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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish we had 10x the amount of magnets as we do here. I'd love language immersion, IB, STEM or really anything other than just regular school.

I think that the absolute worst thing about public schools in this country is that their quality is tied to your house value. Live in a crummy apartment? Here's a bad school for you. Live in a 2m house? Here's a nice school for you. Your kid is being bullied mercilessly at school? Sorry, you have to go to the school you're districted to. Your only other option is the $$$ private schools in this area.[/quote]

It isn’t that the schools are better, but the student body is smarter, better prepared for school, and have less challenges.  Of course the school filled with kids living with grandma, with absent parent/s, parents that do drugs or doing afternoon/evening shift work, no one caring about their homework or studying, on YouTube all day, no one reading to them; these schools are not going to be academic powerhouses.

UMC parents schools are filled with kids who have been in piano since age 4, read to since birth, in preschool since 2-3, have very engaged parents invested in their learning.  So yeah- those schools are better because the parents have been pouring time and energy into their kids academic success since a very early age. [/quote]

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