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

[Anonymous]

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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.

Would be happy to let parents pay to educate their own kids.

Which we do now.

Yes this is private school. In public school, you force your neighbors to foot the bill.

Yes, that’s how all civilized societies work. Not every parent can afford private school. Should their kids just not be able to go to school if that’s the case? What if the kids are such that no private school would accept them—undocumented, low income, disabled, ESOL or from an abusive household? Or should “those kids” just work in the fields all day instead while your Larla goes to school?

The parents who rely on the generosity of their neighbors like OP should check their entitlement.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Would be happy to let parents pay to educate their own kids.

Which we do now.

Yes this is private school. In public school, you force your neighbors to foot the bill.

That is not new or rare.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Would be happy to let parents pay to educate their own kids.

Which we do now.

Yes this is private school. In public school, you force your neighbors to foot the bill.

Yes, that’s how all civilized societies work. Not every parent can afford private school. Should their kids just not be able to go to school if that’s the case? What if the kids are such that no private school would accept them—undocumented, low income, disabled, ESOL or from an abusive household? Or should “those kids” just work in the fields all day instead while your Larla goes to school?

The parents who rely on the generosity of their neighbors like OP should check their entitlement.

Paying your taxes is not “generosity.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Would be happy to let parents pay to educate their own kids.

Which we do now.

Yes this is private school. In public school, you force your neighbors to foot the bill.

Yes, that’s how all civilized societies work. Not every parent can afford private school. Should their kids just not be able to go to school if that’s the case? What if the kids are such that no private school would accept them—undocumented, low income, disabled, ESOL or from an abusive household? Or should “those kids” just work in the fields all day instead while your Larla goes to school?

The parents who rely on the generosity of their neighbors like OP should check their entitlement.

Answer all the questions.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Would be happy to let parents pay to educate their own kids.

Which we do now.

Yes this is private school. In public school, you force your neighbors to foot the bill.

Yes, that’s how all civilized societies work. Not every parent can afford private school. Should their kids just not be able to go to school if that’s the case? What if the kids are such that no private school would accept them—undocumented, low income, disabled, ESOL or from an abusive household? Or should “those kids” just work in the fields all day instead while your Larla goes to school?

The parents who rely on the generosity of their neighbors like OP should check their entitlement.

Public schools don’t get funding for kids who aren’t enrolled. You aren’t paying property taxes to a specific school.

[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.

OP you are adorable. Now please tell us who is “we” is. You and 3 of your neighbors?

I’ve got news for you: the needle never moves. Bad schools will be bad 10, 20 years from now, too.

Not necessarily true. We have no idea what development and policy may bring in that timeframe. For one thing, county governments are set on dispersing affordable housing throughout the area instead of concentrating it into pockets which has been the case over the past few decades. Now developers are incentivized and/or required to include affordable housing units even in luxury apartments. All of this means that poor people will have increased access to live within the good schools which will inevitably decrease their scores. The schools that are already bad will see re-development as aging low-income garden complexes are torn down and replaced with new units (which will still have affordable units). In general this points to a regression to the mean for significantly good schools and slight boost for bad schools. They won't be as bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Would be happy to let parents pay to educate their own kids.

Which we do now.

Yes this is private school. In public school, you force your neighbors to foot the bill.

Yes, that’s how all civilized societies work. Not every parent can afford private school. Should their kids just not be able to go to school if that’s the case? What if the kids are such that no private school would accept them—undocumented, low income, disabled, ESOL or from an abusive household? Or should “those kids” just work in the fields all day instead while your Larla goes to school?

The parents who rely on the generosity of their neighbors like OP should check their entitlement.

Public schools don’t get funding for kids who aren’t enrolled. You aren’t paying property taxes to a specific school.

If your kids are enrolled, I’m paying for them. The truth is I can move anywhere and support or not support any area I want.

[Anonymous]

We live in a district which I’m pretty sure does not have any “subsidized housing,” thankfully. If a 25+ year old adult can’t come up with $1600/month for an apt, something is very wrong & their kids will likely be misbehaved brats.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Would be happy to let parents pay to educate their own kids.

Which we do now.

Yes this is private school. In public school, you force your neighbors to foot the bill.

Yes, that’s how all civilized societies work. Not every parent can afford private school. Should their kids just not be able to go to school if that’s the case? What if the kids are such that no private school would accept them—undocumented, low income, disabled, ESOL or from an abusive household? Or should “those kids” just work in the fields all day instead while your Larla goes to school?

The parents who rely on the generosity of their neighbors like OP should check their entitlement.

Public schools don’t get funding for kids who aren’t enrolled. You aren’t paying property taxes to a specific school.

If your kids are enrolled, I’m paying for them. The truth is I can move anywhere and support or not support any area I want.

You cannot refuse to pay property taxes, anywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Would be happy to let parents pay to educate their own kids.

Which we do now.

Yes this is private school. In public school, you force your neighbors to foot the bill.

Yes, that’s how all civilized societies work. Not every parent can afford private school. Should their kids just not be able to go to school if that’s the case? What if the kids are such that no private school would accept them—undocumented, low income, disabled, ESOL or from an abusive household? Or should “those kids” just work in the fields all day instead while your Larla goes to school?

The parents who rely on the generosity of their neighbors like OP should check their entitlement.

Public schools don’t get funding for kids who aren’t enrolled. You aren’t paying property taxes to a specific school.

If your kids are enrolled, I’m paying for them. The truth is I can move anywhere and support or not support any area I want.

Again, not how it works. Schools are funded based on # of students enrolled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

OP you are adorable. Now please tell us who is “we” is. You and 3 of your neighbors?

I’ve got news for you: the needle never moves. Bad schools will be bad 10, 20 years from now, too.

Not necessarily true. We have no idea what development and policy may bring in that timeframe. For one thing, county governments are set on dispersing affordable housing throughout the area instead of concentrating it into pockets which has been the case over the past few decades. Now developers are incentivized and/or required to include affordable housing units even in luxury apartments. All of this means that poor people will have increased access to live within the good schools which will inevitably decrease their scores. The schools that are already bad will see re-development as aging low-income garden complexes are torn down and replaced with new units (which will still have affordable units). In general this points to a regression to the mean for significantly good schools and slight boost for bad schools. They won't be as bad.

Right, better for everyone to be average than for anyone to excel.

[Anonymous]

OP get rid of all section 8 housing, subsidized housing, duplexes and non-“luxury” apartments. Then I will send my kid to public school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP get rid of all section 8 housing, subsidized housing, duplexes and non-“luxury” apartments. Then I will send my kid to public school.

I see..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP get rid of all section 8 housing, subsidized housing, duplexes and non-“luxury” apartments. Then I will send my kid to public school.

I see..

Glad you see. Honesty is best.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for this post. You articulate it better than me.

For the record, when i speak about diversity i mean economic diversity. I dont think my left leaning neighbors are trying to avoid POC (and some of them are POC). I think they are trying to avoid classes with kids who are not performing well, who can be disturbing etc... WHich i understand. But by doing that they contribute to the problem of having classes with a higher % of kids who need help. And there is a tipping point you want to avoid to maintain a good academic atmosphere.

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Montgomery County MD has far greater numbers of private schools and therefore capacity than NOVA. Property taxes are based on real estate and there is no reduction if owners or tenants do not have students in public schools. DC residents have a choice on tax payer funded public or charter or privates [located in DC,MD,VA]. Virginia has 7 charter schools serving about 1000 students statewide. The only 2 of relevant size are in Richmond and VA Beach, each with about 350 students. This was the result in DC and given choice many went charter so once enough parents moved into charters the impact on the schools was what?

1996-1997 0.20% 99.80% 78,808
2005-2006 24.37% 75.63% 73,115
2010-2011 39.12% 60.85% 74,986
2019-2020 46.06% 53.94% 94,412

Exactly who is going to tell DC parents to return to public? If any given parent in Takoma Park MD is dissatisfied with public then ask yourself why? Private schools seats just don't pop up in the massive volume like DC charters so I would not worry about erosion in the MoCo public school academic environment.