Education for our children.....did you choose to live where you do based on GREAT schools.......?

Question

or not? Also.......if your school is not living up to your expectations would you 1)move 2)volunteer 3)supplement at home.

Are you a prominent figure in your child's education......or do you think "ESL classes" or "overcrowded classrooms" are the reason for poor scores and failing grades?

Answer 1

I paid through the nose for a house with a good elementary school, volunteer, pay money to the annual fund, buy magazines, attend LEARN meetings, act as an advocate for my kids, and in this school it works.

Looking ahead beyond elementary school, given the emphasis put on ESL programs for an ever cycling group of new legal and illegal immigrants (although the legal ones tend to stay and get better at English) the choices are limited. I will always be active, but if the classes are overcrowded, the basic education my children get will be reduced. I work, so I need to rely on the school to primarily educate my children. That is what we pay for.

It is a fact that the required progress in 'all demographic groups' means that if one demographic group is one that cycles through such as the ESL population in California schools, it is very hard for it to 'get better' as a group. Since schools lose their funding if all groups don't 'get better' funding is disproportionately spent on ESL students. Other special learning needs like dyslexia and education for the deaf or, heaven forbid, for the highly gifted (who unlike the gifted 'turn off' in school and actually have education problems) are not funded because there is no tracked 'demographic' for those problems. Yet we are the ones paying the true cost of education and subsidizing others for it. For legal immigrants that is one thing, but for illegal immigrants, this really burns me up.

I know you and I don't see eye to eye on this point. However, you phrase your question as if 'blaming ESL classes' was a cop out. It is an analysis of where scarce funds are going. At the same time in Southern California it includes a huge number of children of illegal immigrants, who are not budgeted in our system and by drawing funds and slowing instruction are degrading education for those who have a right to be here.

My kids right now are doing well. However, I had already agonized and decided I would either have to find a way to send them to highschool in a private school, or move out of the state. I think it is unfair that they can't get a good and safe education here, but it is a fact.

Now coming on middle school I am hearing about kids being beaten with chains by mini-gang bangers even in the public middle school with the best magnet program everyone tries to get into. The person weilding the chain (I'm thinking of a specific instance) was not in the magnet program, but was in the PE class with those who were. Now I have no idea what to do about middle school. If I send the kids to middle school in private school, it will come out of any hope of retirement security. I don't think that is fair either.

Answer 2

yes, I did. In grade school my kids attended private school.After that I moved to a location, where the school system was better. I think the reason for failing grades or poor scores, some kids don't understand and are afraid to ask for help or some kids don't apply themselves. You also have some teachers that are only teaching for a pay check and don't care if the kids learn. One thing I did learn, the difference between private school and public school. The private school teachers are paid by the parents and if a kid doesn't learn it's the teachers fault. In public school the teachers are paid by the state and if a kid doesn't learn, so be it, they will be paid regardless.

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Answer 4

My parents didn't. They lived where they did because the house was cheap. But, thanks to being in such a poor neighborhood, I qualified for a scholarship based on the area my high school was in.