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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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?[/quote]

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.   [/quote]

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