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beautiful_k5

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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
i live in pa**************... i'm 16 and i have a 10 month old son. i just got an apartment 2 hours away from where i live. im tryin to get a full time job but i have to drop out of school first, the problem is that i have called the school that i'm going to and they said that i need a full time job first then i get drop, but i'm not going to be living in the same school district. so i called the school district that i'm moving to and asked them about that and they said that in order to drop out of their school i have to be enrolled in thier school which i'm not.... what should i do in order to drop out and get a full time jjob to pay for my apartment and take care of my child?What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
 


Isis1

Senior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
i live in pa**************... i'm 16 and i have a 10 month old son. i just got an apartment 2 hours away from where i live. im tryin to get a full time job but i have to drop out of school first, the problem is that i have called the school that i'm going to and they said that i need a full time job first then i get drop, but i'm not going to be living in the same school district. so i called the school district that i'm moving to and asked them about that and they said that in order to drop out of their school i have to be enrolled in thier school which i'm not.... what should i do in order to drop out and get a full time jjob to pay for my apartment and take care of my child?What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
where are your parents?
 

Isis1

Senior Member
my father has never been around
look, legally, unless you are emancipated, your mom could yank you out of school, yank you out of work, yank you out of your apartment at any given time until you are the age of 18.

and if your dad has established paternity, even with him being absent, also can do the same.
 

cbg

I'm a Northern Girl
Without your mother's EXPRESS permission, you cannot drop out of school, move out of her house, OR rent an apartment. Not at 16. And as Bella tells you, she can withdraw her permission at any time up to your 18th birthday.

There is no guarantee whatsoever that you are going to get to do what you want. Few employers are going to be willing to hire a 16 year old dropout with a baby. (If you do find one, you'll be lucky if you are making minimum wage.) Before you can drop out of school at 16, you need a valid work permit from the district in which you are living AND a full time job working 35 weeks or more. That is the law in PA no matter what district you are living in. If you must be enrolled in your new district to get a work permit, which you must have BEFORE you can get a job, and if you cannot drop out until you have the work permit AND the job, then the ONLY way this is going to happen is for you to enroll in school in the new district and get the work permit.

Did I happen to mention that you need the approval of the District Superintendent to get the work permit and that he has NO obligation to grant one? This is to prevent silly little girls like you thinking that they are adults on their own when they are still silly little girls. Don't bother telling me that you know what you are doing and that you're so much more mature than other 16 year olds and that I shouldn't judge you because I don't know you. If you weren't a silly little girl, you wouldn't be even imagining that you can support yourself and a child on what a 16 year old dropout is capable of earning.

So this is what you have to do, to answer your question:

1.) Enroll in school in the new district.
2.) Attend school until your new District Superintendent is convinced that you are adult enough and mature enough to be granted a work permit, and does so.
3.) With your new work permit and drop out status, find a full time job.
4.) Prepare to work every hour you possibly can in order to so much as break even.

Oh, and if you are laboring under the delusion that having a child means you are legally emancipated, think again. In NO state does having a child emancipate a minor; in fact, it makes it much, much HARDER to be emancipated. You are MEDICALLY emancipated yes, but LEGALLY emancipated, not hardly. You're not and you're not going to be. Your mother has complete legal and financial responsibility for you for another two years.

So you might want to be nice to her, because she can do more than make it hard for you - she can stop the plan right in its tracks any time she wants until your 18th birthday and not one minute before.
 

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