Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?
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Anonymous
+1 I think I must be missing something from the argument above. |
Anonymous
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HHI: $350
Kensington, $500's Two attorneys Einstein (not now, eventually for HS) For now, yes, but I have a LOT of concern about Newport & Einstein. We would move to a W district in a heartbeat but can't afford it. |
Anonymous
I assume you are in massive debt, since 350k HHI can certainly afford it otherwise |
Anonymous
+1 yea, I don't get this. On that salary you should be able to afford a decent SFH in WJ or Wootton cluster. |
Anonymous
| I think overall it's true that the wealthier you are, the more you complain or have higher expectations. It also depends on how you grew up. I went to a crap HS in CA, and MCPS is leagues better than most of CA school districts. But, even though my HS was crap, we did have AP classes, and several people went on to upper tier universities. There were some really smart kids there. So, as a PP stated, just work hard, and you'll be fine. |
Anonymous
How much money you have affects how you feel about your child's school/education in part because it influences what choices you have. I think the high school my house is zoned for is lacking. It's poorly maintained, lacking air conditioning and drinkable water in the water fountains. It leaks, floors and ceiling, when it rains. There are bathrooms that have been out of service for over a year. Walls are cracked, floors are uneven. If my office looked like this, I would refuse to work there. The teachers are mostly good, especially for upper level honors/AP classes. There are a decent number of courses to choose from. There are a variety of opportunities through classes, clubs, and athletics. The students are a mix. There are a number of students who are on their way to dropping out. There are a significant number of students who do not speak english and the school is not particularly good at integrating the english speaking and english learning students, creating at least a 2-tiered education system. There are some significant behavior problems that affect the entire student body. Students can avoid many of these by getting on the "right" academic track and being careful around campus. It is easy for an undirected student to fall in with a number of different crowds. If you're lucky, your undirected student falls in with the studious or focused kids. If you're not, your undirected student might fall in with the early drop outs or budding criminals. If I didn't have money, I'd make do. I'd be on my children to make sure they're able to get into the courses with the best teachers and most focused students, I'd make sure they had plenty of water to take to school, and I'd do my best to make sure they had access to functional bathrooms. I'd supplement areas the school couldn't handle, making sure they had access to classes beyond calculus, experienced some good lab science classes, or had access to a variety of foreign languages if that was their path, to the best of my ability. Since I have money, I send my children to private school, where they have drinkable water in the water fountains, functional and clean bathrooms, and dedicated students and teachers. This means I don't have to be particularly worried about the health or safety of my children at school. My neighbor children go to the zoned school and they're fine. My children would be fine. But I'm willing to spend money to get them a better environment because I have the money. If I didn't have the money, I'd focus on the teacher quality and focused students instead of the decrepit building and regular fights. |
Anonymous
| Fortunately the new Seneca Valley HS building will open in time for the 2020-2021 school year. |
Anonymous
I kind of feel this way, too. My hs was also not some great intellectual powerhouse. We read very few books. No AP classes at all. (In fact I'd never heard of AP until I went to college.) I did go to an Ivy, though. We are pretty well off with a HHI of around $275 and our kids go to school in the DCC area. I wouldn't say their education is perfect - it makes me crazy they don't learn enough grammar and don't read as much as I'd like and at the same time I think there's too much emphasis on homework in the early grades. But it's good in other ways, we make them take foreign languages to get the grammar, and they get a lot of exposure to ideas, reading, and music at home that I think makes up for some of the deficits at school. |
Anonymous
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HHI: 500k
Takoma Park: 1M+ Professionals Blair DD is in TPMS magnet and DS in the Blair STEM magnet so this worked out well for us. |
Anonymous
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What is your household income? How much are you paying for housing? Where do you live? What do you and your partner do for a living?
350K, Paid 240K, house worth 650K. Germantown, SAHM and IT professional. What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend? 3 kids attend/attended MCPS - magnet throughout. RM, poolesville, clemente. Are you happy with the school and education? If not, why not private school (or vice versa, why not public)? What are your school's pros and cons? Sort of. We are immigrants and supplement with syllabus and textbooks from our home country. We did not find private schools better for academics. Find more people interested in academics in magnet programs. Happy with the diversity of public schools. If you could change schools, where would you go and why? Nowhere in this country. Maybe Singapore or Europe. |
Anonymous
| Does your lack of English writing skills "inform how you feel" about what your fingers type? |
Anonymous
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For the record my values and standards determine how I feel about my childrens' schools. Furthermore, I consistently demonstrate my values and standards in my decision-making and behavior - at work, at home, on the field. Just like everyone else does.
Actions always speak louder than words, especially on anonymous boards like DCUM. |
Anonymous
I guess I do just fine without any skills then. And you do just fine without any manners. |
Anonymous
Student loans |
Anonymous
I just came back from the all day open house for my 6th grader at Newport and I have to say it was very impressive. I am one of those parents who has spent the last 5 years worrying about middle school. The kids were respectful and thoughtful, the teachers were warm but firm, and the lessons were ineteresting. Every time the teacher asked a question, more than half of the students raised their hands to answer. To their credit, the teachers also sometimes cold-called on those who didn't raise their hand to be sure everyone understood. Basically, I saw no evidence of anything I'd been worried about for 5 years. |