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re: Own expensive cars, large home - kid(s) in public school
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:22 pm to Big Scrub TX
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:22 pm to Big Scrub TX
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If a kid is motivated and has interested parents, then sometimes it's good to get a life lesson somewhere that isn't squeaky clean.
You would willingly put your kid in a difficult situation, with poor teachers and troublesome students to teach them a life lesson?
Sounds like a winning formula.
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Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:22 pm to Pecker
Pretty easy for my family.
Move to a district that places the highest standard on academics. Our system is rated top 3 consistently out of over 145 school districts in Georgia.
There are ways we manage to maintain this little utopia of high standard education.
1. Do not grow beyond the threshold that would require us to have a bussing system. All kids are taken to school and picked up by a parent excepting the high school kids who drive themselves. It requires hundreds and hundreds of parents commited to education to pull that off. Kids who live within the limits of our city school system but whose parents can't or simply refuse to drive their kids to school go to the county schools. A few county busses pass through our small city to take these kids to school.
2. We make sure that we do not grow beyond the "mandatory bussing" threshold by carefully managing development of residential zoning. Our "for sale" used home inventory is kept small and homes stay in high demand because over 40% of our students are out of district. Those students had to get on a waiting list to enroll and more often than not their parents get weary of the 25 mile drive twice a day after a while. But they would rather do that than to put them in the crappy schools where they live. Eventually, most of those parents look to move in district to be closer and to avoid the $2000 fee. Many if not most can afford the managed inflated home prices. Those who can't suck it up and continue commuting. There is one group who is factored out altogether. That is trash and riff raff.
3. Not only are the inflated home prices a deterrent......our property tax is 2 1/2 times the amount of neighboring towns and counties. You pay $1200 in property tax currently? Same size house will $3000 here. Big deterrent to insure that only those families commited to academic achievement are involved.
Screw private school with a system like this.
Move to a district that places the highest standard on academics. Our system is rated top 3 consistently out of over 145 school districts in Georgia.
There are ways we manage to maintain this little utopia of high standard education.
1. Do not grow beyond the threshold that would require us to have a bussing system. All kids are taken to school and picked up by a parent excepting the high school kids who drive themselves. It requires hundreds and hundreds of parents commited to education to pull that off. Kids who live within the limits of our city school system but whose parents can't or simply refuse to drive their kids to school go to the county schools. A few county busses pass through our small city to take these kids to school.
2. We make sure that we do not grow beyond the "mandatory bussing" threshold by carefully managing development of residential zoning. Our "for sale" used home inventory is kept small and homes stay in high demand because over 40% of our students are out of district. Those students had to get on a waiting list to enroll and more often than not their parents get weary of the 25 mile drive twice a day after a while. But they would rather do that than to put them in the crappy schools where they live. Eventually, most of those parents look to move in district to be closer and to avoid the $2000 fee. Many if not most can afford the managed inflated home prices. Those who can't suck it up and continue commuting. There is one group who is factored out altogether. That is trash and riff raff.
3. Not only are the inflated home prices a deterrent......our property tax is 2 1/2 times the amount of neighboring towns and counties. You pay $1200 in property tax currently? Same size house will $3000 here. Big deterrent to insure that only those families commited to academic achievement are involved.
Screw private school with a system like this.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:24 pm to Pecker
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You would willingly put your kid in a difficult situation, with poor teachers and troublesome students to teach them a life lesson?
This a straw man. In fact, your entire premise is a straw man.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:26 pm to Pecker
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:27 pm to ColdDuck
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Tests scores would be skewed. Private is only well off people whose parents give a shite. Public is a mix of everything. So the dumbass kids at the crappy public schools will skew the scores. I went to private and I am defending public, so Peckers statement about being forced does not hold water. The top tier Public schools are better than Private schools.
You realize your entire premise gets blown out of the water when they compare top sudents from public schools vs top students from private schools? Do you also understand that top public school students receive full scholarships to certain private schools?
I think you are also conveniently ignoring the teaching requirements at top tier private schools. Again, I'm sorry you had to go to a shitty private school and you didn't learn anything.
This post was edited on 8/16/15 at 9:30 pm
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:27 pm to Pecker
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entire premiss
And you want to make judgments about the quality of other people's educational choices? Wow.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:30 pm to Pecker
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You realize your entire premiss gets blown out of the water when they compare top sudents from public schools vs top students from private schools?
You realize you are using "top" vs "top?" Come live where it is normal and most are in the upper middle. That is my concern, the top will do well for themselves if they go to Harvard, Millsaps, or ULL
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:31 pm to Pecker
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Do you also understand that top public school students receive full scholarships to certain private schools?
What are you fricking talking about? It is the exact opposite here a-hole. Top Private students (and parents) beg on their hands and knees to even get looked at by BRH and LSULab school which are Public.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:32 pm to TxTiger82
Solid work on the typo. You must have gone to a really good public school.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:32 pm to Pecker
We are born with an IQ that stays within A few points our entire life. Maybe one school has the ability to jam more info in your kids head then the school down the street. Kids fail out of the best private schools in the country every year, just as Doctors Lawyers and professionals are produced from public schools all across the country. If your kid can't absorb the info, sending him to the best school in the world won't make a garbage man a Doctor. This is an over the top answer because you asked an over the top question. What about all of the people on this board going to public college?
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:32 pm to Pecker
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Solid work on the typo. You must have gone to a really good public school.
Indeed. And I also have a PhD. You?
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:33 pm to Pecker
I hate peckers.
This post was edited on 8/16/15 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:34 pm to ColdDuck
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What are you fricking talking about? It is the exact opposite here a-hole. Top Private students (and parents) beg on their hands and knees to even get looked at by BRH and LSULab school which are Public.
You're getting really emotional so we should probably take a break.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:36 pm to Pecker
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You would willingly put your kid in a difficult situation,
Such as living in an area with shitty public schools?
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:37 pm to Pecker
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You're getting really emotional so we should probably take a break.
Just beat Bama for once and we will be friends...it helps when they have an extra loss.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:37 pm to Pecker
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I understand if you can't afford a private school, but how can parents justify sending their kids(s) to a public school, while spending money overpriced homes in cookie cutter neighborhoods, vacations and expensive vehicles?
Not all of us live in shitholes, my local public school rivals if not surpasses many private schools.
This post was edited on 8/17/15 at 4:54 am
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:38 pm to TxTiger82
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Indeed. And I also have a PhD. You?
Everyone on TD has a PhD.
The sad part is that you were so ashamed of your public school education that you felt the need to make clear that you parlayed your public school education into a PhD.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:39 pm to ColdDuck
Believe in Butch
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:39 pm to Pecker
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Everyone on TD has a PhD.
Everyone but you, I guess. Sorry you're uneducated.
Posted on 8/16/15 at 9:40 pm to Pecker
The only real achievement is real achievement.
Private schooling, greek org memberships, and social clubbing has only one major advantage. Networking.
Many a moron have been accepted into grad schools, law firms, and corporate management because of who they knew.
That's the only selling point I can think of.
Private schooling, greek org memberships, and social clubbing has only one major advantage. Networking.
Many a moron have been accepted into grad schools, law firms, and corporate management because of who they knew.
That's the only selling point I can think of.
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