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

[Anonymous]

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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.

This^^^

There’s just nothing to romanticize and I don’t get how anyone is gullible enough to be rah-rah about public schools. Public schools are big business. The people who control them only care about power and the money they can extract out of them. It’s so childlike to see them as anything more than cash registers. Your kid’s future or preparation for adulthood does not matter. It’s laughable people think anyone in a public school cares about your kid. They are just per pupil $. That’s it.

As for the PP who said she’d send her kids to Blair tomorrow. Not if her grandparents gave her tuition for Sidwell. It’s easy to say you LOVE public when it’s your only option. You’d put a private sticker on your CRV or Rav-4 tomorrow if you can afford it.

I think private schools charging $45,000/year for elementary school & then asking for donations are “big business.”

[Anonymous]

You can’t compare open-enrollment public school testing data to privates or charters, because public schools cannot choose their students.

[Anonymous]

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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.

This^^^

There’s just nothing to romanticize and I don’t get how anyone is gullible enough to be rah-rah about public schools. Public schools are big business. The people who control them only care about power and the money they can extract out of them. It’s so childlike to see them as anything more than cash registers. Your kid’s future or preparation for adulthood does not matter. It’s laughable people think anyone in a public school cares about your kid. They are just per pupil $. That’s it.

As for the PP who said she’d send her kids to Blair tomorrow. Not if her grandparents gave her tuition for Sidwell. It’s easy to say you LOVE public when it’s your only option. You’d put a private sticker on your CRV or Rav-4 tomorrow if you can afford it.

Do you think that Public schools are important? This all ties back to corruption in the US. Everyone trying to get one over.

It's also interesting to me that millions of successful people, if not more, have become successful and contributing members of society. Do you think we would be better off without public schools? I just don't get the hate. The corruption is at the top and yes it is a business because nothing in this country can be implemented without making a profit for someone somewhere. Same.with healthcare. Same with government. High level just move onto private sector. Congress make millions in insider. It's corruption. Not public schools that are the issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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^^^

There’s just nothing to romanticize and I don’t get how anyone is gullible enough to be rah-rah about public schools. Public schools are big business. The people who control them only care about power and the money they can extract out of them. It’s so childlike to see them as anything more than cash registers. Your kid’s future or preparation for adulthood does not matter. It’s laughable people think anyone in a public school cares about your kid. They are just per pupil $. That’s it.

As for the PP who said she’d send her kids to Blair tomorrow. Not if her grandparents gave her tuition for Sidwell. It’s easy to say you LOVE public when it’s your only option. You’d put a private sticker on your CRV or Rav-4 tomorrow if you can afford it.

I think private schools charging $45,000/year for elementary school & then asking for donations are “big business.”

Private schools have to work hard to justify the price. That just doesn’t happen in public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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^^^

There’s just nothing to romanticize and I don’t get how anyone is gullible enough to be rah-rah about public schools. Public schools are big business. The people who control them only care about power and the money they can extract out of them. It’s so childlike to see them as anything more than cash registers. Your kid’s future or preparation for adulthood does not matter. It’s laughable people think anyone in a public school cares about your kid. They are just per pupil $. That’s it.

As for the PP who said she’d send her kids to Blair tomorrow. Not if her grandparents gave her tuition for Sidwell. It’s easy to say you LOVE public when it’s your only option. You’d put a private sticker on your CRV or Rav-4 tomorrow if you can afford it.

I think private schools charging $45,000/year for elementary school & then asking for donations are “big business.”

Private schools have to work hard to justify the price. That just doesn’t happen in public.

So do you think there should be no public schools? Who deserves to go school & who doesn’t?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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^^^

There’s just nothing to romanticize and I don’t get how anyone is gullible enough to be rah-rah about public schools. Public schools are big business. The people who control them only care about power and the money they can extract out of them. It’s so childlike to see them as anything more than cash registers. Your kid’s future or preparation for adulthood does not matter. It’s laughable people think anyone in a public school cares about your kid. They are just per pupil $. That’s it.

As for the PP who said she’d send her kids to Blair tomorrow. Not if her grandparents gave her tuition for Sidwell. It’s easy to say you LOVE public when it’s your only option. You’d put a private sticker on your CRV or Rav-4 tomorrow if you can afford it.

I think private schools charging $45,000/year for elementary school & then asking for donations are “big business.”

Private schools have to work hard to justify the price. That just doesn’t happen in public.

So do you think there should be no public schools? Who deserves to go school & who doesn’t?

The general expectations are just way different between the two.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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^^^

There’s just nothing to romanticize and I don’t get how anyone is gullible enough to be rah-rah about public schools. Public schools are big business. The people who control them only care about power and the money they can extract out of them. It’s so childlike to see them as anything more than cash registers. Your kid’s future or preparation for adulthood does not matter. It’s laughable people think anyone in a public school cares about your kid. They are just per pupil $. That’s it.

As for the PP who said she’d send her kids to Blair tomorrow. Not if her grandparents gave her tuition for Sidwell. It’s easy to say you LOVE public when it’s your only option. You’d put a private sticker on your CRV or Rav-4 tomorrow if you can afford it.

I think private schools charging $45,000/year for elementary school & then asking for donations are “big business.”

Private schools have to work hard to justify the price. That just doesn’t happen in public.

So do you think there should be no public schools? Who deserves to go school & who doesn’t?

The general expectations are just way different between the two.

You didn’t answer the question. You also don’t seem to get that public schools can’t pick & choose their students like privates can.

[Anonymous]

Haven’t read 17 pages but people have always put their kids in private schools in TP and SS especially if their kids might not get into the magnets. Heck, this is why the magnets were built in these schools. It certainly wasn’t because the highest scoring kids lived there, quite the opposite. It’s been this way for over 20 years.

[Anonymous]

The silver lining of covid and the forced virtual school was that parents could hear for themselves how kids were being taught.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

There must be consequences for school closures.

[Anonymous]

Can I live in your neighborhood if I don’t have any kids? According to you, is that allowed?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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^^^

There’s just nothing to romanticize and I don’t get how anyone is gullible enough to be rah-rah about public schools. Public schools are big business. The people who control them only care about power and the money they can extract out of them. It’s so childlike to see them as anything more than cash registers. Your kid’s future or preparation for adulthood does not matter. It’s laughable people think anyone in a public school cares about your kid. They are just per pupil $. That’s it.

As for the PP who said she’d send her kids to Blair tomorrow. Not if her grandparents gave her tuition for Sidwell. It’s easy to say you LOVE public when it’s your only option. You’d put a private sticker on your CRV or Rav-4 tomorrow if you can afford it.

I think private schools charging $45,000/year for elementary school & then asking for donations are “big business.”

Private schools have to work hard to justify the price. That just doesn’t happen in public.

So do you think there should be no public schools? Who deserves to go school & who doesn’t?

The general expectations are just way different between the two.

You didn’t answer the question. You also don’t seem to get that public schools can’t pick & choose their students like privates can.

Yes that is the point and why I send my kids to private and why a private education is far superior. Don’t be mad my kids go to private school.

[Anonymous]

There is no discipline in schools and kids know it. I watched a big kid tackle a small girl right in front of the teacher and they did nothing. When asked they said they couldn't. So we moved to Frederick County because we can't afford private.

And btw, public schools can not handle anyone with disabilities so that is also why people chose private.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I sent my DS to a huge, low income public high school that has a small group of wealthier families from one little neighborhood. I had the same sentiments as OP. My DS is a senior and I think I was wrong. I think the lower income, non- English speakers would be better served if they were the entire school, not 90% of it, because then all the teachers and administrators could totally focus on, and specialize in, how to best serve this population. Having some high income, English speakers really does not seem to help anyone.

The problem is that the choice is 90% or 100%.

There are mountains of research showing that segregating schools by income is terrible for low-income students.

I’m not so sure about that research. The reality is that concentrating low-income students allows schools to efficiently provide the wrap-around social services those kids need & get.

::Sigh:: I can't help you if you ignore the facts

How does low-income students attending a high-income school benefit high-income students?

Google it

[Anonymous]

OP is just upset she spent all her money on her big SFH in Takoma Park and now cannot afford to send her kids to public school.

She sounds deranged. Qanon deranged but the progressive kind. SMH.