How do other parents with school kids manage to do it without missing a year or more of schooling if all schools are on the waiting list and schools wont place kids until they are physically in Qatar with a RP. Logically speaking, where none of this seems logical to me, parents would wait in their home country until their kids finish school before moving to Doha. However that leaves the parents with just a few months at best in Doha to get their kids placed in a school. That's seems like a big risk to me. Do parents actually take that kind of risk where their kids could be left out in the cold (or Doha heat) with no school. To be honest, the thought of missing a whole year of school or even home schooling is absolutely terrifying.