<p>I was wondering how I could get released from my district, pylusd, to go to troy high school. I am zoned for a high school known for drug problems! Thanks!</p>
<p>Are there any Magnet programs in any high schools in your county? That’s a good way out of your zoned school. Magnet programs are pretty attractive as well, for students. I go to a school with an Information Technology initiative. I love it. Or at least, as much as you can love high school.</p>
<p>You need to talk to your district. Every school district is different. Where I went to school, you can do what @awakeningvenus said or find a program that you want that the school doesn’t have. You could apply to and get into the magnet school (which I did). Another acceptable reason was being on a track for something- my base school didn’t have multivar, which would have allowed me to pupil place at a different school (looked into this for if I didn’t get in to the magnet school). Foreign languages is another- my brother was pupil placed because our base school didn’t have German and a friend of mine did the same for japanese. You could also go to an IB school. You can always transfer to a private school.</p>
<p>Again, you need to ask your school district how to proceed and have a legitimate reason. Reputation for drug problems is not an acceptable reason. My middle school (which actually wasn’t my base school, it was a GT center) was known for gang problems. But guess what, I felt safer there than my brother did at the base school! If the school knows there is a problem, they are more vigilant for it. Fights never really happened at my school and the few that I know of, the instigator got expelled. However, where my brother went, their attitude was “what problem” and kids got hurt. Somebody was robbed before a dance and they interrogated a bunch of students- my brother was repeatedly attacked verbally and physically by a girl and nothing happened. So I would not freak out about a reputation- they’re often just that.</p>
<p>It depends on what grade you are in. Magnet schools often require entry in 9th grade. There are some public online high schools depending on where you live.</p>
<p>NFN, I live in a state with a VERY good reputation for education (always top three in the US by state), and there are drug problems in EVERY district.</p>
<p>Now, if you mean there are serious gang issues in the HS, that’s different than “drug problems”. </p>
<p>Realize that where you live = where you go to school. If you try to lie about where you live, your parents would be fined thousands of dollars if you attend public school in the wrong district because it is “better”. I have a friend who was doing this with his grandkids, and the parents were fined a lot of money and the kids were taken out of the incorrect district. It was a huge problem for them, and not worth it (they should have moved from Camden instead).</p>
<p>In most schools drug problems are pretty easy to avoid. Don’t do drugs. Nearly every school is going to have some kids using drugs. If there’s a lot of violence associated, that’s a little different. But you need to talk to your district. I’ll be surprised if they let you go out of district.</p>