Why are the East County schools the way they are?
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Anonymous
Ah. I'll make sure not to tell you about my neighborhood then. It's a good thing you don't want to move here. Real estate turnover is staggeringly low and the value of our house has increased massively over the last decade. We bought here specifically to shorten our commutes to work in DC. |
Anonymous
| The whole county has become a dump. East side and west side. |
Anonymous
Same. My fathers family was pretty poor — he never went hungry but he never had toys or any type of extras and worked 100% of the time he hasn’t in school starting when he was less than 10. He started a business at 12 that paid for his college tuition and lived in a spare room a relative had. He read every single book his crappy rural school had. There are still plenty of poor kids that realize education is the way out and bust their butts trying to get an education. It’s sad for them that they have to put up with schools that are in such crisis because their fellow students don’t care. But at the same time I also realize that a lot of this comes from the parents. My dad had loving parents and his father at least understood education was the way out. Kids who don’t have that, and are dealing with traumatic home circumstances in addition to poverty, may not be able to make that step. I don’t think the schools are really capable of solving that problem, at least not on a large scale. I think it’s unfair we expect schools to fix those issues …. But I also don’t know what the solution is. |
Anonymous
+1 We don’t deserve you here in the slums of Silver Spring. |