re: Own expensive cars, large home - kid(s) in public school

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So you think that telling me about your PhD is an adequate way to make that argument? Do you think that is quality reasoning on your part?

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I thought the adequate way was giving you the stats (math, science scores, scholarship levels, etc) of my kids public school, combined with my observations and personal experience. You ignored it all. Do you think that is quality reasoning on your part?

If you think that your telling me you have a PhD is a way to prove that public school education > private, then that is a fairly serious indictment of your public school education. This is me just being honest here. I'd rather not even get into what that says about your PhD.

But since you never actually intended to discuss the topic at hand and only sought to derail my thread, well done. You have a great night.

Alter ! great troll !

Not an alter. Just don't post much. Lurked for a while then finally signed up.

The good private schools in Nashville cost $20k + per year. I live in the best public school district in the state. I am not spending 60k + per year to,send my kids to private school to get a high school diploma. Daycare in Nashville is 1k per month minimum per kid and is more expensive than the Catholic League schools in NOLA.

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TT82

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You're jealous because I have someone there when I need them.

Ravenwood > Franklin

The median price of a house in Brentwood is like 700k. Most kids in the neighborhood go to the public schools.

Here's a few from mine. I'd put it against most private schools in the country (granted, I was a frick up and took advantage of none of this):

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Homestead's award-winning student newspaper, The Epitaph, won eight Gold Crowns from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA). During that same period, it received eight Pacemaker Awards from the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA). As late as 1994, those were the most national awards ever given to a high school paper.

The paper also received one of its highest honors, The Press Freedom Award from the Student Press Law Center, in 1988 for its successful defense of a story about a junior boy who was HIV positive, one of the first such stories in any high school newspaper. The story had been initially censored by the principal but was allowed to run when the newspaper invoked California Education Code section [48907] California Education Code 48907, a California law that protected students' rights to free expression. The story was reported nationally in the wake of a Supreme Court's decision in Hazelwood School District et al. v. Kuhlmeier et al., 484 U.S. 260 (1988) This case gave school officials greater latitude in determining the content of a school's official student publications. The California law made the ruling moot in the state.

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Homestead has a robotics team that competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition. The team, which is FRC team number 670, was created by students in 2001. Alumnus Steve Wozniak has served as a key supporter of the team over the years. The team has a website detailing its history, mission, news, and ongoing activities.

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Homestead High School is home to a chapter of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), an organization dedicated to preparing students for success in business and careers. The chapter has enjoyed great success, having won an unofficial sweepstakes tally at California FBLA's Bay Section level 18 consecutive years (1998-2015), and the official Sweepstakes Award at the California FBLA State Leadership Conference for the past 17 consecutive years, (1999-2015). Homestead FBLA has also been the top chapter competitively in the entire nation for 15 of the past 16 years and for the last 9 years consecutively

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The mathematics team has regularly qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). Over the past five years, the team has placed among the top 10 schools in the Mu Alpha Theta National Log 1 Contest Mathematics Contest, taking fifth place nationally in 2009-10, third place in 2008-09, ninth place in 2007-08, and fourth place in 2006 and 2007.

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Homestead's yearbook, Pegasus, has been its most award-winning publication of recent years, capturing two Pacemakers from the National Scholastic Press Association in 2002 and 2005.[citation needed] The Pacemaker is awarded to the 20 best yearbooks in the country, often out of more than a thousand contenders. The yearbook was also an NSPA Pacemaker Finalist in 2000 and 2001. In 2006, the CSPA awarded the Pegasus a Silver Crown.

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Homestead High has a direct connection to the development of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.). Co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak both graduated from Homestead, as did the early Apple employee who introduced them, Bill Fernandez. Chrisann Brennan, Jobs' first girlfriend (also an early employee of Apple) and the mother of his first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, also graduated from Homestead.

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