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

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t move to Alexandria City or the nice parts near route one then

This. I live in Alexandria (foolish moved here before we had kids). There is zero chance I am sending my kids to ACPS. My kids are in private. Eat my shorts OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

OP here, I actually can afford to send my kid to private school. I don’t subscribe to conspiracy theories. The facts about the benefits of school integration across income levels are well known. But given the reaction to the posters who tried to point that out, your kind doesn’t link data very much.

[Anonymous]

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

+1 blaming neighbors for not sending kids to public school, whether they have kids or not, is really bizarre and none of your business

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t move to Alexandria City or the nice parts near route one then

This. I live in Alexandria (foolish moved here before we had kids). There is zero chance I am sending my kids to ACPS. My kids are in private. Eat my shorts OP!

Id’ rather not eat them. But you are actually making my point. You didn’t move to an area with reasonably good schools so you feel you have no options. I would probably do the same in your case. The difference in my neighborhood is that the schools are not bad and had been seriously improving over the past 20 years. They are (were?) on a good trend. And I hope it will continue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Neither can the vast majority of private schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t move to Alexandria City or the nice parts near route one then

This. I live in Alexandria (foolish moved here before we had kids). There is zero chance I am sending my kids to ACPS. My kids are in private. Eat my shorts OP!

Id’ rather not eat them. But you are actually making my point. You didn’t move to an area with reasonably good schools so you feel you have no options[/b]. I would probably do the same in your case[b]. The difference in my neighborhood is that the schools are not bad and had been seriously improving over the past 20 years. They are (were?) on a good trend. And I hope it will continue.

Hypocrite.

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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

There’s nothing to Google. Because they don’t benefit. It’s all a charade and illusion with cherry-picked data to ram choice, busing and subsidized housing down middle class proles’ throats.

[Anonymous]

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

+1 blaming neighbors for not sending kids to public school, whether they have kids or not, is really bizarre and none of your business

People without kids do not have the same impact. People with kids who choose to take their kids out of public school and send them to private have an impact on their neighbors, the more they are, the more they put pressure on their neighbors to not send their kids to public school. Because parents start to worry that they are not doing the right thing and if Larla and Larlo don’t go to public school it means it is not good enough.

Look, I understand the posters who say they do not care at all because the fate of public schools don’t matter to them. They have been pretty vocal on this thread and very clear about why they think public school is not something worth investing in.

But posters who think it has no impact when a growing number of UMC kids are not going to the local public schools are disingenuous or ignoring facts. Again if you don’t care, fine. But please don’t ignore the fact that it does have an impact.

[Anonymous]

I’d rather not fund the public schools for entitled and nosy parents like OP. Maybe raise your own kids?

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t move to Alexandria City or the nice parts near route one then

This. I live in Alexandria (foolish moved here before we had kids). There is zero chance I am sending my kids to ACPS. My kids are in private. Eat my shorts OP!

Id’ rather not eat them. But you are actually making my point. You didn’t move to an area with reasonably good schools so you feel you have no options. I would probably do the same in your case. The difference in my neighborhood is that the schools are not bad and had been seriously improving over the past 20 years. They are (were?) on a good trend. And I hope it will continue.

Oh, so you generously allow that it’s OK for parents to pick a private school if the public option isn’t “reasonably good”.

Who made you the arbiter of what makes a school good enough? Presumably, those parents made the exact same assessment - is the public school good enough? - and came to a different conclusion than you did.

Why are you so salty that you don’t get to make that decision for everyone? Your arrogance is astounding, as is your entitlement. You are not entitled to the presence of your neighbors’ kids in your kids’ classroom. Your neighbors do not owe you a say in their children’s education. They get to make a decision, just as you do.

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

+1 blaming neighbors for not sending kids to public school, whether they have kids or not, is really bizarre and none of your business

People without kids do not have the same impact. People with kids who choose to take their kids out of public school and send them to private have an impact on their neighbors, the more they are, the more they put pressure on their neighbors to not send their kids to public school. Because parents start to worry that they are not doing the right thing and if Larla and Larlo don’t go to public school it means it is not good enough.

Look, I understand the posters who say they do not care at all because the fate of public schools don’t matter to them. They have been pretty vocal on this thread and very clear about why they think public school is not something worth investing in.

But posters who think it has no impact when a growing number of UMC kids are not going to the local public schools are disingenuous or ignoring facts. Again if you don’t care, fine. But please don’t ignore the fact that it does have an impact.

Dramatically change the culture of the local public regarding behavior & discipline, basically eliminate screen time, healthy school lunches, no junk food “prizes,” at least 1 hr recess and spend all extra money on enrichment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d rather not fund the public schools for entitled and nosy parents like OP. Maybe raise your own kids?

You’d rather not fund them at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t move to Alexandria City or the nice parts near route one then

This. I live in Alexandria (foolish moved here before we had kids). There is zero chance I am sending my kids to ACPS. My kids are in private. Eat my shorts OP!

Id’ rather not eat them. But you are actually making my point. You didn’t move to an area with reasonably good schools so you feel you have no options[/b]. I would probably do the same in your case[b]. The difference in my neighborhood is that the schools are not bad and had been seriously improving over the past 20 years. They are (were?) on a good trend. And I hope it will continue.

Hypocrite.

That’s correct. You can call me a conflicted hypocrite. I can’t send my kids to terrible schools. As other pointed out my kids are not social experiments, I owe it to them to give them a good education. But I don’t want to run away from a reasonably good public school because I can afford private. If I can contribute to the local public school I will choose that.

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

+1 blaming neighbors for not sending kids to public school, whether they have kids or not, is really bizarre and none of your business

People without kids do not have the same impact. People with kids who choose to take their kids out of public school and send them to private have an impact on their neighbors, the more they are, the more they put pressure on their neighbors to not send their kids to public school. Because parents start to worry that they are not doing the right thing and if Larla and Larlo don’t go to public school it means it is not good enough.

Look, I understand the posters who say they do not care at all because the fate of public schools don’t matter to them. They have been pretty vocal on this thread and very clear about why they think public school is not something worth investing in.

But posters who think it has no impact when a growing number of UMC kids are not going to the local public schools are disingenuous or ignoring facts. Again if you don’t care, fine. But please don’t ignore the fact that it does have an impact.

Complete nonsense. My parenting decisions should have no impact on anyone else. If you care what I do, that is your problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t move to Alexandria City or the nice parts near route one then

This. I live in Alexandria (foolish moved here before we had kids). There is zero chance I am sending my kids to ACPS. My kids are in private. Eat my shorts OP!

Id’ rather not eat them. But you are actually making my point. You didn’t move to an area with reasonably good schools so you feel you have no options[/b]. I would probably do the same in your case[b]. The difference in my neighborhood is that the schools are not bad and had been seriously improving over the past 20 years. They are (were?) on a good trend. And I hope it will continue.

Hypocrite.

That’s correct. You can call me a conflicted hypocrite. I can’t send my kids to terrible schools. As other pointed out my kids are not social experiments, I owe it to them to give them a good education. But I don’t want to run away from a reasonably good public school because I can afford private. If I can contribute to the local public school I will choose that.

Why do you think you’re better than parents who send their kids to private when you made the same calculus in choosing where to live?