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Too many requests for school change short circuits family plans for daughter
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Joni Costa said her daughter, who is graduating from eighth grade this school year from St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School, will be home schooled when she starts her secondary education in the fall.That is not by choice.Costa and her husband Manuel had decided early on to send their older child to Central Catholic High School in Modesto or St. Mary’s High School in Stockton. Unfortunately, Manuel got hurt on the job, plus the company where he worked as a truck driver in Manteca got sold last year leaving him without a job which forced them to make some changes due to their current fiscal situation.The Costa family lives in the area covered by Manteca High School; however, for a number of reasons they deemed beneficial to their daughter, they applied to have their older child enroll at East Union High School. She did not get accepted.