I agree, I looked this up to see if I am being unreasonable in asking to move because of being in pain. My fibromyalgia and degenerative pain go down significantly in warm weather and I feel held hostage in the freezing Northeast in pain every day. I dream of going from a 10 pain to a 2 rated pain in warmer weather. Thinking of leaving a long term relationship who is not interested in moving and helping me to feel more energized again.

This is what to do in order to find a good new school. Firstly make a numbered list of the schools that are located in the area. Visit them one by one. Use a typed up checklist to make things that much simpler. Interview some of the key staff and try to watch a lesson in progress in any case. That way you will be able to decide. Best wishes. Pick a school that fits your child’s personality. Not the other way around.

Read beyond the lines of the report too. Note down what is good and bad about the school in question as well. Talk to a few different pupils at the school in addition here. Make some brief summary notes. Pay very close and careful attention to what is currently going on in the school. Inquire about the exams, trips, homework, clubs, lessons and food. Try to have a face to face meeting with the Head about all of that stuff. This is important. Seriously.

Discuss the fees only at the end of the meeting. See if you can talk to people who are working at the local library and so on about the quality of education offered within the school. Request their opinion as a precaution. As you walk around the school, glance quickly at the classroom walls. If they are totally bare get a explanation quickly. Take a notepad. And a pen.

The classroom walls need to be covered completely within any school. In other words you should not expect to see boring walls at all. Insist on being shown a copy of the weekly menu, and view a copy of the school policies. If there are any old newspaper articles on the school read them all. Check out the website of the school. Often it will contain a lot of further information that can be really useful to read. Look for the glaring discrepancies in the reports. Highlight them.

Trust your gut feeling. Consider what it is trying to tell you. Take your own sweet time to check the finer details. You can do this. Make only helpful recommendations. Understand what is not said. Breathe in and out deeply. Smile. Relax. Get to know a bunch of the other parents. Speak to them. Appear friendly.

Meet again later on with the head to discuss volunteering to read and the like. Avoid all silly pointless quarrels however. You ideally want to be confident but not stupid. Forget money or size of the classrooms, neither are particularly important. If you have picked the right school you will know. Trust me on this.

I thought we had it bad ! But some of you people are having a terrible time with nasty neighbours . Mine moved in not so long ago and keep criticising my friend who lives with me . He does hoard stuff and now has been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease . He was homeless a few years ago and had nowhere to go and being a widow I was lonely . My home is detached but still the neighbours opposite and just down the road complain about us and where we park and my friends car being very old and the way he dresses . They threaten me and now we we are over 80 I am very upset . I have been here in this house for nearly 40 years , and we used to have lovely neighbours who have now died These newish neighbours said we were causing a rat problem when in fact everyone round here had them each Spring .
They said I should move in to an apartment and get rid of my friend and his car.
Its really outrageous .
I thought of getting legal advice but its very expensive.

I know you’re trying to be helpful Patsy, but it doesn’t always work that way.
I had a tornado insurance claim check for my old house that I’m moving out of, asked to change address with State Farm ins so the check would go to new house. Adjuster said she wasn’t able to change the address. Life isn’t as black and white as you make it out to be. It is the responsibility of the postal service to be able to handle a COA.