Post by imhischeeseburger on Aug 16, 2013 19:42:13 GMT -5
Because it sucks here. I live on base and I feel like the schools here are just not organized or prepared at all. Unfortunately the schools out in town are even worse. First to cut back on school spending they decided to make the elementary schools here K-8 instead of K-5. Saying the older kids will be role models to the younger kids. Then they cut Kindergarten to half days only, which makes no sense. The school rating is at an all time low and the students are testing poorly. Amelia is going into their new "Transitional Kinder" program which is either AM or PM class. But they won't let the parents know which class they are in until orientation, which is 1 day before school starts. I'm sorry don't they realize that parents have to work. We are definitely thinking about moving and buying a house a little bit north in a different school district. Hopefully this year won't be total chaos.
SS goes to a k-8 school. We've had no problems whatsoever. They have older buddies from the middle school that come to their classes and do activities with them. Really, it's not a big deal. Your kid will stay in the same place up through 8th grade with many of the same kids as they went to kindergarten with, without even changing buildings.
What makes the rating low? Are there special education students that attend your school? I'm going to assume so, and therefore could lower the rating making it look "bad".
What did you think when you toured the school for kindergarten? Was your impression different than what you see on paper?
Yes. The town I live in isn't the best, but it's not even remotely bad. I have other preferences for school districts, but by the time that matters we likely won't be living in our current town anyway.
SS goes to a k-8 school. We've had no problems whatsoever. They have older buddies from the middle school that come to their classes and do activities with them. Really, it's not a big deal. Your kid will stay in the same place up through 8th grade with many of the same kids as they went to kindergarten with, without even changing buildings.
Maybe because were military but we usually don't stay in the same area for very long. So I don't really see this as a positive since we probably won't be here long enough.
I went to a K-8. It was (is) a good school. I can't think of any issues that arose due to age differences.
I can't speak to the district I live in now. I honestly don't even understand exactly how the system works here. I just know that it is confusing and I am glad I don't have to worry about it.
We paid way too much money for a smaller house on a smaller piece of property to be in a town with a great school system. Our property taxes are outrageous but so worth it.
Ds was in full day kindergarten last year and we were so impressed with how the school was run, how completely engaged everyone on the staff was, and what a great sense of community there was.
We are not far from Newtown, CT. Our principal send daily emails updating us on how they were handling security and how they were dealing with the kids at all grade levels.
We could move a few towns over and get three times the house and much lower taxes but now that we have experience with the schools, we won't be leaving anytime soon.
We have decent schools here and the one we are zoned for is good.
Is the school actually on base?
Yes I live on base housing. She's actually supposed to be attending Pre-K (her birthday is in November so she missed the cut off date for Kinder.) But they have a new program called Transitional Kinder which is for kids that fall between the cut off date till December for that school year. Only one of the schools on base offer that program so she has to go to that school. On the bright side that school is actually the best one from the 3 that are close to us. We are zoned for another school, but that school doesn't have the program she needs. I figure we will move next year when my husband comes back from deployment so she can go to Kindergarten in a good school district.
There are a ton of districts in the Denver area. Some are great, some are horrible. We're lucky to live in one of the smaller ones and it has an excellent reputation. Most of the families in our area use the pubic school system and we absolutely love our school. Our kindergartens are mostly half day but you can pay monthly tuition for full day. We did that for DS because of our schedules. In the lower performing schools in the metro area kindy is funded for full day.
If parents knew half their rights and things their children are entitled to, TONS of schools would be getting sued. It's insane. And I know too much about how it's run to ever send my kid to one.
But we were fortunate to move to an area that has more than one very good district, so we had lots of choices. I grew up in a rural area where there was little choice: we feel pretty spoiled here.
If parents knew half their rights and things their children are entitled to, TONS of schools would be getting sued. It's insane. And I know too much about how it's run to ever send my kid to one.
If parents knew half their rights and things their children are entitled to, TONS of schools would be getting sued. It's insane. And I know too much about how it's run to ever send my kid to one.
I could have written this.
For fucking real, Meg.
It makes me so sad, because I love Philly. But we have 3 years to get out before sending Ollie to kindergarten. : (
What makes the rating low? Are there special education students that attend your school? I'm going to assume so, and therefore could lower the rating making it look "bad".
What did you think when you toured the school for kindergarten? Was your impression different than what you see on paper?
Seriously? Aren't there special education students in virtually all public schools?
You're going to "assume" the special ed kids are lowering the rating for an entire school system? What an assinine comment.