[quote=UCGal]A couple of corrections here.
– Bay Ho and Bay Park are NOT in the LJHS area. Bay Ho can choose between Mission Bay HS and Clairemont HS. Not sure about Bay Park – but since it’s south of Bay Ho – it’s not LJHS. LJHS does extend slightly outside of 92037 – by a few blocks in north PB. (aka Baja La Jolla.)
– The 20 kids max in K-3 went out the window this year due to budget cuts. My sons are both in this grade level – both are in classes larger than 20 at Curie Elementary.[/quote]
I didn’t state in my post that IT WAS A FACT that Bay Park/Bay Ho were in the LJ school attendance area, only that Scarlett should check this out. I only have INTIMATE knowledge of South County. I recently called my friends in Bay Park and it turns out they were using “grandma’s” address in LJ for school attendance purposes, for child care reasons. Their children are now out of elem. school and no longer attending LJ schools.
CVESD still has 20 children per classroom in K-3, except for one Charter school that I am aware of.
Regarding parents breaking their backs in attempt to buy properties in certain school attendance areas, I still maintain that it is the STUDENT and his or her FAMILY environment and NOT the school that determines the students GPA and thus what college he or she gets accepted to. Students from ALL HS’s are accepted to top colleges. The opportunity is there for ALL students EVERYWHERE to excel in a college-prep curriculum, if they CHOOSE to.
Conversely, I know a child whom most people would have considered to have grown up with many advantages but “flunked out” of Poway High School in the 10th grade. Her dad then placed her in an expensive local private high school, where she was caught vandalizing the school with other students ONE MONTH SHORT OF GRADUATION, so was expelled.
She is now 22, recently earned her GED and is attending Mesa College and working.
