Stay at TT or Retire to Suburbs

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Anonymous wrote:>There are legit “townies” with DUIs, eight kids, no college, pick ups, and they become grandparents in their late 30s

Is this issue here that your kids have to know and interact with "regular" Americans? Like that would be so bad?

Lol. Apparently there are no locals in Westchester. Only if you slum it in New Jersey or Long Island do you have to deal with the low life riff raff "locals".

There are townies in Rye, low income people in Bronxville apartments, and Port Chester exists. Mount Kisco is ruining Fox Lane. Happy now?

I knew someone who lived in a Bronxville apartment. They were low income by Bronxville standards but still quite high income, white collar professionals with one having an Ivy degree. Not everyone who goes to top schools pursues high paying degrees, but they might still want an excellent education for their child so find a way to make it work. It is not easy being the "poor folk" in town but in a case like this, the gap is not as huge as if they were in the Westchester equivalent of NYCHA or something like that (which the government is trying to get all of these rich towns to build, which would be a nightmare for all parties involved).

I guess you're living in a nightmare because horror of horrors, there are public housing developments in Westchester county.

I know that. And I am probably more liberal and supportive of such things than you. But planting some of these developments in some of the places they are suggesting planting them is an awful idea. It needs to be done more intelligently and thoughtful. Otherwise you are setting the people who move into them up to fail.

Shouldn't have opened that can of worms...

Access to affordable housing is critical to success. Setting people up to fail is having nowhere that they can afford to put a roof over their family's head.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:>There are legit “townies” with DUIs, eight kids, no college, pick ups, and they become grandparents in their late 30s

Is this issue here that your kids have to know and interact with "regular" Americans? Like that would be so bad?

Lol. Apparently there are no locals in Westchester. Only if you slum it in New Jersey or Long Island do you have to deal with the low life riff raff "locals".

There are townies in Rye, low income people in Bronxville apartments, and Port Chester exists. Mount Kisco is ruining Fox Lane. Happy now?

I knew someone who lived in a Bronxville apartment. They were low income by Bronxville standards but still quite high income, white collar professionals with one having an Ivy degree. Not everyone who goes to top schools pursues high paying degrees, but they might still want an excellent education for their child so find a way to make it work. It is not easy being the "poor folk" in town but in a case like this, the gap is not as huge as if they were in the Westchester equivalent of NYCHA or something like that (which the government is trying to get all of these rich towns to build, which would be a nightmare for all parties involved).

I guess you're living in a nightmare because horror of horrors, there are public housing developments in Westchester county.

Yea, so don’t send your daughter to the public open enrollment schools they go to or else they’ll be dating DJ Dougie Fresh

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:>There are legit “townies” with DUIs, eight kids, no college, pick ups, and they become grandparents in their late 30s

Is this issue here that your kids have to know and interact with "regular" Americans? Like that would be so bad?

Lol. Apparently there are no locals in Westchester. Only if you slum it in New Jersey or Long Island do you have to deal with the low life riff raff "locals".

There are townies in Rye, low income people in Bronxville apartments, and Port Chester exists. Mount Kisco is ruining Fox Lane. Happy now?

I knew someone who lived in a Bronxville apartment. They were low income by Bronxville standards but still quite high income, white collar professionals with one having an Ivy degree. Not everyone who goes to top schools pursues high paying degrees, but they might still want an excellent education for their child so find a way to make it work. It is not easy being the "poor folk" in town but in a case like this, the gap is not as huge as if they were in the Westchester equivalent of NYCHA or something like that (which the government is trying to get all of these rich towns to build, which would be a nightmare for all parties involved).

I guess you're living in a nightmare because horror of horrors, there are public housing developments in Westchester county.

Yea, so don’t send your daughter to the public open enrollment schools they go to or else they’ll be dating DJ Dougie Fresh

Princeton New Jersey also has a public housing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:>There are legit “townies” with DUIs, eight kids, no college, pick ups, and they become grandparents in their late 30s

Is this issue here that your kids have to know and interact with "regular" Americans? Like that would be so bad?

Lol. Apparently there are no locals in Westchester. Only if you slum it in New Jersey or Long Island do you have to deal with the low life riff raff "locals".

There are townies in Rye, low income people in Bronxville apartments, and Port Chester exists. Mount Kisco is ruining Fox Lane. Happy now?

I knew someone who lived in a Bronxville apartment. They were low income by Bronxville standards but still quite high income, white collar professionals with one having an Ivy degree. Not everyone who goes to top schools pursues high paying degrees, but they might still want an excellent education for their child so find a way to make it work. It is not easy being the "poor folk" in town but in a case like this, the gap is not as huge as if they were in the Westchester equivalent of NYCHA or something like that (which the government is trying to get all of these rich towns to build, which would be a nightmare for all parties involved).

I guess you're living in a nightmare because horror of horrors, there are public housing developments in Westchester county.

Yea, so don’t send your daughter to the public open enrollment schools they go to or else they’ll be dating DJ Dougie Fresh

Princeton New Jersey also has a public housing.

The bad eggs aren’t getting into Lville

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:>There are legit “townies” with DUIs, eight kids, no college, pick ups, and they become grandparents in their late 30s

Is this issue here that your kids have to know and interact with "regular" Americans? Like that would be so bad?

Lol. Apparently there are no locals in Westchester. Only if you slum it in New Jersey or Long Island do you have to deal with the low life riff raff "locals".

There are townies in Rye, low income people in Bronxville apartments, and Port Chester exists. Mount Kisco is ruining Fox Lane. Happy now?

I knew someone who lived in a Bronxville apartment. They were low income by Bronxville standards but still quite high income, white collar professionals with one having an Ivy degree. Not everyone who goes to top schools pursues high paying degrees, but they might still want an excellent education for their child so find a way to make it work. It is not easy being the "poor folk" in town but in a case like this, the gap is not as huge as if they were in the Westchester equivalent of NYCHA or something like that (which the government is trying to get all of these rich towns to build, which would be a nightmare for all parties involved).

I guess you're living in a nightmare because horror of horrors, there are public housing developments in Westchester county.

Yea, so don’t send your daughter to the public open enrollment schools they go to or else they’ll be dating DJ Dougie Fresh

Princeton New Jersey also has a public housing.

The bad eggs aren’t getting into Lville

Poor bad eggs can't go to school with those weirdo snobletes.

[Anonymous]

FWIW, I have not been impressed with my kid’s TT lower/midlle school education, everyone tutors and I don’t think it’s to keep up, it’s because of the quality of the teachers and curriculum. The math is very bad, and I had to teach my kid grammar with amazon workbooks. Just to say, it’s all a crapshoot.

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW, I have not been impressed with my kid’s TT lower/midlle school education, everyone tutors and I don’t think it’s to keep up, it’s because of the quality of the teachers and curriculum. The math is very bad, and I had to teach my kid grammar with amazon workbooks. Just to say, it’s all a crapshoot.

OP here, this sounds eerily similar to my experience. Maybe we are at the same TT LOL

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Anonymous wrote:>There are legit “townies” with DUIs, eight kids, no college, pick ups, and they become grandparents in their late 30s

Is this issue here that your kids have to know and interact with "regular" Americans? Like that would be so bad?

Lol. Apparently there are no locals in Westchester. Only if you slum it in New Jersey or Long Island do you have to deal with the low life riff raff "locals".

There are townies in Rye, low income people in Bronxville apartments, and Port Chester exists. Mount Kisco is ruining Fox Lane. Happy now?

I knew someone who lived in a Bronxville apartment. They were low income by Bronxville standards but still quite high income, white collar professionals with one having an Ivy degree. Not everyone who goes to top schools pursues high paying degrees, but they might still want an excellent education for their child so find a way to make it work. It is not easy being the "poor folk" in town but in a case like this, the gap is not as huge as if they were in the Westchester equivalent of NYCHA or something like that (which the government is trying to get all of these rich towns to build, which would be a nightmare for all parties involved).

I guess you're living in a nightmare because horror of horrors, there are public housing developments in Westchester county.

Yea, so don’t send your daughter to the public open enrollment schools they go to or else they’ll be dating DJ Dougie Fresh

Princeton New Jersey also has a public housing.

The bad eggs aren’t getting into Lville

Poor bad eggs can't go to school with those weirdo snobletes.

Charming, saying a large group of high schoolers are “weird.” At least they’ll go to much better colleges than Princeton High

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW, I have not been impressed with my kid’s TT lower/midlle school education, everyone tutors and I don’t think it’s to keep up, it’s because of the quality of the teachers and curriculum. The math is very bad, and I had to teach my kid grammar with amazon workbooks. Just to say, it’s all a crapshoot.

OP here, this sounds eerily similar to my experience. Maybe we are at the same TT LOL

Last time I checked I believe the consensus was that there are 7 TT's, though there have been pages of debate on the topic...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:>There are legit “townies” with DUIs, eight kids, no college, pick ups, and they become grandparents in their late 30s

Is this issue here that your kids have to know and interact with "regular" Americans? Like that would be so bad?

Lol. Apparently there are no locals in Westchester. Only if you slum it in New Jersey or Long Island do you have to deal with the low life riff raff "locals".

There are townies in Rye, low income people in Bronxville apartments, and Port Chester exists. Mount Kisco is ruining Fox Lane. Happy now?

I knew someone who lived in a Bronxville apartment. They were low income by Bronxville standards but still quite high income, white collar professionals with one having an Ivy degree. Not everyone who goes to top schools pursues high paying degrees, but they might still want an excellent education for their child so find a way to make it work. It is not easy being the "poor folk" in town but in a case like this, the gap is not as huge as if they were in the Westchester equivalent of NYCHA or something like that (which the government is trying to get all of these rich towns to build, which would be a nightmare for all parties involved).

I guess you're living in a nightmare because horror of horrors, there are public housing developments in Westchester county.

Yea, so don’t send your daughter to the public open enrollment schools they go to or else they’ll be dating DJ Dougie Fresh

Princeton New Jersey also has a public housing.

The bad eggs aren’t getting into Lville

Poor bad eggs can't go to school with those weirdo snobletes.

Charming, saying a large group of high schoolers are “weird.” At least they’ll go to much better colleges than Princeton High

Nothing charming about crapping on people that live in public housing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:>There are legit “townies” with DUIs, eight kids, no college, pick ups, and they become grandparents in their late 30s

Is this issue here that your kids have to know and interact with "regular" Americans? Like that would be so bad?

Lol. Apparently there are no locals in Westchester. Only if you slum it in New Jersey or Long Island do you have to deal with the low life riff raff "locals".

There are townies in Rye, low income people in Bronxville apartments, and Port Chester exists. Mount Kisco is ruining Fox Lane. Happy now?

I knew someone who lived in a Bronxville apartment. They were low income by Bronxville standards but still quite high income, white collar professionals with one having an Ivy degree. Not everyone who goes to top schools pursues high paying degrees, but they might still want an excellent education for their child so find a way to make it work. It is not easy being the "poor folk" in town but in a case like this, the gap is not as huge as if they were in the Westchester equivalent of NYCHA or something like that (which the government is trying to get all of these rich towns to build, which would be a nightmare for all parties involved).

I guess you're living in a nightmare because horror of horrors, there are public housing developments in Westchester county.

Yea, so don’t send your daughter to the public open enrollment schools they go to or else they’ll be dating DJ Dougie Fresh

Princeton New Jersey also has a public housing.

The bad eggs aren’t getting into Lville

Poor bad eggs can't go to school with those weirdo snobletes.

Charming, saying a large group of high schoolers are “weird.” At least they’ll go to much better colleges than Princeton High

Nothing charming about crapping on people that live in public housing.

I’m not condoning how they described them. It is not at all unreasonable to say having public housing and low-income residents has a negative impact on the academics of a given public school district.

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Anonymous wrote:>There are legit “townies” with DUIs, eight kids, no college, pick ups, and they become grandparents in their late 30s

Is this issue here that your kids have to know and interact with "regular" Americans? Like that would be so bad?

Lol. Apparently there are no locals in Westchester. Only if you slum it in New Jersey or Long Island do you have to deal with the low life riff raff "locals".

There are townies in Rye, low income people in Bronxville apartments, and Port Chester exists. Mount Kisco is ruining Fox Lane. Happy now?

I knew someone who lived in a Bronxville apartment. They were low income by Bronxville standards but still quite high income, white collar professionals with one having an Ivy degree. Not everyone who goes to top schools pursues high paying degrees, but they might still want an excellent education for their child so find a way to make it work. It is not easy being the "poor folk" in town but in a case like this, the gap is not as huge as if they were in the Westchester equivalent of NYCHA or something like that (which the government is trying to get all of these rich towns to build, which would be a nightmare for all parties involved).

I guess you're living in a nightmare because horror of horrors, there are public housing developments in Westchester county.

Yea, so don’t send your daughter to the public open enrollment schools they go to or else they’ll be dating DJ Dougie Fresh

Princeton New Jersey also has a public housing.

The bad eggs aren’t getting into Lville

Poor bad eggs can't go to school with those weirdo snobletes.

Charming, saying a large group of high schoolers are “weird.” At least they’ll go to much better colleges than Princeton High

Nothing charming about crapping on people that live in public housing.

I’m not condoning how they described them. It is not at all unreasonable to say having public housing and low-income residents has a negative impact on the academics of a given public school district.

That's not what was said by the Lawrenceville poster. I guess Lawrenceville can dish it out but they can't take it.

[Anonymous]

Stay. We had to make the same decision and chose to stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stay. We had to make the same decision and chose to stay.

OP here, may I ask you what made you ultimately stay? Was it purely based on school or were there other considerations (commute, lifestyle, etc.)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FWIW, I have not been impressed with my kid’s TT lower/midlle school education, everyone tutors and I don’t think it’s to keep up, it’s because of the quality of the teachers and curriculum. The math is very bad, and I had to teach my kid grammar with amazon workbooks. Just to say, it’s all a crapshoot.

Very interesting, would love to know which school

Why is the math so bad? Don’t they all use Singapore math