What Could Be Worse Than Being Subject To One Local Government?
by Vince Daliessio
...being subject to TWO;
Schools suing for $35K tuition
Forest Hills pursues family whose house was on border
James and Linda Huegel sent their two children to the Forest Hills School District, and now the school board is suing the couple for $35,485 in back tuition from 1993 to 1999.
The district says the couple lived in the 8000 block of Forest Pine Drive, which was in the West Clermont School District at the time, according to the suit filed in Clermont County Common Pleas Court. The residence was transferred to the Forest Hills district in 2000.
Forest Hills sued the couple in October 2000, but Clermont County Common Pleas Court ruled it did not have jurisdiction until the Ohio Department of Education ruled. The district turned to the Court of Appeals, which agreed with the trial court's decision. The Ohio Supreme Court refused the case.
The Department of Education ruled in June that the Huegels were not Forest Hills residents before the 1999-2000 school year and that their attendance was unauthorized. On Aug. 19, the Forest Hills School Board demanded full payment of tuition, but the Huegels haven't paid, the lawsuit said.
Ohio law says that school districts must provide free public education to students living within their geographic borders, but districts are allowed to set tuition amounts for out-of-district residents who want to enroll.
Part of the Forest Pine residence is located in Clermont County, and part of it is in Hamilton County, said Bronston McCord, attorney for Forest Hills.
So, to review;
The Huegels live not only in two different school districts, but two different counties. That's a total of 4 different force monopolies.
They send their kids to the same school as all of their neighbors.
They paid taxes to two different school districts.
The state of Ohio approved of one of the force monopolies confiscating tuition dollars not from the other school district, which the Huegels apparently paid more of their taxes to, but from the parents.
Is anyone not getting why public education is an expensive abomination, that must be abolished?
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