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I am the "dillweed" poster, and I am not an L-T parent. I am tired of the complaining by in-boundary families that they are "stuck" with a school where they KNOWINGLY purchased a house. They are extremely foolish for paying NW prices where they are not getting a NW school, and they have nobody to blame but themselves. They are hampering L-T's growth by insisting on poisoning the well. The L-T parents I know are very frank about their experiences, but they do feel defensive about the barrage of criticism by non-parents - being called hippies, being told that their kids are "experiments," etc. There is an active contingent of parents who are lobbying for proximity preference for Logan and SWS, and they know that any success stories coming out of L-T are going to hurt their chances of arguing their case. [/quote]

Dillweed, the chances of you not being a part of the LT community are slim if not impossible. If you were not an LT parent, Why would you even care?

Secondly, you must have a magic ball that the rest of us could borrow, or at least rent. When we bought our house, we were in bounds for LOVEJOY, at least according to our real estate agent. We then assumed we were in bounds for Maury after it was announced Lovejoy was going to become condos. Looking back, I laugh at the fact we didn't research it more, bc to be hnest i am not sure lovejoy was even a functioning school at that point, but in any case, children were so far from our minds we didn't
really think about it twice. We assumed we would stay on the hill for the first child and move by the time school or the next baby hit. It was also pre-recession and i was personally making almost three times what i am now. But then the recession hit, i lost my job, and we did consider moving. but our house would have been undervalued and we knew it. we held on, and then the housing market overheated to the point where we would have to spend 1.5 m to get a house even the slightest bit roomier than our current one. As a couple we have opted to have flexible schedules to be able to spend time with our children, neither of us is killing it salary wise and thus we are not in the 2m upper NW market. So I don't know where you get off lecturing people, as it would have been impossible for us to anticipate the changes that have happened in the school scene, the real estate market, and both of our industries as well as our evolution as a couple.

This forum is full of people making impossible choices and sacrifices regarding education. How about you just live with it the way the rest of us are, and reach out to others in your community with compassion even if their point of view is different. Is that what makes a community? [/quote]

This is right on.

So sick of the why don't you just move/make better choices BS.[/quote]

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