NC School District

I had an interesting time today, trying to find out what the school boundaries are out here. We were planning on moving to a larger city before school started next year, but the kids caught wind of that plan and they were devastated. At first I was not caring about their two cents, but then I found the oldest crying about it. I took a second look at the situation and realized that all three kids have had the best year academically that they have ever had. They also did well socially. The town we live in is just very small and there is no mall for me to throw all of my money away. Soooo.. to make a long story short we decided that we would just stay put and find a place to live in the school district. Mind you I have moved twice this year and we now live on the second floor. We live in the "wrong" school area. I decided that I would look for a new place to rent. Well, I cannot just drive around and look for a place unless I know the boundaries for this said school. I called the school district and talked to five different people. The first lady passed me off to a lady that said she worked in the schools themselves and they had a map of the boundaries. My school said they do not have said map. She then passed me to transportation, because they have to have a map?! The lady in transportation said they did not have a map, but I could find a few houses and call her back with the address and she would look them up to see if they were in the school boundary. Now, this idea seems very lame to me. Why would I want to drive around and look at houses that I could maybe live in and then call and bug this lady constantly with new addresses? So, I told her nicely that I couldn't believe that no map existed. She then passed me off to another lady who would "know" if said map exists. This lady said they could not print out maps for everyone, because everyone would be coming down to get one. Instead everyone should call constantly when they found a house that "might " be in the schools boundaries. This make no sense to me. Then she passed me off to her supervisor and I tried to say as nicely as possible that it was nuts for me to drive around aimlessly and then call to see if the house I am looking at was in the school boundaries. He finally broke down and conceded that they do in fact have a map and I could come down to the district office and check it out. Of course I need to call first and see if someone is there because everyone has vacations to attend to in the next three weeks. All this just so the kids can go to the "good" school in town. I can't wait to go down and look at the map. It probably doesn't exist. Knowing my luck their pet raccoon will have eaten the only map they have right before I get to the office. Why oh why must everything be a trial for me???