Does the school pyramid really make a difference in the long run?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not really. A student at one of the worst high schools in our county got accepted to Columbia.

It's more about the student than the schools.

+1

It also is more advantageous for a student to be applying to top colleges from "bad" schools - your chances of getting in are higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really. A student at one of the worst high schools in our county got accepted to Columbia.

It's more about the student than the schools.

+1

It also is more advantageous for a student to be applying to top colleges from "bad" schools - your chances of getting in are higher.

It’s not just about getting in. Read about overmatching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really. A student at one of the worst high schools in our county got accepted to Columbia.

It's more about the student than the schools.

+1

It also is more advantageous for a student to be applying to top colleges from "bad" schools - your chances of getting in are higher.

Your chances of getting good sat/Ap scores certainly aren’t higher. Nor will the bad school have as many outstanding extracurriculars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really. A student at one of the worst high schools in our county got accepted to Columbia.

It's more about the student than the schools.

+1

It also is more advantageous for a student to be applying to top colleges from "bad" schools - your chances of getting in are higher.

Your chances of getting good sat/Ap scores certainly aren’t higher. Nor will the bad school have as many outstanding extracurriculars.

And the chances of your kid falling in with a less motivated peer group are higher.

[Anonymous]

OP, no it doesn’t matter what school tour child will go to. I don’t understand parents’ obsession in the US with what school their children go to. Both me and my husband are from another country. My school was one of the worst schools in an OK school district, my husband is from a small town where basically all population was low income, including himself. Now we both have our dream jobs in DC area, both of us have colleagues from Ivies and top 50 colleges, and we still don’t understand what’s a big deal - it all comes down to their work ethics, skills, and personalities, regardless of what school they graduated from. The only logic that has served us well in our lives is just do your best in whatever school and work you got, study and work hard and hopefully it pays off.

OP, I think your best bet is just a find a house that you think would make your family happy to be in, and remember that the best extracurricular activity is being with a family who’s really present.

[Anonymous]

If you plan to send your kids to public schools, you buy in the best school pyramid you can afford, taking into account commute and housing needs.

That is how people operate because, on balance, it provides kids with the best education available under those circumstances and is the best investment.

People who want to share their personal stories are always welcome, but the subtext is actually that they made it despite having attended inferior lower schools, not because they did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you plan to send your kids to public schools, you buy in the best school pyramid you can afford, taking into account commute and housing needs.

That is how people operate because, on balance, it provides kids with the best education available under those circumstances and is the best investment.

People who want to share their personal stories are always welcome, but the subtext is actually that they made it despite having attended inferior lower schools, not because they did.

The subtext is that it didn’t matter - because it still doesn’t matter at their places of work.

[Anonymous]

As obsessed as this area is with Advanced Academic Placement, it seems to get very little mention in this thread. If OP’s kids are smart (and they probably are) they would likely be in AAP and AP/Honors classes through their career, regardless of the school. This easily solves any “problem” of an insufficiently motivated peer group.

Honestly, I’d be more concerned about affluenza in an area like NoVA than I would about the peers in a lower-GS school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still like this article:

Does it pay to obsess on where your kid goes to school?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/25/does-it-pay-to-obsess-on-where-your-kid-goes-to-college/%3foutputType=amp

Great article and I agree.

“ Whatever the rhetoric about a decline in public education, most schools are actually pretty good. How do we know? Just ask their clients. As polling data reveal, the vast majority of parents are very satisfied with the schools their children attend.”

Oh, OK, the measurement of school performance now is some poll where parents said they were satisfied.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you plan to send your kids to public schools, you buy in the best school pyramid you can afford, taking into account commute and housing needs.

That is how people operate because, on balance, it provides kids with the best education available under those circumstances and is the best investment.

People who want to share their personal stories are always welcome, but the subtext is actually that they made it despite having attended inferior lower schools, not because they did.

The subtext is that it didn’t matter - because it still doesn’t matter at their places of work.

They prove the opposite point when they emphasize that they are surrounded by people at work who attended better schools, not people who attended the schools they attended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still like this article:

Does it pay to obsess on where your kid goes to school?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/25/does-it-pay-to-obsess-on-where-your-kid-goes-to-college/%3foutputType=amp

Great article and I agree.

“ Whatever the rhetoric about a decline in public education, most schools are actually pretty good. How do we know? Just ask their clients. As polling data reveal, the vast majority of parents are very satisfied with the schools their children attend.”

Oh, OK, the measurement of school performance now is some poll where parents said they were satisfied.

Better than relying solely on test scores, which tell you little more than the socio-economic status of the students who attend..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you plan to send your kids to public schools, you buy in the best school pyramid you can afford, taking into account commute and housing needs.

That is how people operate because, on balance, it provides kids with the best education available under those circumstances and is the best investment.

People who want to share their personal stories are always welcome, but the subtext is actually that they made it despite having attended inferior lower schools, not because they did.

The subtext is that it didn’t matter - because it still doesn’t matter at their places of work.

They prove the opposite point when they emphasize that they are surrounded by people at work who attended better schools, not people who attended the schools they attended.

The original comment poster here. There are people from all kinds of schools and background. People from High rank colleges don’t stand out as a group, some of them stand out because of their skills, just like some people from colleges no one heard of. I mentioned top schools since it’s the context of the initial discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still like this article:

Does it pay to obsess on where your kid goes to school?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/25/does-it-pay-to-obsess-on-where-your-kid-goes-to-college/%3foutputType=amp

Great article and I agree.

“ Whatever the rhetoric about a decline in public education, most schools are actually pretty good. How do we know? Just ask their clients. As polling data reveal, the vast majority of parents are very satisfied with the schools their children attend.”

Oh, OK, the measurement of school performance now is some poll where parents said they were satisfied.

LOL, the article was written by a Post reporter who sent her kid to private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still like this article:

Does it pay to obsess on where your kid goes to school?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/25/does-it-pay-to-obsess-on-where-your-kid-goes-to-college/%3foutputType=amp

Great article and I agree.

“ Whatever the rhetoric about a decline in public education, most schools are actually pretty good. How do we know? Just ask their clients. As polling data reveal, the vast majority of parents are very satisfied with the schools their children attend.”

Oh, OK, the measurement of school performance now is some poll where parents said they were satisfied.

Better than relying solely on test scores, which tell you little more than the socio-economic status of the students who attend..

They also measure mastery of an academic subject, but that's largely irrelevant to people like you, apparently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still like this article:

Does it pay to obsess on where your kid goes to school?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/25/does-it-pay-to-obsess-on-where-your-kid-goes-to-college/%3foutputType=amp

Great article and I agree.

“ Whatever the rhetoric about a decline in public education, most schools are actually pretty good. How do we know? Just ask their clients. As polling data reveal, the vast majority of parents are very satisfied with the schools their children attend.”

Oh, OK, the measurement of school performance now is some poll where parents said they were satisfied.

Better than relying solely on test scores, which tell you little more than the socio-economic status of the students who attend..

They also measure mastery of an academic subject, but that's largely irrelevant to people like you, apparently.

Are you being deliberately obtuse? How exactly does this measure school quality if students of the same income level would have received the same score in a different school?