School Kids Being Picked up in Silver Lake?
 

I have noticed since school started how many kids there are living in Silver Lake! At first I thought it was grandparents babysitting and the bus picking them up but this morning I counted 5 golf carts and 3 cars sitting at the Jeffery Gate entrance waiting for the school bus and 4 of these golf carts were being driven by either the young mothers or the fathers. Do these people live in Silver Lake with these kids and if so, how do they get away with it? I counted 9 kids waiting for the bus and some were in cars and vans...right at the Jeffrey gate entrance.

They might be staying with family until they find housing of their own. Kids can stay for thirty days per year. Neighbors might be looking the other way and not reporting the kids living there. It may be that the parents drop the kids off there on the way to work and don't live in TV at all. Only way to know for sure is to ask and hope for honest answers. Unless reported, nothing will be done.

I understood children are eligible to attend the charter school if one or both of their parents work directly for The Villages or a direct subcontractor, or if a parent works for a business located within The Village. I don't think it would necessarily mean they resided in The Villages. This is how the educational system was explained to us while on the preview.

We would be the legal guardians of our 2 grandsons if something were to happen to both parents. We asked about the educational system and also understood living in the family section of The Villages does not guarantee the children would attend the schools. Our preview was a year ago and this may have changed or I may have misunderstood.

Silver Lake is not a family section of TV.

Not familar with that address where the bus is stopping, But maybe bigger question would be why is school bus stopping in silver Lake addition if that address or corner signs are in village of silver lake? During my search for homes I found three villages that children are allowed and Silver Lake wasn't one of them. Maybe the 55 and over rules are being bent or not enforced in the Historic side?

Until those who live there complain, nothing will be done. Home owners are being allowed to rent to anyone they want, and are disregarding the rules.

I'm complaining !!!! This is not. What I signed up for, we moved here for no children, please stop. This, and go back to retired adults , and be done with!!!!

There are several children that live or have lived here that I personally know of. I've had them as students many times. I was poo-pooed when I said it before.

Here is where you complain. Asking to please stop, on TOTV, is like blowing smoke in the air.

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Just curious, what is your definition of retired? If someone has a job, even part-time, will you let them live here? Pretty sure you would have a bunch of empty houses.....

Do you teach at the TV Charter Schools, or in the Lady Lake public schools?

I would figure some landlords are renting to young parents with kids.

Although "rules are rules", we didn't choose to buy here in order to have no kids around. That as a primary reason for choosing TV seems awfully isolated to me.

I'd also figure that maybe the kids are being dropped off at an adult home for before- and after-school supervision till the working parent starts/finishes work nearby.

I thought these kids were being dropped off by working parents but as I said, there are young mothers in their bathrobes sitting in golf carts, drinking coffee and waiting for the school bus at Jeffery gate. They clearly are living in Silver Lake somewhere. My neighbor told me tonight he rolled down his window one morning and asked 3 of these women where they were living. They all told him it was none of his business. Clearly they are flying under the radar.

I am not flying under the radar, but if someone rolled down their window and asked me where I lived I would tell them it's none of their business also.

Well maybe those who see the moms in bathrobes on the cart ought to call Community Watch who can follow them home.

I think this place has gotten so very large, all control and adherence to rules has been lost. Owners renting to young families you say? Who is to stop them? As someone else said, I did not buy here to live with school kids as my neighbor. There should be better reinforcement of the rules we all signed in agreement at closing. No one is talking Big Brother but come on.