Schooling?

Question

My friend Pete joined the navy & will soon be out of A school and will have his family move to the first base. His 17 yr old daughter has been out of school for 2 years due to health reasons. Will she be allowed to go to school on the base? Who do they need to talk to about this?

She had a nervous breakdown, due to a misdiagnosis of bipolar med. This resulted in a broken leg & arm. Then her mom was pregnant and off her bipolar meds & so the daughter stayed home to help mom out.
She has had some tutoring, but nothing solid. We have been giving her reading lists for high school, but are unable to teach science & math. She wants to go back to school, but doesn't think she would be allowed back in due to her age.

Answer 1

The first question will be if the family will be able to live on post (--uh BASE for Navy) at all.

But the bottom line is that she will go to whatever school the other kids in her neighborhood go to. DoD has worked out contracts with the local communities for getting military family members enrolled / taken care of.

If she has been out of school for 2 years then your friend will have to talk with the school district about appropriate placement... has she been homeschooling any? Left while she was ahead? Lots of questions like that and Pete will probably want them to test her before deciding on the best placement.

DODEA schools are mostly overseas. I think this is the list of stateside bases that have schools at all:


Ft. Benning
Ft. Bragg
Ft. Campbell
Dahlgren
Ft. Jackson
Ft. Knox
MCAS Beaufort
Camp Lejeune
Maxwell AFB
Puerto Rico
Quantico
Robins AFB
Ft. Rucker
Ft. Stewart
West Point

I cannot say which ones have a high school - but like the other answer says, it is not many. You can research more at the sites listed below.

Good luck and congratulations to your friend and his family!

Answer 2

With so little info on why she was out of school and/or the health issue, I am going to go at this from two ways..what needs to be done from a military standpoint and then the educational one.

The first thing you friend needs to do is enroll in the EFMP program. This is a program for military members with dependents with health, emotional or educational issues that must be known when being sent to a new base. Many military members will refust the program as it can limit your options for duty stations BUT if you have a child who must see certain specialists, needs to be placed in specialized classrooms or must have access to certain treatments or meds, it is a must. Not all bases are located in areas that can provide these services. If a member doesn't enroll and is then sent to an area that can not meet the needs of the family member, the family would either have to get an emergency transfer or move while the military member stays behind. EFMP protects dependents and ensures they get the services they need. Your friend should ask his supervisor at school how to go about enrolling now, so when he is given his first assignment the military will have the information it needs.

As for schooling...very few bases in the states have dept. of defense schools any longer. Most military kids attend the local public schools. If the base does have a DoDDs school, it is usually run in conjunction with the public schools and only the kids living on base may attend. All overseas bases have DoDDs schools. Once your friend knows where he is going, he should contact the appropriate school, expalin the situation and ask what he will need to do to enroll his daughter. All US schools must provide a free and appropriate education. If the child's health is such returning to a classroom is not an option (kids undergoing chemo for instance as they can not afford to be exsposed to colds and illness) the school will have to provide in home tutors. As she has missed so much school, she will more than likely be tested to see where she is at academically and then be placed from there. Again, EFMP is critical here. Most overseas base schools are not equipped to handle kids with exceptional special needs...be it educational or physical..so being sent to Japan is probably not going to happen. Of course, if she progresses and recovers, things can change and options will increase. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Very few military bases have high schools on base.

Only two that i know of in the US:

Fort Campbell and Fort Knox.

Fort Hood and Fort Bragg, might, but I have never heard that they did.

She will end up going to school in the local school district at the local high school.

So they would talk to the local high school off base, at his first duty station.

Answer 4

Just about every Navy base Stateside does NOT have a HS on base, she will have to go through the local School system, and follow their regs.