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

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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.

This is the most reasonable response on here.

Worry about your own kids. End of story.

Eh people's parenting decisions do affect others as discussed on this thread. However, I agree it's unreasonable to expect parents to send their children to a school they don't want to send them to, purely for the good of society. Public school systems should work make the schools good so parents want to send their kids there and, to that end, local governments should support these efforts by integrating multifamily housing across the jurisdiction instead of concentrating it in certain areas. Instead the MCPS culture is "you take what you get and you don't get upset", and if people say they are leaving the school system people say "Good riddance!".

I totally agree with you. The schools are a product of (racist) housing policy. For very poor performing schools, it won’t make a bit of difference of a few UMC kids are there. This is an issue that the government has to solve, not individual homeowners.

How can the government solve problems like 40% of a class not speaking English? What do you propose to make that type of environment acceptable for a typical American parent?

Whoosh

Maybe that isn’t a problem for the public schools. Online ESL training.

You'll have to hope SCOTUS overturns Lau v. Nichols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_v._Nichols

Serious question - does public school have to be in-person or can it be online?

I am not a legal expert but I would guess warehousing all the ESL students into virtual school is a no-no.

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Anonymous wrote:I giggle when I read people applauding kids going from low-income public schools to private colleges like Yale. Using OP’s logic, shouldn’t those kids be going to Salisbury or Towson instead?

Great point. Transparent social climbing phonies and hypocrites. Their hard-on for public education, diversity and a magical lower income friend group for their kids goes out the window when it comes to college.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s hilarious when $50,000/year private primary & secondary schools try to act so “progressive” when they have zero first gen, ESOL, undocumented or disabled students.

Don’t care. Enjoy your government school.

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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.

This is the most reasonable response on here.

Worry about your own kids. End of story.

Eh people's parenting decisions do affect others as discussed on this thread. However, I agree it's unreasonable to expect parents to send their children to a school they don't want to send them to, purely for the good of society. Public school systems should work make the schools good so parents want to send their kids there and, to that end, local governments should support these efforts by integrating multifamily housing across the jurisdiction instead of concentrating it in certain areas. Instead the MCPS culture is "you take what you get and you don't get upset", and if people say they are leaving the school system people say "Good riddance!".

I totally agree with you. The schools are a product of (racist) housing policy. For very poor performing schools, it won’t make a bit of difference of a few UMC kids are there. This is an issue that the government has to solve, not individual homeowners.

How can the government solve problems like 40% of a class not speaking English? What do you propose to make that type of environment acceptable for a typical American parent?

Whoosh

Maybe that isn’t a problem for the public schools. Online ESL training.

You'll have to hope SCOTUS overturns Lau v. Nichols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_v._Nichols

Serious question - does public school have to be in-person or can it be online?

I am not a legal expert but I would guess warehousing all the ESL students into virtual school is a no-no.

What about converting an entire public school to online only?

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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.

This is the most reasonable response on here.

Worry about your own kids. End of story.

Eh people's parenting decisions do affect others as discussed on this thread. However, I agree it's unreasonable to expect parents to send their children to a school they don't want to send them to, purely for the good of society. Public school systems should work make the schools good so parents want to send their kids there and, to that end, local governments should support these efforts by integrating multifamily housing across the jurisdiction instead of concentrating it in certain areas. Instead the MCPS culture is "you take what you get and you don't get upset", and if people say they are leaving the school system people say "Good riddance!".

I totally agree with you. The schools are a product of (racist) housing policy. For very poor performing schools, it won’t make a bit of difference of a few UMC kids are there. This is an issue that the government has to solve, not individual homeowners.

How can the government solve problems like 40% of a class not speaking English? What do you propose to make that type of environment acceptable for a typical American parent?

Whoosh

Maybe that isn’t a problem for the public schools. Online ESL training.

You'll have to hope SCOTUS overturns Lau v. Nichols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_v._Nichols

Serious question - does public school have to be in-person or can it be online?

I am not a legal expert but I would guess warehousing all the ESL students into virtual school is a no-no.

What about converting an entire public school to online only?

I doubt it considering the amount of learning loss that occurred during COVID virtual school.

Why should ESOL kids have to go to “school” “online”?

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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.

This is the most reasonable response on here.

Worry about your own kids. End of story.

Eh people's parenting decisions do affect others as discussed on this thread. However, I agree it's unreasonable to expect parents to send their children to a school they don't want to send them to, purely for the good of society. Public school systems should work make the schools good so parents want to send their kids there and, to that end, local governments should support these efforts by integrating multifamily housing across the jurisdiction instead of concentrating it in certain areas. Instead the MCPS culture is "you take what you get and you don't get upset", and if people say they are leaving the school system people say "Good riddance!".

I totally agree with you. The schools are a product of (racist) housing policy. For very poor performing schools, it won’t make a bit of difference of a few UMC kids are there. This is an issue that the government has to solve, not individual homeowners.

How can the government solve problems like 40% of a class not speaking English? What do you propose to make that type of environment acceptable for a typical American parent?

Whoosh

Maybe that isn’t a problem for the public schools. Online ESL training.

You'll have to hope SCOTUS overturns Lau v. Nichols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_v._Nichols

Serious question - does public school have to be in-person or can it be online?

I am not a legal expert but I would guess warehousing all the ESL students into virtual school is a no-no.

What about converting an entire public school to online only?

That would be a disaster.

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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.

This is the most reasonable response on here.

Worry about your own kids. End of story.

Eh people's parenting decisions do affect others as discussed on this thread. However, I agree it's unreasonable to expect parents to send their children to a school they don't want to send them to, purely for the good of society. Public school systems should work make the schools good so parents want to send their kids there and, to that end, local governments should support these efforts by integrating multifamily housing across the jurisdiction instead of concentrating it in certain areas. Instead the MCPS culture is "you take what you get and you don't get upset", and if people say they are leaving the school system people say "Good riddance!".

I totally agree with you. The schools are a product of (racist) housing policy. For very poor performing schools, it won’t make a bit of difference of a few UMC kids are there. This is an issue that the government has to solve, not individual homeowners.

How can the government solve problems like 40% of a class not speaking English? What do you propose to make that type of environment acceptable for a typical American parent?

Whoosh

Maybe that isn’t a problem for the public schools. Online ESL training.

You'll have to hope SCOTUS overturns Lau v. Nichols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_v._Nichols

Serious question - does public school have to be in-person or can it be online?

I am not a legal expert but I would guess warehousing all the ESL students into virtual school is a no-no.

What about converting an entire public school to online only?

Do you have amnesia?

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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.

This is the most reasonable response on here.

Worry about your own kids. End of story.

Eh people's parenting decisions do affect others as discussed on this thread. However, I agree it's unreasonable to expect parents to send their children to a school they don't want to send them to, purely for the good of society. Public school systems should work make the schools good so parents want to send their kids there and, to that end, local governments should support these efforts by integrating multifamily housing across the jurisdiction instead of concentrating it in certain areas. Instead the MCPS culture is "you take what you get and you don't get upset", and if people say they are leaving the school system people say "Good riddance!".

I totally agree with you. The schools are a product of (racist) housing policy. For very poor performing schools, it won’t make a bit of difference of a few UMC kids are there. This is an issue that the government has to solve, not individual homeowners.

How can the government solve problems like 40% of a class not speaking English? What do you propose to make that type of environment acceptable for a typical American parent?

Whoosh

Maybe that isn’t a problem for the public schools. Online ESL training.

You'll have to hope SCOTUS overturns Lau v. Nichols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_v._Nichols

Serious question - does public school have to be in-person or can it be online?

I am not a legal expert but I would guess warehousing all the ESL students into virtual school is a no-no.

What about converting an entire public school to online only?

You’re right, only the rich deserve in-person school. The poors can do their modules after work.

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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.

This is the most reasonable response on here.

Worry about your own kids. End of story.

Eh people's parenting decisions do affect others as discussed on this thread. However, I agree it's unreasonable to expect parents to send their children to a school they don't want to send them to, purely for the good of society. Public school systems should work make the schools good so parents want to send their kids there and, to that end, local governments should support these efforts by integrating multifamily housing across the jurisdiction instead of concentrating it in certain areas. Instead the MCPS culture is "you take what you get and you don't get upset", and if people say they are leaving the school system people say "Good riddance!".

I totally agree with you. The schools are a product of (racist) housing policy. For very poor performing schools, it won’t make a bit of difference of a few UMC kids are there. This is an issue that the government has to solve, not individual homeowners.

How can the government solve problems like 40% of a class not speaking English? What do you propose to make that type of environment acceptable for a typical American parent?

Whoosh

Maybe that isn’t a problem for the public schools. Online ESL training.

You'll have to hope SCOTUS overturns Lau v. Nichols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_v._Nichols

Serious question - does public school have to be in-person or can it be online?

I am not a legal expert but I would guess warehousing all the ESL students into virtual school is a no-no.

What about converting an entire public school to online only?

So you want abolish public education?

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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.

This is the most reasonable response on here.

Worry about your own kids. End of story.

Eh people's parenting decisions do affect others as discussed on this thread. However, I agree it's unreasonable to expect parents to send their children to a school they don't want to send them to, purely for the good of society. Public school systems should work make the schools good so parents want to send their kids there and, to that end, local governments should support these efforts by integrating multifamily housing across the jurisdiction instead of concentrating it in certain areas. Instead the MCPS culture is "you take what you get and you don't get upset", and if people say they are leaving the school system people say "Good riddance!".

I totally agree with you. The schools are a product of (racist) housing policy. For very poor performing schools, it won’t make a bit of difference of a few UMC kids are there. This is an issue that the government has to solve, not individual homeowners.

How can the government solve problems like 40% of a class not speaking English? What do you propose to make that type of environment acceptable for a typical American parent?

Whoosh

Maybe that isn’t a problem for the public schools. Online ESL training.

You'll have to hope SCOTUS overturns Lau v. Nichols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_v._Nichols

Serious question - does public school have to be in-person or can it be online?

I am not a legal expert but I would guess warehousing all the ESL students into virtual school is a no-no.

What about converting an entire public school to online only?

That would be a disaster.

This seems like the future to me.

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When did TKPK count as good schools without the caveat of “for silver spring”? That is why the few people with real money who are attracted to being the biggest house in an area type send their kids away from their neighbors in mixed areas like 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.

This is the most reasonable response on here.

Worry about your own kids. End of story.

Eh people's parenting decisions do affect others as discussed on this thread. However, I agree it's unreasonable to expect parents to send their children to a school they don't want to send them to, purely for the good of society. Public school systems should work make the schools good so parents want to send their kids there and, to that end, local governments should support these efforts by integrating multifamily housing across the jurisdiction instead of concentrating it in certain areas. Instead the MCPS culture is "you take what you get and you don't get upset", and if people say they are leaving the school system people say "Good riddance!".

I totally agree with you. The schools are a product of (racist) housing policy. For very poor performing schools, it won’t make a bit of difference of a few UMC kids are there. This is an issue that the government has to solve, not individual homeowners.

How can the government solve problems like 40% of a class not speaking English? What do you propose to make that type of environment acceptable for a typical American parent?

Whoosh

Maybe that isn’t a problem for the public schools. Online ESL training.

You'll have to hope SCOTUS overturns Lau v. Nichols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_v._Nichols

Serious question - does public school have to be in-person or can it be online?

I am not a legal expert but I would guess warehousing all the ESL students into virtual school is a no-no.

What about converting an entire public school to online only?

That would be a disaster.

This seems like the future to me.

COVID online learning was a disaster, so I don’t think it will ever be tried again.

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Very entitled of you, OP. It’s a shame you’re so nasty.

Donald Trump? Is that you?
Nasty women talk and all?

Dp. Donald Trump doesn't post about the common folk

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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.

Translation: We are strivers who worked our butts off and clawed our way into what we thought was a premier neighborhood. We envisioned we and our children would make fast friends with upper middle class and rich new neighbors, parents and classmates. Read social climb. We quickly discovered we are actually on a lower rung and nobody with deep pockets sends their kid to what we thought were excellent public schools — and thus, they don’t socialize with us or our kids.

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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.

Translation: We are strivers who worked our butts off and clawed our way into what we thought was a premier neighborhood. We envisioned we and our children would make fast friends with upper middle class and rich new neighbors, parents and classmates. Read social climb. We quickly discovered we are actually on a lower rung and nobody with deep pockets sends their kid to what we thought were excellent public schools — and thus, they don’t socialize with us or our kids.

DP I think the biggest problem with OP's post is that she is suggesting that Takoma Park and Silver Spring below the beltway are affordable to middle class families, when they are decidedly not and haven't been for some time. I think OP should reflect on what the term "middle class" means when you are really talking about families that make at least twice, and more likely three times the area median income.