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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m just about done with people claiming they want more for their tax money. At most you pay $15k for your property taxes. Find a top public school for your multiple children on the portion of that given to APS. You get a pretty good value for your money actually.[/quote]

Public institutions are not fee for service. That isn't the model of a government school. Some highly taxed people don't send their kids there. Some no-taxed people send many kids there. Taxes are levied to support a functional school system for the good of the public, not as a service for parents. I think people are questioning whether APS is delivering a good public school system. I am questioning that. When people claim I can't complain because of the amount of my property taxes, that makes me think they don't understand what a public good is. It also makes me wonder whether they're APS teachers or staff who think they're above reproach.[/quote]

It also makes me wonder why there is such complacency.  I tend to think that has something to do with the general  psychological makeup of wealthy parents.[/quote]

I used to be fine with APS because I thought that as long as my kids were having a good experience at school, I was happy with it, and I have a high HHI and lots of degrees so my kids will eventually wind up fine.

But then I heard what was going on in class and was soooo disappointed with the curriculum. I think the kids should have gone back to school earlier but that wasn’t even my main issue because it was a difficult call to make. But I felt like my kid just wasn’t  learning anything from school. Math was okay because DS had a good math teacher but I just cannot stand the idea that my child is spending 7 hours in school learning stuff like captions, and then being expected to write a book (A LITERAL BOOK WITH CHAPTERS AND A TABLE OF CONTENTS AND EVERYTHING) when he had never learned to write a good paragraph. Plus there was no feedback on any of the writing he worked so hard on. I knew that they didn’t learn much science or social studies but I just found the hours and hours of reading and math instruction depressing.

Now I get that both things are true: my kid will do fine in life no matter what, and APS curriculum sucks and should be changed. [/quote]

Why are you so convinced that your “kid will do fine in life no matter what ....”?  I hear that a lot in Arlington.  What is it?  Delusional thinking? Privilege?  Entitlement?  The notion that a certain HHI guarantees one a place on top of the hierarchy in the future?  All of those things strike me as out of step with equity.[/quote]

The fact that the HHI and income level of parents is highly correlated with how well their children do in life is inequitable, of course, but it is reality. While causation hasn’t been established, there are hundreds of studies that demonstrate the correlation. Just google it.

And I don’t mean to say that my kid will do fine literally no matter what; of course if I abuse him or something he will not. But the particulars of his elementary education (homeschool, private school, public school—regardless of the curriculum), will not have a major impact on his long-term success. 
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Ooh.  This will be interesting.  Two bitter souls united in their disdain and criticism of their child’s teachers, the curriculum, and all of APS.  However, one brings *parenting* into it.  Her kid will be fine, because she’s rich and educated. Getting my popcorn… [/quote]

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