New STA parent seeking advice, suggestions, or just plain "I wish I had known X" info

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a guess 25% of STA is UMC (HHI over $250,000)

HHIs in the 95th percentile are UMC?
https://statisticalatlas.com/metro-area/District-of-Columbia/Washington/Household-Income

What researchers say and how it plays out in real income can be far apart.

Tell a DC family that $100,000 makes them UMC, and they will laugh. UMC means having enough to live in a decent house, afford nice cars, travel, send your kids to college, and save for retirement. In the DC area, the cost of living means you need about $350,000 a year to be UMC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UMC means having enough to live in a decent house, afford nice cars, travel, send your kids to college, and save for retirement.

Your sense of entitlement is breathtaking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMC means having enough to live in a decent house, afford nice cars, travel, send your kids to college, and save for retirement.

Your sense of entitlement is breathtaking.

Oh, IDK. That's what UMC used to mean back in the day.

PP whose breath is taken by this definition must be a millennial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UMC means having enough to live in a decent house, afford nice cars, travel, send your kids to college, and save for retirement.

Your sense of entitlement is breathtaking.

That's what UMC used to mean back in the day.

LOL, no. Anyone who has enough money to check all five of those luxuries off is easily upper-class.

UMC is more like being able to pull of three or four of them. Middle class would be thrilled to have one or two.

You're confusing luxury for necessity -- that's where the entitlement lies.

[Anonymous]

Incoming US family with a couple questions.

What other options are there besides a major sport? What exactly is voyageur or conditioning? I don't see any descriptions on the website. Are there other options? Also, are they 5 days a week for 2 hours or does it require less time?

Is there flex time in the day for studying and getting work done?

How do the boys manage their study schedule if they don't get home before 6:30 or so and do many boys have outside of school activities and sports and if so, how do they manage that?

What is the earliest you can drop off your child? ie I need to be at work on the early side. If they are early, can they participate in breakfast?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as we are nervous with the change!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Incoming US family with a couple questions.

What other options are there besides a major sport? What exactly is voyageur or conditioning? I don't see any descriptions on the website. Are there other options? Also, are they 5 days a week for 2 hours or does it require less time?

Is there flex time in the day for studying and getting work done?

How do the boys manage their study schedule if they don't get home before 6:30 or so and do many boys have outside of school activities and sports and if so, how do they manage that?

What is the earliest you can drop off your child? ie I need to be at work on the early side. If they are early, can they participate in breakfast?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as we are nervous with the change!

This is a 64-page thread started 15 YEARS AGO, and people are likely to not realize it’s an old thread that has been bumped and start responding to the OP and other earlier posts without seeing your new questions. You might do better to start a new thread.

(Voyageur is outdoor adventuring activities like rock climbing, canoeing/kayaking, etc)

[Anonymous]

Your son can go at 7am and have a hot breakfast (there's a fee for this). My son goes every day like clockwork and gets there around 7:30.

The boys figure out the sports/homework balance. They get out of school daily at 5:45pm. They learn to do what they can on the weekends or during flex period or on the weeks between sports seasons. It seems to work out with occasional very late nights.

Those who play an intense club sport outside of school generally don't do a school sport those seasons. By high school no one is doing a club sport in anything other than their main sport and really not even in this sport unless they are heading towards recruitment. School sports take the place of club sports for everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Incoming US family with a couple questions.

What other options are there besides a major sport? What exactly is voyageur or conditioning? I don't see any descriptions on the website. Are there other options? Also, are they 5 days a week for 2 hours or does it require less time?

Is there flex time in the day for studying and getting work done?

How do the boys manage their study schedule if they don't get home before 6:30 or so and do many boys have outside of school activities and sports and if so, how do they manage that?

What is the earliest you can drop off your child? ie I need to be at work on the early side. If they are early, can they participate in breakfast?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as we are nervous with the change!

They used to have a buddy family system for new parents. Did they get rid of that?