People who ruin neighborhoods (like tkpk) by putting their kids in private school

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Anonymous wrote:Who is “we”? I’ll send my kid to whatever school I want, thank you very much. BTW there are also people who homeschool & send their kids to far-flung magnets. It’s really none of your business. I am free to live wherever I want, too. I am not going to sacrifice my child’s education on the altar of diversity.

Not to mention, my kid wouldn’t be allowed to discuss where we went on spring break, our other house or their ECs, or else your child would feel bad & complain of “bragging.”

OP, you don’t really want this person’s kid in school with yours, do you?

Good point, but she is still taking one of the very few houses available and i wished i could have a less wealthy neighbor instead who would send her kids to public school. This is absolutely not neutral when more and more newcomers dont care about public schools and move into the available SFHs.

And I have plenty of cash myself. Travel extensively and could afford private school. I have zero envy. I just wish Takoma Park stayed the socially minded city it has been for so long. And public school is a KEY part of this project.

Well, clean up your schools. I realize it's a chicken and egg problem, but sorry: I'm not sacrificing my kids' education on the altar of public schools, just so I can save a few bucks and prove to people like you that I support public education. Which I do, when it's done correctly, and lately, that is not the case.

But then WHY do you choose to move to a neighborhood with good public schools like TKPK? and pay extra taxes? I dont get it.

Last time I checked this was still a free country.
Who do you think you are to police other people’s choices?

There is a difference between what you can legally do and what you can choose to do, based on your moral principles. Noone should be forced to be a vegetarian or a vegan, we could still wish others had the moral compass to be one for the sake of the planet.

Everyone has their own principles. Again, what makes you think you are some great authority?

OP here, i dont. I honestly thought more people shared my frustration. I realize now that it is not the case at all. Very few people on this thread ended up agreeing with me (i think i counted 4). That vent was an interesting lesson for me

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Anonymous wrote:Who is “we”? I’ll send my kid to whatever school I want, thank you very much. BTW there are also people who homeschool & send their kids to far-flung magnets. It’s really none of your business. I am free to live wherever I want, too. I am not going to sacrifice my child’s education on the altar of diversity.

Not to mention, my kid wouldn’t be allowed to discuss where we went on spring break, our other house or their ECs, or else your child would feel bad & complain of “bragging.”

OP, you don’t really want this person’s kid in school with yours, do you?

Good point, but she is still taking one of the very few houses available and i wished i could have a less wealthy neighbor instead who would send her kids to public school. This is absolutely not neutral when more and more newcomers dont care about public schools and move into the available SFHs.

And I have plenty of cash myself. Travel extensively and could afford private school. I have zero envy. I just wish Takoma Park stayed the socially minded city it has been for so long. And public school is a KEY part of this project.

Well, clean up your schools. I realize it's a chicken and egg problem, but sorry: I'm not sacrificing my kids' education on the altar of public schools, just so I can save a few bucks and prove to people like you that I support public education. Which I do, when it's done correctly, and lately, that is not the case.

But then WHY do you choose to move to a neighborhood with good public schools like TKPK? and pay extra taxes? I dont get it.

Last time I checked this was still a free country.
Who do you think you are to police other people’s choices?

There is a difference between what you can legally do and what you can choose to do, based on your moral principles. Noone should be forced to be a vegetarian or a vegan, we could still wish others had the moral compass to be one for the sake of the planet.

Everyone has their own principles. Again, what makes you think you are some great authority?

OP here, i dont. I honestly thought more people shared my frustration. I realize now that it is not the case at all. Very few people on this thread ended up agreeing with me (i think i counted 4). That vent was an interesting lesson for me

My children are not science experiments. We came to this country and worked our a$$es off to be able to give them the best possible opportunities, not to make social statements.

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What about people who own a house but don’t have kids? So selfish of them not to produce offspring and send them into the public school system. Those people are the worst!

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Why do people like OP only apply that attitude toward k-12, private schools? What about private colleges & graduate schools? What about country clubs? Private pool clubs? Private…anything but k-12 school?

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Anonymous wrote:What about people who own a house but don’t have kids? So selfish of them not to produce offspring and send them into the public school system. Those people are the worst!

No they are great, they pay property taxes for schools

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Anonymous wrote:Those whole thread is hilarious. People need to mind their own business.

This thread is amazing!

I always tell people that the one thing I hate about DC is that people here seem to feel like they have the right to tell you how to live your life. I've never seen so many busybodies in one place. It felt like it subsided in the past few years, maybe because of covid, or because I saw lots of people's true colors, lots of entitled a-holes and I generally find most people to just be selfish.

But this takes the cake.

You literally want to demand that people who come to your neighborhood also send their kids to the public schools, despite the fact that it may or may not be right for their child and family. Girl. Please.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is “we”? I’ll send my kid to whatever school I want, thank you very much. BTW there are also people who homeschool & send their kids to far-flung magnets. It’s really none of your business. I am free to live wherever I want, too. I am not going to sacrifice my child’s education on the altar of diversity.

Not to mention, my kid wouldn’t be allowed to discuss where we went on spring break, our other house or their ECs, or else your child would feel bad & complain of “bragging.”

OP, you don’t really want this person’s kid in school with yours, do you?

Good point, but she is still taking one of the very few houses available and i wished i could have a less wealthy neighbor instead who would send her kids to public school. This is absolutely not neutral when more and more newcomers dont care about public schools and move into the available SFHs.

And I have plenty of cash myself. Travel extensively and could afford private school. I have zero envy. I just wish Takoma Park stayed the socially minded city it has been for so long. And public school is a KEY part of this project.

Well, clean up your schools. I realize it's a chicken and egg problem, but sorry: I'm not sacrificing my kids' education on the altar of public schools, just so I can save a few bucks and prove to people like you that I support public education. Which I do, when it's done correctly, and lately, that is not the case.

But then WHY do you choose to move to a neighborhood with good public schools like TKPK? and pay extra taxes? I dont get it.

Last time I checked this was still a free country.
Who do you think you are to police other people’s choices?

There is a difference between what you can legally do and what you can choose to do, based on your moral principles. Noone should be forced to be a vegetarian or a vegan, we could still wish others had the moral compass to be one for the sake of the planet.

Everyone has their own principles. Again, what makes you think you are some great authority?

OP here, i dont. I honestly thought more people shared my frustration. I realize now that it is not the case at all. Very few people on this thread ended up agreeing with me (i think i counted 4). That vent was an interesting lesson for me

Don’t conclude that DCUM somehow represents reality.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people like OP only apply that attitude toward k-12, private schools? What about private colleges & graduate schools? What about country clubs? Private pool clubs? Private…anything but k-12 school?

OP here, to be honest i apply that principle to all of it.. wanna look at the history of private pools in the area?

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I read an article that on LAUSD that said that after years of overcrowding, it’s now underenrolled. One of the reasons for this is because there were significant numbers of immigrants to LA in the 80s - 2000s. Now, those immigrant kids are basically all grown up, in a significantly better position economically than they were when they arrived, and either are sending their kids to better districts than LAUSD or are childless.

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Anonymous wrote:What about people who own a house but don’t have kids? So selfish of them not to produce offspring and send them into the public school system. Those people are the worst!

No they are great, they pay property taxes for schools

So do families with kids in private

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OP I get it. I moved to NWDC from the west coast and bought a house close to highly rated public schools. I was surprised and disappointed to find that half of my neighbors send their kids to privates. I sent my kid to public until COVID. It was closed for so long that l transferred him to a private. Still hoping to go back to public but they really really F’d up during COVID so I’m gun shy now.

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Anonymous wrote:This is also happening in our close in Fairfax County neighborhood. Wealthy millennials have discovered our proximity to the city and are driving up housing prices but sending their kids to private school (our public schools are average but diverse and god forbid some of these couples send their kids to a diverse public school - the same people getting mommy & daddy's help buying the million dollar house are also getting mommy & daddy's help with private school tuition). I would LOVE to stay in our close in neighborhood and buy a larger house, but we can't afford anything and have outgrown our townhome, so we're likely moving to no man's land.

Jealousy is a disease.

I'm certainly not jealous of how your live will change when mommy & daddy aren't able to do anything for you in 15-20 years. Millennials are in for a world of hurt - you may be inheriting a ton of money, but you're going to be woefully unprepared to live life without your parents' guidance. good luck.

You should be glad those millennials are putting their kids in private—you wouldn’t respond well to what they’d demand in public school, and they aren’t crowding a public school.

What would they demand in public school? Wouldn't they be making demands that improved the school for everyone? I don't understand this argument.

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It is not your business how other people raise their kids! Just laughing at all of this lol.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not your business how other people raise their kids! Just laughing at all of this lol.

OP here. That is because I see this also as a moral, societal choice not only as an individual private choice. I believe we have duties towards the rest of the society and the world regarding the lifestyle choices we make, and that includes how we raise our children. And i can see i am in the absolute minority.

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Anonymous wrote:What about people who own a house but don’t have kids? So selfish of them not to produce offspring and send them into the public school system. Those people are the worst!

No they are great, they pay property taxes for schools

So do families with kids in private

That’s what they were saying!