Middle middle class & lower middle class: What Middle Schools do we end up in?
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Anonymous
Lol, we are expecting. We do have a medium dog though 
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Anonymous
| If you're considering HU Math and Science you must be AA or AW (adventurous white) who's willing to be the first and only. |
Anonymous
What's your point? |
Anonymous
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We moved to VA when it was cheaper (we have older kids now). We live in what we used to call the "brown bag" section of McLean, but that seems to apply only to those who came before the last big run up.
Our HHI is $150-$180k. |
Anonymous
I believe her/his point is that no way would s/he ever do this themself. Basically it's the view of the blogger discussed in the Washington Post thread about the lotteries. Me, I've been a first and only, and even though there were rough spots, I wouldn't trade it for anything. That said, I don't even know if it's true that HU Math and Science is all AA. A lot of people on DCUM post out of their armpits, and are wrong about several things. I don't know this school myself, so don't know if this poster is correct or incorrect on that detail. |
Anonymous
never caught that - link? |
Anonymous
My mistake, it was City Paper, not Wash Post: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/44016/preschool-daze-dear-daughter-one-day-youll-understand-why-educating/ The thread on it is still quite active in this forum. |
Anonymous
She could be AA and trying to be smug. That being said it is true that if it were not an outgrowth of an HBCU, DCUMers would be banging down its doors. |
Anonymous
Sad, because that HBCU is a great school. |
Anonymous
I'm the poster of that long thread. I'm thrilled that other people are finding this in DC. The OP asked about people's individual experiences. I can only offer my own. I love DC, and was sad to realize that moving was the right choice for us, so I'd be glad to know that our experiences weren't universal. |
Anonymous
| I have to say that I think the good education for our dcs at a JKLM ended in the middle of 3rd grade if not earlier - I agree with the poster who said she was told her kid was doing great but then found out that s/he was not prepared for the rigor of another school - in MOCO or anywhere |
Anonymous
1) the total annual school costs are about $31,000 per year. It's tuition, a few fees that cover athletics, field trips, etc., and bus transportation. 2) our mortgage is $1500 per month. Yes, we bought in DC when there was a crack house a couple of houses over. Now that house would sell for $500k. How we afford it is this -- no standing bills that are high, like a car payment. We take in about $8500 or so in a regular month, post taxes. Each month about $3000 gets zapped out of our bank account to go to the school, 10 months a year. So in a regular month, you have to live on $5500 a month or use savings. We can't quite do that, so we go into savings a bit on those months. But several months a year you get an extra pay check (26 pay periods in a year). So in those two months you can make it. If you get a tax return, then that's how the extra is covered that month. A bonus at work = that's how you cover it. In the end we made it work for the most part. My parents gave us some money which helped a couple of months. If it gets tight I'll borrow using the HELOC -- pretty low interest rate. You have to really watch every penny that you have coming in, scrub your budget for things you can cut. I put everything on mint -- you can see how your money is spent. We wasted a lot of money in years before, just stupid stuff that we should have known better. Mint helps point that out. You see everything, you see patterns, you see places where it makes sense to cut. Get your bills as low as possible and put any extra into a rainy day fund. That's how we are doing it. |
Anonymous
Right, right, right. Forgot black people don't count. |
Anonymous
| HHI 90k (single parent), Ward 2, 1 kid headed to BASIS for MS. |
Anonymous
Wow. Is ignorant your middle name? |