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    Default Enrolling in School Without Parent's Support

    My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Michigan

    A young woman we know is planning to leave home as soon as she turns 17. In Michigan, she can do this and there are no legal avenues her father can take to force her to return home or place her under court supervision for the act of leaving. She has two good, healthy, stable options for a place to go, but neither one is in the school district in which her father lives and transportation to/from school would be a hardship if not an impossibility for either family. She also has one much less positive, less stable option that is in her current school district (living with her boyfriend).

    So my question is, would she be able to change schools on her own? She's old enough to drop out, which is my fear for her because she's that desperate to get away from her abusive, controlling father, so it seems like she should also be old enough to enroll on her own but I've read that 17 year olds still need their parents to return to school after dropping out which makes me think she would still need her father's consent.

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    Only the school districts in question can answer that.

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    If her father is abusive. She or someone she knows needs to call CPS. Allmost every 17:year olds think their parents are abusive and controlling.

    Being a grown up is not easy. She will have to do countless things in her life she does not like doing nor does she want to do. How will she support herself ? If she plans on going to college and needs government assistance paying for it. She will have to have her parents information and signatures twice a year.

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    In Michigan, she can do this and there are no legal avenues her father can take to force her to return home
    That may be but a minor requires parental permission for so many things.

    Does she have a driver’s license? That may just go away. Does she have a job? Maybe not for long.

    So my question is, would she be able to change schools on her own?
    In my area, no (6 different school systems within 20 miles). She can ask the schools involved though

    and although she may have a place to go, for the moment, you might be surprised how quickly a guest turns into a pain in the ass and the hosts are asking them to leave, especially if they are not contributing to the household in meaningful ways. She’s talking about an entire year here.


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    The student cannot sign Permission Slips for activities. If the student gets injured. one of the parents has to give permission for her to be treated. The student is Not an adult as far as the school and school district is concerned. She will need one of her parents permission to get a job. She cannot open a bank account on her own.

    She needs to stick it out at home until she is 18. She might think she has it bad now. But she has no idea what her life will be like after she moves out. She needs to learn how to get along with others,even when it is difficult. That includes her father. If there is really abuse there. CPS can step in. She has no guarantees of how it will be when she lives with those that said they will take her in. Teenagers do not look at the entire picture. They only look at right now.

    If she drops out of school. How will she support herself ? She won't be able to get a job without her parents permission and a GED. And the jobs she could get with only a GED will not pay her enough to pay her rent, utilities, food, transportation, health insurance, cell phone, clothing, shampoo, laundry detergent, washing and drying clothes, etc.

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