What type of school would you chose for your kids?

[Anonymous]

Talk to parents who use the middle school. They will be able to tell you if the “bullying” is serious or just kid stuff. Greatschools is nonsense - we have been at a 9 and a 4, and we strongly preferred the 4 for our kids. Get to know the culture and community of the middle school rather than switching based on fear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, this is why people bite the bullet financially and buy houses zoned to good schools.

Is it not possible for you to move?

Op - to expand on this - we bought what we could afford (stretched it) about 10 years ago. We could probably afford a more expensive house now but we have 3 kids and a 2.4% interest rate. Seems foolish to move with such a low rate. We would need at least a 4 bedroom house and 3000 sq ft. That would probably be close to $1 million or more now. We bought our house for $700,000.

So you can afford private schools for three kids, but not a house in a better school district. Hmmm…looks like you have misplaced priorities.

Give up the big house in the crappy district, and get something modest in a better one. You should not have bought your current house in the first place if you wanted kids, but that is water under the bridge now. Time to fix your mistake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, this is why people bite the bullet financially and buy houses zoned to good schools.

Is it not possible for you to move?

Op - to expand on this - we bought what we could afford (stretched it) about 10 years ago. We could probably afford a more expensive house now but we have 3 kids and a 2.4% interest rate. Seems foolish to move with such a low rate. We would need at least a 4 bedroom house and 3000 sq ft. That would probably be close to $1 million or more now. We bought our house for $700,000.

So you can afford private schools for three kids, but not a house in a better school district. Hmmm…looks like you have misplaced priorities.

Give up the big house in the crappy district, and get something modest in a better one. You should not have bought your current house in the first place if you wanted kids, but that is water under the bridge now. Time to fix your mistake.

Op - that makes no sense. For 3 kids in parochial school it will be $18,000 a year. That is a lot cheaper than a $1 million mortgage.

Our house is not big. It’s 2600 square ft, 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath. But similar houses in good school districts are going for closer to $1-1.5 million. With a 7.5% interest rate that would be a much higher PITI than what we have right now.