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re: Runnels (High) School is on the clock.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:14 pm to choupiquesushi
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:14 pm to choupiquesushi
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PBS tuition has gone up a pretty big chunk the last couple of years.
F Parkview
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Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:14 pm to Cycledude
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Just went their yesterday
Checks out.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:24 pm to Martini
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I know five friends kids that graduated from Runnels. One cardiologist, one mechanical engineer, one attorney, one sculpter and one writer. All very successful in their chosen fields and all five amazing musicians.
That place pumps out kids with a better than average jump on life... I graduated with 47 ppl, we have a lobbyist, pilot, couple of engineers, one guy does something fo NASA, dentist, doctor, pretty successful weed grower
, teachers, etc. Only 1 or 2 who failed at life
They really want the kids to understand who they are as a person and allow them to grow into who they want to be, not another private school drone being pumped out
Long hair? Cool
Ears pierced? Cool
Gay? Cool
Into some weird random art form? Awesome
It was a cool place to go, tbh
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:25 pm to Modern
Lol at adults comparing and caring about high school
This post was edited on 11/14/19 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:33 pm to BR Tiger
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We have kids at Runnels. To get some of this out of the way: yes, Runnels kids are different. Some would call them weird. They tend to be bright and have some sort of artistic leaning. But not all.
Runnels has a niche as a non-religious private school in BR. Traditionally tuition at Runnels and Parkview is in the same Range. Episcopal and Dunham are much higher. St Michaels is a hair lower. With this increase, HS tuition will still be below Dunham and Episcopal but not by much.
One key fact that isn’t really being discussed here is that along with increasing tuition, they are looking at undetermined cuts to programs. So AP classes may be going away. Extracurricular activities will likely be cut. But nobody knows what that will look like. So they are asking people to go to the bank, take out money or get a loan, and pay for next year up front as soon as possible without knowing what the school will look like next year.
Here’s the bottom line from most parents I’ve spoken with. We all knew the school leaders weren’t great business minds. But they hid how incompetent they truly were until now, when we are way past the point of no return. Even if they somehow manage to scrape together enough to keep the school open next year, there’s no way I can see it surviving past that. There is still no plan for financial responsibility other than “promise to give us more money. We’ll do better this time.”
Parkview, St Michaels, BRHS, and Lee are all about to have their pick of Runnels kids. That’s where most are looking at at this time
I have kids (not weird) at Runnels and this is the perfect summary. There is absolutely no long term plan for the school or plans to restructure things that are costing the school a ton of money.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:37 pm to winkchance
This post was edited on 11/14/19 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:38 pm to danilo
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Lol at adults comparing and caring about high school
Maybe a lot of adults with kids that actually go to school.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:38 pm to Modern
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from $10,360 a year currently to $14,800 for the 2020-21 school year.
Still cheaper than the other private schools, yes?
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:40 pm to Tigeralum2008
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Lee is doing very well for themselves.
It's not the same Lee High I went too.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:41 pm to Jim Rockford
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Still cheaper than the other private schools, yes?
Most are around 10k or less other than Dunham and Episcopal.
This post was edited on 11/14/19 at 4:42 pm
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:41 pm to Jim Rockford
This post was edited on 11/14/19 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:45 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
My mixed self would have preferred runnels over McKinley or brh
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:55 pm to BR Tiger
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He was also looking at staffing patterns and seeing that there were some improvements possible there as well.
Yes, he had plans to revise the policy that every teacher who teaches at Runnels gets free tuition for their kids. You have teachers there teaching 3 hours per day with 4 kids going to the school for free. If you extrapolate that to a full work week plus all the free tuition, Runnels is paying some of these teachers $60,000 or $70,000 to teach one class or watch kids in aftercare for 3 hours. I always wondered how that was sustainable. Now I know the answer. It's not. Giving teachers benefits is fine. But to allow that particular policy to continue while the school is bleeding in the red is gross mismanagement.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 4:59 pm to Jim Rockford
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Still cheaper than the other private schools, yes?
It's not just tuition. The bigger issue for me is that we were lied to as parents for many years. Confidence in the administration and the long term viability of the school has been shattered. There is no plan for the future. I can't invest my money in a school that I now know will be continuously on the brink of collapse.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 5:05 pm to Martini
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Maybe a lot of adults with kids that actually go to school.
LOL at complaining about which schools have “weirdos” and “sluts”
Posted on 11/14/19 at 5:15 pm to OweO
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So it was a school with a punch of white kids who felt bad about their "white privilege"?
When I was in school in the 90's it was where most kids that got kicked out of other private or public schools went because it was the cheapest private school that would take them other than going to Valley Park.
ETA: IDK if this has been discussed already, I'm not reading a 7 page thread about Runnels.
This post was edited on 11/14/19 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 11/14/19 at 5:36 pm to shawnlsu
Did the flood have anything to do with this? I remember my parents flooding off of S. Harrells Ferry and talks in the neighborhood were that Runnels would not reopen or it would be at least a year before they reopened.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 5:38 pm to Modern
$14k???? Pfft, rookie numbers.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 5:46 pm to NickyT
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Did the flood have anything to do with this? I remember my parents flooding off of S. Harrells Ferry and talks in the neighborhood were that Runnels would not reopen or it would be at least a year before they reopened.
This was in motion long before the flood. The school has admitted that, ironically, flood money from FEMA has been propping the school up for the last three years. Now that money is gone. I don't know the ethics behind using FEMA money to prop up a private school's budget, but that's none of my business.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 5:47 pm to High C
Saw them play in Sulphur.
They’re not bad
They’re not bad
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