Private schools should have boundaries just as public.

[Anonymous]

Every private school kid is one less kid in your kids school. I pay 21K in property tax which go to the local public school that we don’t use. That sounds like a big win to the OP. If there were no private schools, imagine the overcrowding in your local public school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are bunches of people living in the neighborhoods near good public schools who self-bus their own kids all across the county, while taking up all the good home space from other people who could truly benefit from living in the proximity.
It is kind of like taking away the resources they don't need.

Honey, you can’t afford my house.
-down the street from a great public school, and send my kids to private.

You have no class. (and, yeah, I could afford your house).

[Anonymous]

I think OP doesn't really know what "private" means. If people want to pay top dollar for excellent school districts and strangely not send their kids, that's on them.

[Anonymous]

Great idea, OP. Please organize whatever action that is required to make this happen!

[Anonymous]

OP they DO have boundaries, just not geographical ones. They have financial boundaries and some of them (not all) have academic and behavioral boundaries. They will not let the hick who can't stop farting with straight C grades into the school.

Happy now? I thought so.

[Anonymous]

The population size of these schools bake in me using a private. If you ban me from living in my desirable public district you just create a population problem.

[Anonymous]

Wait, are we talking about the United States here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Because why not?
2. To free up homes that they don't need in the proximity to a public schools so those who need them could buy them
and live them.

YES!

How would these homes be freed up exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Because why not?
2. To free up homes that they don't need in the proximity to a public schools so those who need them could buy them
and live them.

YES!

Uh, no. It’s unconstitutional, impractical, and unwarranted.

Also, you are probably a nice and passionate person, but your post makes you look like an idiot. Do a little more research and reasoning the next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP they DO have boundaries, just not geographical ones. They have financial boundaries and some of them (not all) have academic and behavioral boundaries. They will not let the hick who can't stop farting with straight C grades into the school.

Happy now? I thought so.

They also have de facto geographic boundaries. There's a fantastic private school in Lawrenceville, NJ. I don't send my kids there because . . . it's too far. Geographic boundary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who, when and why decided that public schools will have boundaries and private will not?
They share almost all other rules so why not this one? All we need is to vote? Right?
I am pretty sure more people would like to see them being "boundarized" like everyone else.
What - Democracy!!!!! When? - Now!

Op - you say all we need is to vote. What woudl we vote on? What does that bill look like?

[Anonymous]

In suburban Philadelphia, all the school districts provide busing for the private school kids as well, as long as they are within 10 miles. So it gets private school families off the roads, which helps with traffic and pollution, and actually accomplishes what OP wants, because almost no one considers privates that aren't close enough for the bus.
I know it's so far out of the culture around here that it would never be considered, but I'd love to see private school busing. (Mom of one in public and one in private)

[Anonymous]

The School at Columbia University, a private PK-8 lab school in NYC, has boundaries. Columbia-affiliated families have to live in NYC and other families within a certain area based on public school boundaries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are bunches of people living in the neighborhoods near good public schools who self-bus their own kids all across the county, while taking up all the good home space from other people who could truly benefit from living in the proximity.
It is kind of like taking away the resources they don't need.

Honey, you can’t afford my house.
-down the street from a great public school, and send my kids to private.

You have no class. (and, yeah, I could afford your house).

Same here. As could, I venture, a lot of people on here.
- Rich person who went private, sends my kids public, and could definitely afford PP's house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In suburban Philadelphia, all the school districts provide busing for the private school kids as well, as long as they are within 10 miles. So it gets private school families off the roads, which helps with traffic and pollution, and actually accomplishes what OP wants, because almost no one considers privates that aren't close enough for the bus.
I know it's so far out of the culture around here that it would never be considered, but I'd love to see private school busing. (Mom of one in public and one in private)

My kid takes public transit to private school.