School is not giving what was expected

[Anonymous]

If you moved to one of those neighborhoods where house prices range from 1-3M and the school is well regarded academically but after some time you realize the school is not giving what you expected for your child and you see you are not thee we only parent in disappointment, what do you do?

[Anonymous]

what were you expecting?

[Anonymous]

How is the school not meeting expectations?

No school is perfect. Education begins at home. If there are special needs, go through the proper channels.
Essentially the three things posters should reflect on before starting threads.

[Anonymous]

Sell my house and go private. You have $$. Seems like not a real problem.

[Anonymous]

You look at private schools. Home price is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sell my house and go private. You have $$. Seems like not a real problem.

+ 1000 Sell the big house and spend the money on your kids.

But, I do have sympathy for the fact that many parents reasonably thought good public schools meant, well, that they were actually good schools, and not that they were simply buying into a pyramid where parents can afford tutors / mathnesium / to spend an hour or more a day on learning to read at home.

[Anonymous]

We are going private for HS. Keeping the house but we also bought for location/walkability/amenities/few blocks to Metro.

If the house was not close-in and solely for schools, I would have sold.

[Anonymous]

There is no special needs here. In proportion to the very elevated taxes we pay in this neighborhood, the quality of education is mediocre plus. 2 out of 4 teachers do the bare minimum.

[Anonymous]

TBH this is why I couldn't buy in an area where I hadn't rented first. You just don't know what the reality is going to be.

For me it would depend on how bad it is. If my kid was miserable, I would change schools. If not, I would wait it out, maybe get a tutor.

[Anonymous]

If you aren't happy, there's not a lot that can be done beyond escalating to the administration with specific problems where the school is failing your child and seeing what/if anything can be done. Moving teachers is almost unheard of except in extreme situations. In our case we pulled ours after 3rd grade and enrolled in private. We learned just how badly public failed our child after 2 months in private. Child is now thriving after nearly 2 years and on par with classmates. Have never looked back.

[Anonymous]

Hard to know if you don’t give specifics. Some things are different in different school systems and some aren’t. Some are very school specific.

We’re pleasantly surprised by how great our public school has been but I’m not in a 1m to 3m neighborhood. I’m in a 750k to 1.2neighborhood, which is still quite rich by any standard.

[Anonymous]

Sorry that your free government school didn’t meet expectations.

[Anonymous]

What does "the bare minimum" look like, OP? If there are legitimate concerns that students are being neglected, not taught the standards, mistreated, etc--PLEASE reach out to admin.

If you are just frustrated that your child isn't being accelerated as much as you'd like, or that there are worksheets vs. critical thinking projects, then...well, it's public school. The role of public school is to educate the masses with a baseline level of knowledge--no matter how rich the population that they serve.

[Anonymous]

Cheer up OP. You could be paying for a disappointing education! I know people in that situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no special needs here. In proportion to the very elevated taxes we pay in this neighborhood, the quality of education is mediocre plus. 2 out of 4 teachers do the bare minimum.

Lol. You thought the quality of the free public education would be drastically different in your neighborhood because the houses cost more?