What is it like being an alumni of a school that’s underfunded or neglected? Even if the school is “good” (as in well funded or private), does the learning environment reflect that? Also, the dark side of American schools (shootings) dampens peace of mind for parents since at any given moment some gun wielding individual can storm in murdering those inside (students, teachers, custodians, etc.)

  • AskewLord@piefed.social
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    Yeah, there is a ‘loop’ in that some people live in cheaper areas, but send their children to private schools.

    But the ‘tax’ on really good pubic schools commands such a premier, that often it is more expensive to send your kids to a really god public school than it is to a private one. The top 10 districts in my state all have home values that are over a million dollars, but all those schools are better than most private schools.

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        Private school is not automatically better. I live in a million dollar house and very much intend to use the public school district here.

        • I mean when your public school’s rating is 1/10, anything else is surely gonna a lot better.

          Funny thing is: In China, the “private” school I went to was actually worse (according to mom)… its made for migrant parents whose kids did not have a Hukou where the parents worked (in cities, parents are from rural areas where there were no jobs) and since the parents want to keep their kids close to them so these “private” schools were the only options since public school didn’t allow them without a local hukou.

          (Cuz the other option would be to leave their kida behind with grandparents so they can go to school where their Hukou is registered… which means kids arent gonna be able to see parents for a long time… which is very sad…)

          Also the house is not a million dollars, its barely like 100k, taxes are low, I’m saying they have like 1 mil in like… small bussiness investments that turns 100k profits every year…

          I could’ve been spared the fears of getting into a fight every day…

          And I did end up getting into a fight…

          And I ended up just using a public defender lol…

          Cuz “it’s just a highschool fight, not that serious, you don’t need a private defence attorney for it”

          I mean sure… I had derivative citizenship from mon’s naturalization so its not like they could deport me…

          So I just… I felt like a burden… since I got mom having to run around to talk to the school then pick me up from the local police station… so I felt like I cause her too much trouble and didn’t feel like I needed a private defence attorney…

          Ended up with charges dismissed anyways…

          But had I been a non citizen, I’d probably have insisted in a private defence attorney to make sure the record is as clean as possible… I mean imagine getting deported over a highschool fight when you acted in self defence lmfao…


          I feel like my mom had an OBSESSION with money… like numbers go up = happiness…

          The house I live in still has a lot of broken stuff…

          Like… this is the OceanGate type of shit with Video Game Controllers as controls… that type of shit…

          That’s how they live life… like they’re in the Titan Submarine… lmfao…

          (Sorry if I’m rambling, I do that a lot…)