Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?
I often see people on DCUM trashing certain school systems or school clusters. Just wondering if income and neighborhood matter when it comes to how happy people are with the school and their child's education.

What is your household income? How much are you paying for housing? Where do you live? What do you and your partner do for a living?
What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
Are you happy with the school and education? If not, why not private school (or vice versa, why not public)? What are your school's pros and cons?
If you could change schools, where would you go and why?

$250,000

Rockville

Journalist and Attorney

My child is in private school because I thought my particular cluster (Wootton) was too competitive and hard core.

We are going to move upcounty to find a lower cost of living, a more middle class neighborhood. My son will go to public high school. I will look for diversity, especially economic. I do not like the neighborhoods that have so much money.

[Anonymous]

Trollin' down the river...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?
I often see people on DCUM trashing certain school systems or school clusters. Just wondering if income and neighborhood matter when it comes to how happy people are with the school and their child's education.

What is your household income? How much are you paying for housing? Where do you live? What do you and your partner do for a living?
What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
Are you happy with the school and education? If not, why not private school (or vice versa, why not public)? What are your school's pros and cons?
If you could change schools, where would you go and why?

TBH, I am not going to answer 20 questions. LOL. I think that human nature causes people to defend their own choices. A lot of people paid a premium to be in certain clusters based on the "ratings" of those schools. So of course, those people are going to believe that those schools offer something that you cannot get in other schools in the county. We have an HHI that would have allowed us to live in one of the coveted clusters. We actually chose to buy a bigger house in the cluster we were in. I defend that choice by saying, in retrospect, my kids were able to get into and attend the same colleges that the other kids did - and its true. So I would say that I did not need to spend the extra money to move because my kids got the same opportunities at the end of the day. Once again, defense of choice. That is what it is all about.

x10000

Blows my mind that the same public schools are mentioned ad nauseum - people need to defend their choices, no matter how pricey. A kid in a "lesser" school district has better chances at better colleges, but not everyone realizes this simple fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?
I often see people on DCUM trashing certain school systems or school clusters. Just wondering if income and neighborhood matter when it comes to how happy people are with the school and their child's education.

What is your household income? How much are you paying for housing? Where do you live? What do you and your partner do for a living?
What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
Are you happy with the school and education? If not, why not private school (or vice versa, why not public)? What are your school's pros and cons?
If you could change schools, where would you go and why?

$250,000

Rockville

Journalist and Attorney

My child is in private school because I thought my particular cluster (Wootton) was too competitive and hard core.

We are going to move upcounty to find a lower cost of living, a more middle class neighborhood. My son will go to public high school. I will look for diversity, especially economic. I do not like the neighborhoods that have so much money.

+1

Wise choice, for your children, especially.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trollin' down the river...

Not a troll. Just seems that the richer people are, the more they complain about the quality of the education. Was curious if it were true and at what SES that happens.

And this is DCUM. Since when does anyone here care about being polite.

[Anonymous]

Q. Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?

A. I feel like, as with most people and things, that some schools are better and some are worse and my kid has to learn to make the best of things and figure things out for herself.
Sure it'd be great to have so much wealth that we could all blissfully do whatever we want and buy our way into private school and ivy colleges and then top jobs or fund a life in the arts. But, that's not life.

Work hard, stay out of trouble, get good grades, and do the right thing. No one will do that for you nor give that to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trollin' down the river...

Not a troll. Just seems that the richer people are, the more they complain about the quality of the education. Was curious if it were true and at what SES that happens.

And this is DCUM. Since when does anyone here care about being polite.

Op, do you know the difference between wealth and income? Because truly wealthy people don't need ordinary income. Or public schools. Dual income, highly educated white collar couples who pay full freight taxes, mortgages, student loans and manage to save some are not evil. And it's not evil to have an opinion on the quality of anything. bFD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?

No. Normal people don't use phrases like, "your socioeconomic status," much less give a shit about letting it "inform how we feel."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?

No. Normal people don't use phrases like, "your socioeconomic status," much less give a shit about letting it "inform how we feel."

Depends on your education, I guess. Or lack thereof.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trollin' down the river...

Not a troll. Just seems that the richer people are, the more they complain about the quality of the education. Was curious if it were true and at what SES that happens.

And this is DCUM. Since when does anyone here care about being polite.

Op, do you know the difference between wealth and income? Because truly wealthy people don't need ordinary income. Or public schools. Dual income, highly educated white collar couples who pay full freight taxes, mortgages, student loans and manage to save some are not evil. And it's not evil to have an opinion on the quality of anything. bFD.

I wonder whether affluent people in real life also deny that they are affluent, or whether this is something that only happens on DCUM. It happens on DCUM quite frequently.

Wealth vs. income PP, where did anybody say anything about affluent people being evil?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is your household income?
$220k

How much are you paying for housing?
$500k house

Where do you live?
Kensington

What do you and your partner do for a living?
Journalist & unemployed

What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
Einstein cluster

Are you happy with the school and education?
Yes

If not, why not private school (or vice versa, why not public)?
N/a, happy with public

What are your school's pros and cons?
DCC consortium choice, great arts programs (music and performing arts), diversity, great teachers!

Love that kids can choose to enroll in challenging courses (IB, AP). In other places we have lived, enrollment in such courses required teacher recommendation.

If you could change schools, where would you go and why?
I wouldn't necessarily change schools, but now that my kids are teenagers they are trapped out here in the unwalkable suburbs. The whole family would prefer to live closer in to DC and near Metro.

I know this is off-topic , but I'm surprised a journalist's pulling in so much. 220K is a good salary, good for you!

DP here - That was my same thought when I read this!! What news organization pays that well? Nice gig PP!

[Anonymous]

I think it does, sometimes. I think education is important to families regardless of SE status, even though there are people that would claim otherwise. But I also think the higher your SE status, the pickier you can afford to be. My kids are not in school yet, but our HHI is about 150 and we live in the MD burbs. Our cluster is not one of the highly rated ones at all. We're going to give it a shot and see how it goes. We'll be involved parents because we have the time and resources to be. We've thought about jumping ship and moving to a better cluster, but I think there's something to be said for toughing it out and I hate to give up our super-affordable house.

I work in DC in education, and I see first hand how SES informs feelings about schools/education: KIPP is extremely popular among lower income/impoverished families. I would never send my child to a KIPP-style school. (I know, I know. And yes, I have personal experience upon which I'm basing my opinion. You're free to have a different opinion.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is your household income?
$220k

How much are you paying for housing?
$500k house

Where do you live?
Kensington

What do you and your partner do for a living?
Journalist & unemployed

What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
Einstein cluster

Are you happy with the school and education?
Yes

If not, why not private school (or vice versa, why not public)?
N/a, happy with public

What are your school's pros and cons?
DCC consortium choice, great arts programs (music and performing arts), diversity, great teachers!

Love that kids can choose to enroll in challenging courses (IB, AP). In other places we have lived, enrollment in such courses required teacher recommendation.

If you could change schools, where would you go and why?
I wouldn't necessarily change schools, but now that my kids are teenagers they are trapped out here in the unwalkable suburbs. The whole family would prefer to live closer in to DC and near Metro.

I know this is off-topic , but I'm surprised a journalist's pulling in so much. 220K is a good salary, good for you!

DP here - That was my same thought when I read this!! What news organization pays that well? Nice gig PP!

Spouse has 30+ years in journalism and also supervises reporters. Also made some very advantageous job changes at the right times, and got lucky.

[Anonymous]

Your simple fact is pretty much wrong.

Think of it this way. The goal of getting admitted to a "better" college is to graduate from that college.

By attending a "lesser" enough HS to increase your DC's chances of admission to a "better" college, you hurt your DC's chances of graduating from the more difficult college.

"A kid in a "lesser" school district has better chances at better colleges, but not everyone realizes this simple fact."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your simple fact is pretty much wrong.

Think of it this way. The goal of getting admitted to a "better" college is to graduate from that college.

By attending a "lesser" enough HS to increase your DC's chances of admission to a "better" college, you hurt your DC's chances of graduating from the more difficult college.

"A kid in a "lesser" school district has better chances at better colleges, but not everyone realizes this simple fact."

You can't graduate from a "better" college if you don't get admitted.