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Anonymous wrote:I live in Anne Arundel county and you all can stay out as far as I’m concerned. Go ruin Utah or something.

Which town?

Davidsonville but you can stay out of all of all of them.

I personally think the solution is vouchers. Give me back my tax payer dollars or the amount you would have spent on my kid and let me choose a school instead.

Between kids not even going to school, too much testing and teaching to the lowest common denominator in every class- my kids aren't getting a good education.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a small Southern town. Today, my HS is 75% FARMs. My HS offered 2 AP classes: Lit and Calc AB. My year, I was the only student to pass either one. By senior year, I was driving to the community college for classes because my HS was out— 45 minutes each way during the school day.

More kids enlisted than went to a 4 year college, and no one in my graduating class left the state for college. The level of instruction was very, very poor.

DH had the same experience at a different HS in a different small town.

Why in the world would we want our kids in one if these environments.

Omg, are you me? I’m from Florida for what it’s worth. Though my CC was closer (but we did have kids driving from further schools)

I think CC is great for students. Sounds like a great solution if schools can't offer particular languages or AP courses. I went to one in high school and loved it.

Anonymous wrote:Big cities are full of other problems too.
Small towns aren’t a panacea but there’s no good stuff in big cities if you have kids.

??? We love museums, great libraries, lots of organizations and cultural events...cities are a great place to grow up and raise kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a small Southern town. Today, my HS is 75% FARMs. My HS offered 2 AP classes: Lit and Calc AB. My year, I was the only student to pass either one. By senior year, I was driving to the community college for classes because my HS was out— 45 minutes each way during the school day.

More kids enlisted than went to a 4 year college, and no one in my graduating class left the state for college. The level of instruction was very, very poor.

DH had the same experience at a different HS in a different small town.

Why in the world would we want our kids in one if these environments.

Omg, are you me? I’m from Florida for what it’s worth. Though my CC was closer (but we did have kids driving from further schools)

Lesson is there are no such animals as unicorns.

I’m the first poster. Plus, the small town was insular, easiest and homophobic AF, made most decisions based on a Southern Baptist interpretation of the Bible, had no restraints with “fur-in” (foreign) foods and no culture whatsoever. And somehow managed to go even further downhill as manufacturing was off-shored.

Really— not the utopia you think it is, unless you are mediocre white male with a degree from a third tier medical, dental or law school and can be king of the hill. Or are married to such a man and willing to be ruled by his whims in all things in return for a little bit of social cachet.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a small Southern town. Today, my HS is 75% FARMs. My HS offered 2 AP classes: Lit and Calc AB. My year, I was the only student to pass either one. By senior year, I was driving to the community college for classes because my HS was out— 45 minutes each way during the school day.

More kids enlisted than went to a 4 year college, and no one in my graduating class left the state for college. The level of instruction was very, very poor.

DH had the same experience at a different HS in a different small town.

Why in the world would we want our kids in one if these environments.

Omg, are you me? I’m from Florida for what it’s worth. Though my CC was closer (but we did have kids driving from further schools)

Lesson is there are no such animals as unicorns.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a small Southern town. Today, my HS is 75% FARMs. My HS offered 2 AP classes: Lit and Calc AB. My year, I was the only student to pass either one. By senior year, I was driving to the community college for classes because my HS was out— 45 minutes each way during the school day.

More kids enlisted than went to a 4 year college, and no one in my graduating class left the state for college. The level of instruction was very, very poor.

DH had the same experience at a different HS in a different small town.

Why in the world would we want our kids in one if these environments.

We had 1 AP, taught very poorly. No one taught for the years I was there ever got above a 3.

I grew up in a rural town in the northeast with a very similar experience. The community College was only 20 min away but the high school classes were more advanced (which is saying something). There was an article about NYC residents moving to small towns upstate. Almost all liberal and progressive and were sending their kids to private schools.

Maryland is a whole state of whiners. I am from Texas and nobody ever made all this ruckus there. People here whine about nothing too. Teachers make a max of 48k in Texas, have no rights, cover recess, lunch and dropoff/pickup and it is a right to fire state so you can be let go off for no reason. Send these whiny teachers down to Texas and we will fix 'em.

Anonymous wrote:Live in Frederick. You will not solve this issue by moving. Same problems, less resources to deal with them. The issue is the pandemic- not politics, not the location, not the schools. If you want your kids back in school, end the pandemic.

The pandemic persists now because people can’t let it go even with vaccines therapies and the evolution of the virus to a much milder strain.

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a small Southern town. Today, my HS is 75% FARMs. My HS offered 2 AP classes: Lit and Calc AB. My year, I was the only student to pass either one. By senior year, I was driving to the community college for classes because my HS was out— 45 minutes each way during the school day.

More kids enlisted than went to a 4 year college, and no one in my graduating class left the state for college. The level of instruction was very, very poor.

DH had the same experience at a different HS in a different small town.

Why in the world would we want our kids in one if these environments.

We had 1 AP, taught very poorly. No one taught for the years I was there ever got above a 3.

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a small Southern town. Today, my HS is 75% FARMs. My HS offered 2 AP classes: Lit and Calc AB. My year, I was the only student to pass either one. By senior year, I was driving to the community college for classes because my HS was out— 45 minutes each way during the school day.

More kids enlisted than went to a 4 year college, and no one in my graduating class left the state for college. The level of instruction was very, very poor.

DH had the same experience at a different HS in a different small town.

Why in the world would we want our kids in one if these environments.

Omg, are you me? I’m from Florida for what it’s worth. Though my CC was closer (but we did have kids driving from further schools)

I would rather lose a limb than move to a town with “conservative politics”, full of wannabe insurrectionists, Qanon supporters, and Covid deniers… imagine exposing my kids to the kids of those people. Omg.

Big cities are full of other problems too.
Small towns aren’t a panacea but there’s no good stuff in big cities if you have kids.

Anonymous wrote:Misleading thread title. This is only happening in Chicago, and it's because Mayor Lightfoot is truly, truly terrible.

No it’s not! Oakland CA or SF are some other examples.

Anonymous wrote:I live in Anne Arundel county and you all can stay out as far as I’m concerned. Go ruin Utah or something.

Agree. It is concerning if liberals spread high taxes, closed schools, and incompetent government to small towns.