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Nov 5, 2009 - 23 13 |
One of my characters is a student at a prep school. He is attending on scholarship. His mother has terminal cancer and is dying. He has no father, no family that he knows of, so when his mother does finally pass, would he be taken out of prep school and put into foster care? Or are there arrangements that can be made so he can continue to board at the prep school? |
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Nov 5, 2009 - 23 25
How old is he and where does he live?
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Nov 5, 2009 - 23 39
I went to such a school. I think that if he's on full scholarship, the school would want to try to keep him there. The dean of financial aid usually gets pretty close to the scholarship kids, and she (or he) would want them to stay (assuming that he wants to do so). I would imagine the head of medical services also advocating for his staying in an environment where he is stable etc, and that person would usually be involved in instances of extreme personal stress/loss like this one.
I really don't know about the legal side, but these schools usually have money and I would think that they would try to work with the system so that he could stay. Maybe he could be "adopted" or placed in foster care with a willing parent of a day student (where he wouldn't be living with them but they could be a technical guardian & take him for breaks) with the understanding that he would stay in the school until he reached legal age?
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Nov 6, 2009 - 00 45
While it's not quite the same situation, I went to a private school that had a boarding house (about 10% of the students boarded) and one student's father got into financial trouble and killed himself. The mother was left with three children under seven, plus the older child in high school. The mother and younger kids moved out of state to live with the grandmother, but the eldest child wanted to stay at the school - the school provided a partial scholarship and she stayed at the boarding house in semester and went home for the holidays.