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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like you are in PA, and I say this as a former peninsula resident.

We left and moved to a small university town and are all so much happier.  The DMV seems so provincial when I read these boards.  So many people are so narrow-minded but maybe that is part of being on a board where people can be anonymous. I remember all the drama and racism in PA about creating a Mandarin immersion track so it probably happens everywhere to a degree.  PA was unique in the suicide problem though. Similar districts nearby did not have any during the same time periods and the district took for freaking ever to take responsibility for the stress on the kids or the railroad tracks. Even now teachers don't have to follow the rules about giving homework during finals exam week.

If you can go anywhere, what about San Diego? Or Lake Tahoe? Or Portland?  [/quote]

OP. Thinking back, the suicides must have really colored my impression of the district. It still haunts me to see suicide preveention pamphlets on the train. You are right that other districts seem to handle things better. Palo Alto so highly regarded… is this kind  of thing lurking in every top-rated district? I had not considered Lake Tahoe. All three of those would be beautiful. I really, need to find a better way to evaluate schools that captures liveability and sanity, not just test scores. Congrats on finding your new home.[/quote]

The suicides really bothered us too.

It is very difficult to compare schools across states. And there is no even playing field. There is on going math tutoring starting in elementary to put kids in the top math track and keep them ahead, there is $test prep and $private college counselors. When you see great school stats, you are mostly seeing an indicator of parental wealth. And PA has the most of that with very wealthy families with kids in public schools.

One of my children had a student teacher who had grown up in PA and was at Stanford, and she told me so much about what had happened during the suicide crisis years. The other districts like Los Gatos,Los Altos, etc didn't have suicides but they are still very high pressure districts.

This is really why people pay for the $$$ private schools in the area. They want the opportunities and choice of classes but without the other stuff.[/quote]

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