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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Join me if you are struggling with this. Due to a variety of factors, my husband and I are doing much better than my parents did at our ages, but my children will never get the experiences in school that I got. Our schools are much more crowded, offer fewer high quality clubs and activities, and make it much more difficult to access advanced curriculum. Should I find a way not to care, or should I take extraordinary steps to change our situation? What have you done? It hurts me knowing what a great education I got, and not giving something similar to them. Yet it seems that the world has changed so thoroughly that my 1980s education (mid size town, not high cost of living, excellent public schools, [b]well funded[/b]) doesn't exist anymore.[/quote]

Being a "well funded" school district depends on your tax payer base.

These articles were written in 1999 and 2004 over the state of disrepair in DC public schools:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57498-2004Nov17.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/02/26/schools-target-bathroom-repairs/69981b88-2d1e-4829-ae99-c13f08b6fe08/?utm_term=.e2f5f03bfcb6

However mediocre you consider your kid's current school, I'm sure you wouldn't change places for a kid in Anacostia.[/quote]

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