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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A few dozen or even a couple hundred additional wealthy and brighter kids in a school doesn’t magically make it a great school. It merely MASKS its foundational issues, so people like OP can play pretend, the teachers union can secure salary hikes, and the transient admins can job hop to cushier jobs. It’s all one big illusion and scam. Smart and affluent parents realize life is short and you only get one role of the dice with your kids.

Sorry you’re too poor to live in a really good school district, because I can tell for a fact that they exist. Unfortunately, not many around here. Try Scarsdale, Bronxville, Darien or Treddyfrin-Easttown (Pa) for starters.

Ohhhhh so you mean a de facto private “public” school where the town is a gated enclave with 95% rich white/Asian families, no apartments (let alone low income subsidized apartments), minimum $1,000,000 to buy a SFM, and absolutely no choice students from a neighboring town? It’s hilarious how you public advocates tease out your racial and class biases.

Point is that not all rich people send their kids to private.

Depends what you consider rich. Essentially all ultra wealthy people do.

Correct, if it’s a crappy private when they know their kids couldn’t compete at the local public.

You people are absurd.

It’s true. You send your kid to Bullis, Flint Hill, Langley school, Bishop Ireton, The Langley School etc because they lack the smarts, motivation or self-discipline to excel in a public school. Just own your decision.

My kids don’t even go to private school, but you sound pitiful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP doesn’t understand that a community functions best when there is a diversity of people with a diversity of beliefs and life choices, including where kids go to school.

But that diversity only exists in the community not the schools and each get siloed down the line as kids age and they end up spending less time at home and more time out and about with friends from school.

I also laugh because people know that it involved PTA is one of the predictors a functioning public School and the kids served by that school end up doing better and yet all of the wealthy people here are like well you can have my tax money as if that is a blessing.

There is also this turmoil happening in our communities/country between the haves and the have nots and middle class and upper middle class are constantly struggling to make sure that they are on the side of the haves when everything falls apart.

Mostly because we've decimated the structural support of the middle class. Only the wealthy and the poor are subsidized in our tax system and that's where the money goes. It's sucked up by both opposing forces and leaves the middle just hanging on for dear life.

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Anonymous wrote:A few dozen or even a couple hundred additional wealthy and brighter kids in a school doesn’t magically make it a great school. It merely MASKS its foundational issues, so people like OP can play pretend, the teachers union can secure salary hikes, and the transient admins can job hop to cushier jobs. It’s all one big illusion and scam. Smart and affluent parents realize life is short and you only get one role of the dice with your kids.

Sorry you’re too poor to live in a really good school district, because I can tell for a fact that they exist. Unfortunately, not many around here. Try Scarsdale, Bronxville, Darien or Treddyfrin-Easttown (Pa) for starters.

Ohhhhh so you mean a de facto private “public” school where the town is a gated enclave with 95% rich white/Asian families, no apartments (let alone low income subsidized apartments), minimum $1,000,000 to buy a SFM, and absolutely no choice students from a neighboring town? It’s hilarious how you public advocates tease out your racial and class biases.

Point is that not all rich people send their kids to private.

Depends what you consider rich. Essentially all ultra wealthy people do.

Correct, if it’s a crappy private when they know their kids couldn’t compete at the local public.

You people are absurd.

It’s true. You send your kid to Bullis, Flint Hill, Langley school, Bishop Ireton, The Langley School etc because they lack the smarts, motivation or self-discipline to excel in a public school. Just own your decision.

You're an insufferable douche.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A few dozen or even a couple hundred additional wealthy and brighter kids in a school doesn’t magically make it a great school. It merely MASKS its foundational issues, so people like OP can play pretend, the teachers union can secure salary hikes, and the transient admins can job hop to cushier jobs. It’s all one big illusion and scam. Smart and affluent parents realize life is short and you only get one role of the dice with your kids.

Sorry you’re too poor to live in a really good school district, because I can tell for a fact that they exist. Unfortunately, not many around here. Try Scarsdale, Bronxville, Darien or Treddyfrin-Easttown (Pa) for starters.

Ohhhhh so you mean a de facto private “public” school where the town is a gated enclave with 95% rich white/Asian families, no apartments (let alone low income subsidized apartments), minimum $1,000,000 to buy a SFM, and absolutely no choice students from a neighboring town? It’s hilarious how you public advocates tease out your racial and class biases.

Point is that not all rich people send their kids to private.

Depends what you consider rich. Essentially all ultra wealthy people do.

Correct, if it’s a crappy private when they know their kids couldn’t compete at the local public.

You people are absurd.

It’s true. You send your kid to Bullis, Flint Hill, Langley school, Bishop Ireton, The Langley School etc because they lack the smarts, motivation or self-discipline to excel in a public school. Just own your decision.

You sure do wear your insecurities.

Sure Jan, your kid could totally finish the IB Diploma, they just needed a “small environment” instead.

Your parenting decisions are none of my business. Why do you care so much about how others parent?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A few dozen or even a couple hundred additional wealthy and brighter kids in a school doesn’t magically make it a great school. It merely MASKS its foundational issues, so people like OP can play pretend, the teachers union can secure salary hikes, and the transient admins can job hop to cushier jobs. It’s all one big illusion and scam. Smart and affluent parents realize life is short and you only get one role of the dice with your kids.

Sorry you’re too poor to live in a really good school district, because I can tell for a fact that they exist. Unfortunately, not many around here. Try Scarsdale, Bronxville, Darien or Treddyfrin-Easttown (Pa) for starters.

Ohhhhh so you mean a de facto private “public” school where the town is a gated enclave with 95% rich white/Asian families, no apartments (let alone low income subsidized apartments), minimum $1,000,000 to buy a SFM, and absolutely no choice students from a neighboring town? It’s hilarious how you public advocates tease out your racial and class biases.

Point is that not all rich people send their kids to private.

Depends what you consider rich. Essentially all ultra wealthy people do.

Correct, if it’s a crappy private when they know their kids couldn’t compete at the local public.

You people are absurd.

It’s true. You send your kid to Bullis, Flint Hill, Langley school, Bishop Ireton, The Langley School etc because they lack the smarts, motivation or self-discipline to excel in a public school. Just own your decision.

You're an insufferable douche.

It’s just another poor prole. Probably childless and bitter and alone on a holiday weekend.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A few dozen or even a couple hundred additional wealthy and brighter kids in a school doesn’t magically make it a great school. It merely MASKS its foundational issues, so people like OP can play pretend, the teachers union can secure salary hikes, and the transient admins can job hop to cushier jobs. It’s all one big illusion and scam. Smart and affluent parents realize life is short and you only get one role of the dice with your kids.

Sorry you’re too poor to live in a really good school district, because I can tell for a fact that they exist. Unfortunately, not many around here. Try Scarsdale, Bronxville, Darien or Treddyfrin-Easttown (Pa) for starters.

Ohhhhh so you mean a de facto private “public” school where the town is a gated enclave with 95% rich white/Asian families, no apartments (let alone low income subsidized apartments), minimum $1,000,000 to buy a SFM, and absolutely no choice students from a neighboring town? It’s hilarious how you public advocates tease out your racial and class biases.

Point is that not all rich people send their kids to private.

Depends what you consider rich. Essentially all ultra wealthy people do.

Correct, if it’s a crappy private when they know their kids couldn’t compete at the local public.

You people are absurd.

It’s true. You send your kid to Bullis, Flint Hill, Langley school, Bishop Ireton, The Langley School etc because they lack the smarts, motivation or self-discipline to excel in a public school. Just own your decision.

Actually I sent my DC to private school (which I paid for in full, no freebies) with my hard earned money to avoid having them in schools with offspring from parents who think just like you do. Oh, and while doing that through my hard work, I also paid my taxes that helped to support your little one/s in public school. You're welcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will never send my kids to public school, and honestly I’m tired of having to fund the education of public school children.

Amoral. Anti-social. Sick AF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More of a vent, but i am uttterly frustrated by people with money who move into nice MC neighborhoods like tkpk or silver spring with relatively good schools to get bigger houses and then choose to put their precious kids in private schools.

We are trying to build a community and bring the schools up and these people create a bad trend of pulling a whole group of UMC kids out of the public schools because they cannot handle the diversity and challenges of public schools. All while claiming to be left leaning and to have a social compass. But that is pure white flight. It is depressing. And they dont even seem to see how political and impactful their choice is.

I really wish they stayed out of my city and went to live next to the private schools they send their kids to.

Why’d you spend so much on a house in a nice suburb when you could have bought in a more diverse and vibrant lower income town and sent your kids to a more diverse public school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A few dozen or even a couple hundred additional wealthy and brighter kids in a school doesn’t magically make it a great school. It merely MASKS its foundational issues, so people like OP can play pretend, the teachers union can secure salary hikes, and the transient admins can job hop to cushier jobs. It’s all one big illusion and scam. Smart and affluent parents realize life is short and you only get one role of the dice with your kids.

Sorry you’re too poor to live in a really good school district, because I can tell for a fact that they exist. Unfortunately, not many around here. Try Scarsdale, Bronxville, Darien or Treddyfrin-Easttown (Pa) for starters.

Ohhhhh so you mean a de facto private “public” school where the town is a gated enclave with 95% rich white/Asian families, no apartments (let alone low income subsidized apartments), minimum $1,000,000 to buy a SFM, and absolutely no choice students from a neighboring town? It’s hilarious how you public advocates tease out your racial and class biases.

Point is that not all rich people send their kids to private.

Depends what you consider rich. Essentially all ultra wealthy people do.

Correct, if it’s a crappy private when they know their kids couldn’t compete at the local public.

You people are absurd.

It’s true. You send your kid to Bullis, Flint Hill, Langley school, Bishop Ireton, The Langley School etc because they lack the smarts, motivation or self-discipline to excel in a public school. Just own your decision.

You sure do wear your insecurities.

Sure Jan, your kid could totally finish the IB Diploma, they just needed a “small environment” instead.

Listen dickwad, do you really deny that there is value to a small class? You never took a 10 person seminar in college or grad school? You seem to be compensating for something. Perhaps you have a chip on your shoulder from attending a series of middling schools throughout your life?

[Anonymous]

The dummies saying “I support your kid’s public school through taxes” don’t understand how per-pupil funding works. If a school is underenrolled, it gets rezoned or closed down. They let go of teachers, not let kids enjoy smaller class sizes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:More of a vent, but i am uttterly frustrated by people with money who move into nice MC neighborhoods like tkpk or silver spring with relatively good schools to get bigger houses and then choose to put their precious kids in private schools.

We are trying to build a community and bring the schools up and these people create a bad trend of pulling a whole group of UMC kids out of the public schools because they cannot handle the diversity and challenges of public schools. All while claiming to be left leaning and to have a social compass. But that is pure white flight. It is depressing. And they dont even seem to see how political and impactful their choice is.

I really wish they stayed out of my city and went to live next to the private schools they send their kids to.

Why’d you spend so much on a house in a nice suburb when you could have bought in a more diverse and vibrant lower income town and sent your kids to a more diverse public school?

+1 Why isn’t OP in Annandale? SE DC? PG County?

[Anonymous]

At a certain age you wise up and realize public schools are just a gigantic cash register racket. The voting blocs, the unions, the staff, the worthless admins, all the fat pensions, the multi-millionaire contractors, the real estate scams, and all of the other pigs in the trough. The fake grades, all the behavior the admins cover up. Nobody in them gives a damn about your children.

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Anonymous wrote:At a certain age you wise up and realize public schools are just a gigantic cash register racket. The voting blocs, the unions, the staff, the worthless admins, all the fat pensions, the multi-millionaire contractors, the real estate scams, and all of the other pigs in the trough. The fake grades, all the behavior the admins cover up. Nobody in them gives a damn about your children.

Again, you’re describing bad school districts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At a certain age you wise up and realize public schools are just a gigantic cash register racket. The voting blocs, the unions, the staff, the worthless admins, all the fat pensions, the multi-millionaire contractors, the real estate scams, and all of the other pigs in the trough. The fake grades, all the behavior the admins cover up. Nobody in them gives a damn about your children.

This isn’t Baltimore

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Anonymous wrote:Will never send my kids to public school, and honestly I’m tired of having to fund the education of public school children.

Amoral. Anti-social. Sick AF.

Why? Genuinely curious for people who pay way more than their fair share and feel exploited.