us. My sister started to cry, and told them to take him back, because she wanted a bike!

[Alpo]

2 hours ago, Cactus Jack Calder said:

There was one boy in my grade who was born December 25th. Talk about getting short changed. “Here Freddy, your Christmas and Birthday present (singular) are in this box.”

There's an online story where the younger brother is a Christmas baby. And his parents had what, to me, sounded like it and astoundingly brilliant solution.

 

Christmas morning he got Christmas presents from under the tree like everyone else. But at supper that night he got a birthday cake and birthday presents. And his brother and sister were expected to buy him both a Christmas present and a birthday present.

 

The older brother was a November baby. He got a birthday present and a Christmas present. Sister was a June baby. Got a birthday present and a Christmas present. Mom and Daddy said that that was fair for little brother too.