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$88000/year for kids' schooling?!?! Couldn't enroll them in public school?

by msie 9y ago

jvagner 9y ago
In places where housing was affordable, especially ten years ago, no... you wouldn't necessarily have wanted to enroll your kids in the public school where you lived. I was in SF when my child was young, but as soon as we started digging into the school enrollment processes, I moved to Lafayette and enrolled him there. Lafayette was more expensive than Union City, but a better place to live and school, but perhaps not a place where a house could be as affordable. That said, none of it would compare with a 32 acre farm near Vancouver, IMHO...
defen 9y ago
You don't know what school your kid is going to end up in, because of the lottery system. You might have your kindergartner going to school across the city.
- taborj 9y ago
  This is foreign to me, can you explain it a bit more? Where I live, we have school districts, and inside those districts are boundaries for various schools. You know well before you even buy/rent your home what school boundary that home belongs to.
  - lev99 9y ago
    Different school districts weight the location of a child's home differently when choosing which school the child should go to. In most districts location is the highest factor. In other places it's a moderate or low factor.
  - azinman2 9y ago
    Sf has a lottery system to avoid all the rich kids at one school, and all the poor kids at another. It’s well motivated but totally impractical from get-kids-to-school-before-work perspective.
  - AndyNemmity 9y ago
    When I grew up, I was bussed an hour a way when I had a far nicer school in walking distance. And then a far worse school a 5 minute drive. Logic and school districts don't usually have anything to do with one another.
refurb 9y ago
Calling himself "lower middle class" is a joke. How many middle class send their kids to a private school?
- Jtsummers 9y ago
  A decent number. But most middle class folks (or those outside upper middle class at least) don't send multiple kids to $44,000/student/year schools, let alone one kid.
- lev99 9y ago
  In some cities sending children to private school is a very middle class thing to do. It depends on the local public school system.
cloudwizard 9y ago
Some people consider their children their first priority. Why the US education system is failing above average children is a different argument. I send both my kids to private school and consider it a necessity.

$88000/year for kids' schooling?!?! Couldn't enroll them in public school?

by msie 9y ago

$88000/year for kids' schooling?!?! Couldn't enroll them in public school?

In places where housing was affordable, especially ten years ago, no... you wouldn't necessarily have wanted to enroll your kids in the public school where you lived. I was in SF when my child was young, but as soon as we started digging into the school enrollment processes, I moved to Lafayette and enrolled him there. Lafayette was more expensive than Union City, but a better place to live and school, but perhaps not a place where a house could be as affordable. That said, none of it would compare with a 32 acre farm near Vancouver, IMHO...

defen 9y ago

You don't know what school your kid is going to end up in, because of the lottery system. You might have your kindergartner going to school across the city.

taborj 9y ago
This is foreign to me, can you explain it a bit more? Where I live, we have school districts, and inside those districts are boundaries for various schools. You know well before you even buy/rent your home what school boundary that home belongs to.
- lev99 9y ago
  Different school districts weight the location of a child's home differently when choosing which school the child should go to. In most districts location is the highest factor. In other places it's a moderate or low factor.
- azinman2 9y ago
  Sf has a lottery system to avoid all the rich kids at one school, and all the poor kids at another. It’s well motivated but totally impractical from get-kids-to-school-before-work perspective.
- AndyNemmity 9y ago
  When I grew up, I was bussed an hour a way when I had a far nicer school in walking distance. And then a far worse school a 5 minute drive. Logic and school districts don't usually have anything to do with one another.

refurb 9y ago

Calling himself "lower middle class" is a joke. How many middle class send their kids to a private school?

Jtsummers 9y ago
A decent number. But most middle class folks (or those outside upper middle class at least) don't send multiple kids to $44,000/student/year schools, let alone one kid.
lev99 9y ago
In some cities sending children to private school is a very middle class thing to do. It depends on the local public school system.

cloudwizard 9y ago

Some people consider their children their first priority. Why the US education system is failing above average children is a different argument. I send both my kids to private school and consider it a necessity.