Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?

[Anonymous]

Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?
I often see people on DCUM trashing certain school systems or school clusters. Just wondering if income and neighborhood matter when it comes to how happy people are with the school and their child's education.

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?
What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
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?
If you could change schools, where would you go and why?

[Anonymous]

What is your household income?
$450k

How much are you paying for housing?
$600k house, own outright.

Where do you live?
Crofton

What do you and your partner do for a living?
Engineers + private investments (always lived frugally, saved at least half, etc.)

What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
Crofton Elementary / Anne Arundel

Are you happy with the school and education?
Yes

If not, why not private school (or vice versa, why not public)?
Private is a waste of money.

What are your school's pros and cons?
Pros for any school boil down to not having too many kids from disadvantaged homes who overburden the school's resources and disrupt learning.

If you could change schools, where would you go and why?
We could change schools. We like where we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?
I often see people on DCUM trashing certain school systems or school clusters. Just wondering if income and neighborhood matter when it comes to how happy people are with the school and their child's education.

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?
What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
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?
If you could change schools, where would you go and why?

TBH, I am not going to answer 20 questions. LOL. I think that human nature causes people to defend their own choices. A lot of people paid a premium to be in certain clusters based on the "ratings" of those schools. So of course, those people are going to believe that those schools offer something that you cannot get in other schools in the county. We have an HHI that would have allowed us to live in one of the coveted clusters. We actually chose to buy a bigger house in the cluster we were in. I defend that choice by saying, in retrospect, my kids were able to get into and attend the same colleges that the other kids did - and its true. So I would say that I did not need to spend the extra money to move because my kids got the same opportunities at the end of the day. Once again, defense of choice. That is what it is all about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?
I often see people on DCUM trashing certain school systems or school clusters. Just wondering if income and neighborhood matter when it comes to how happy people are with the school and their child's education.

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?
What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
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?
If you could change schools, where would you go and why?

This is too identifying to put everything in

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?
$300HHI $750k House, Rockville

What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
Richard Montgomery

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?
Very happy with full cluster. Private is not well regulated and does not promote public good.

If you could change schools, where would you go and why?
No

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?
I often see people on DCUM trashing certain school systems or school clusters. Just wondering if income and neighborhood matter when it comes to how happy people are with the school and their child's education.

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?
What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
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?
If you could change schools, where would you go and why?

$200K HH, Rockville $650K
Robert Frost. Absolute waste of time. Child is not challenged at all.
Not happy. Would go to private in heart bit, but cannot afford good one and will not consider religious ones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?
I often see people on DCUM trashing certain school systems or school clusters. Just wondering if income and neighborhood matter when it comes to how happy people are with the school and their child's education.

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?
What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
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?
If you could change schools, where would you go and why?

$200K HH, Rockville $650K
Robert Frost. Absolute waste of time. Child is not challenged at all.
Not happy. Would go to private in heart bit, but cannot afford good one and will not consider religious ones.

Then try magnet

[Anonymous]

What is your household income?
$220k

How much are you paying for housing?
$500k house

Where do you live?
Kensington

What do you and your partner do for a living?
Journalist & unemployed

What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
Einstein cluster

Are you happy with the school and education?
Yes

If not, why not private school (or vice versa, why not public)?
N/a, happy with public

What are your school's pros and cons?
DCC consortium choice, great arts programs (music and performing arts), diversity, great teachers!

Love that kids can choose to enroll in challenging courses (IB, AP). In other places we have lived, enrollment in such courses required teacher recommendation.

If you could change schools, where would you go and why?
I wouldn't necessarily change schools, but now that my kids are teenagers they are trapped out here in the unwalkable suburbs. The whole family would prefer to live closer in to DC and near Metro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?
I often see people on DCUM trashing certain school systems or school clusters. Just wondering if income and neighborhood matter when it comes to how happy people are with the school and their child's education.

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?
What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
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?
If you could change schools, where would you go and why?

$200K HH, Rockville $650K
Robert Frost. Absolute waste of time. Child is not challenged at all.
Not happy. Would go to private in heart bit, but cannot afford good one and will not consider religious ones.

Then try magnet

With 100 spots for the half county?
You should be kidding me...
Plus there is huge difference between magnet load, local school load and private school load.
I do not want children neither wasted nor burned, I want them challenged! But I have no choice...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is your household income?
$220k

How much are you paying for housing?
$500k house

Where do you live?
Kensington

What do you and your partner do for a living?
Journalist & unemployed

What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
Einstein cluster

Are you happy with the school and education?
Yes

If not, why not private school (or vice versa, why not public)?
N/a, happy with public

What are your school's pros and cons?
DCC consortium choice, great arts programs (music and performing arts), diversity, great teachers!

Love that kids can choose to enroll in challenging courses (IB, AP). In other places we have lived, enrollment in such courses required teacher recommendation.

If you could change schools, where would you go and why?
I wouldn't necessarily change schools, but now that my kids are teenagers they are trapped out here in the unwalkable suburbs. The whole family would prefer to live closer in to DC and near Metro.

I know this is off-topic , but I'm surprised a journalist's pulling in so much. 220K is a good salary, good for you!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does your socio-economic status inform how you feel about your child's school/education?
I often see people on DCUM trashing certain school systems or school clusters. Just wondering if income and neighborhood matter when it comes to how happy people are with the school and their child's education.

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?
What school/school cluster and in what school system does your child attend?
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?
If you could change schools, where would you go and why?

$200K HH, Rockville $650K
Robert Frost. Absolute waste of time. Child is not challenged at all.
Not happy. Would go to private in heart bit, but cannot afford good one and will not consider religious ones.

Then try magnet

With 100 spots for the half county?
You should be kidding me...
Plus there is huge difference between magnet load, local school load and private school load.
I do not want children neither wasted nor burned, I want them challenged! But I have no choice...

Then homeschool.

And I believe no one on here wants 'children wasted'.

[Anonymous]

I dont know my 'socio-economic status' nor care!

Wtf??

Who here likes declaring their race on every piece of government paperwork??

Im tired of being treated like cattle and branded by race, gender and socio-economic status. My value is to my family, my identity is for me, my societal worth is not for some pseudoscience sociology professor, dimwit politician, nor government bean counter to determine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont know my 'socio-economic status' nor care!

Wtf??

Who here likes declaring their race on every piece of government paperwork??

Im tired of being treated like cattle and branded by race, gender and socio-economic status. My value is to my family, my identity is for me, my societal worth is not for some pseudoscience sociology professor, dimwit politician, nor government bean counter to determine.

Dramatic much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont know my 'socio-economic status' nor care!

Wtf??

Who here likes declaring their race on every piece of government paperwork??

Im tired of being treated like cattle and branded by race, gender and socio-economic status. My value is to my family, my identity is for me, my societal worth is not for some pseudoscience sociology professor, dimwit politician, nor government bean counter to determine.

Dramatic much?

I'm a quick study

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont know my 'socio-economic status' nor care!

Wtf??

Who here likes declaring their race on every piece of government paperwork??

Im tired of being treated like cattle and branded by race, gender and socio-economic status. My value is to my family, my identity is for me, my societal worth is not for some pseudoscience sociology professor, dimwit politician, nor government bean counter to determine.

Nonetheless, we are not isolated atoms floating around in a near-vacuum. We exist in society. And in society, our race, gender, SES, etc. are relevant.

On the other hand, my answer to the OP's question is, "Yes, duh" -- and that's not polite, so maybe I should exit the thread now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I dont know my 'socio-economic status' nor care!

Wtf??

Who here likes declaring their race on every piece of government paperwork??

Im tired of being treated like cattle and branded by race, gender and socio-economic status. My value is to my family, my identity is for me, my societal worth is not for some pseudoscience sociology professor, dimwit politician, nor government bean counter to determine.

Nonetheless, we are not isolated atoms floating around in a near-vacuum. We exist in society. And in society, our race, gender, SES, etc. are relevant.

On the other hand, my answer to the OP's question is, "Yes, duh" -- and that's not polite, so maybe I should exit the thread now.

Such things are only relevant to demogogues and divisive baiters.