First off..You know. Most folks don’t need extra “emphasis”. Because if folks really are going to read what you wrote, it doesn’t matter if you bold/italicize things. And if people don’t plan on reading it, then it also doesn’t matter what you bold/italicize anyway.
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flu, you are clearly the exception here.
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Well, that’s the point though. There are always exceptions, and there are many many exceptions. To the point that generalizations aren’t no longer represent the majority.
[quote] And my understanding is that your tract’s MR is not very high. (Correct me if I’m wrong.) I’m aware that a HUGE portion of MR is allocated the respective public school districts. If a young family only has a baby or toddler or a buyer’s children have already finished school, why pay MR years before you have to or years after your family doesn’t use the schools anymore!
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Again, from your viewpoint you think it doesn’t make sense and for various reasons to many people it makes a whole lot of sense.
1. If you have baby or toddler, AND if your you’ve got the money to live in a presumably more costly place to live. The last thing you want is to wait until the last minute to buy a home.
2. Presumably after some time Mellos ruse is paid.
3. Even if you don’t have kids, perhaps you just want to live in that part of town because well, it fits your social/economic background.
4. You like living in a newer area than something that looks 20+years old.
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For that matter, why pay it at all?
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Because again, some people can afford it, some people want to. And it’s no different that some people want to drive a new car and can afford to do so… Yes, BG, there are some people in this world that don’t want to save every single cent they earn for whatever reasons, and it is possible that some people earn a lot more cents than others so that paying $2500-5000 year is nothing. BG, some people pay that alone for 1 month’s of rent.
And no BG, just because some people have the means to do this doesn’t make then “less financially stable”, “less financially prudent” than anything else. Mitt Romney can probably afford a Ferrari or two or three, because that probably represents less than 10% of his net annual income. For the rest of us, we can’t fathom that sort of level of expenditure. One good thing that this economic downturn did though, is it shut down the credit spigot so folks that use to spend on credit have a much more difficult time to..
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Is the difference is school services the MR buys really WORTH $2500 to $5000+ annually?
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For many people, yes. But if you don’t subscribe to the opinion/belief that there is no fundamental difference between different colleges versus vocational versus community-college etc, then you’ll never see understand what others think and why others are willing to pay for more things that *may* (not guaranteed, but may) open more doors. And let’s not get into an argument on whether it will really open more doors or not. Because I said *may*…..It might not for that specific individual(s), but clearly it wouldn’t reduce the person’s opportunities… I mean, let’s face it, if cost wasn’t an issue and your kid has the option of going to say MIT or say CSNorthridge….can you honestly say that it it “wouldn’t matter”? If you really do feel that way (and there’s nothing wrong with that opinion), then you won’t understand the other viewpoint. So the real issue boils down to affordability..And that depends on family/invididual standings…
If cost/income wasn’t an issue, I would be sending my kid to LAJolla Countryday or Bishop Montegomery or some other private school, simply because…why not?
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The reason I ask this is because MR is not typically used for teacher salaries. It is used for infrastructure, maintenance and possibly programs (not sure about this).
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I believe DMUSD, 80% of mello ruse funds the school or close to it.
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In almost all the CA districts, the most experienced teachers with the most seniority are granted the work assignments of their choice. More often than not, these choices are schools in the the most established areas where families have the resources for school lunches, school trips, extracurricular activities, etc. These schools very often are in older (expensive) coastal areas.
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Not sure how this is relevant. Because in a district with MR, I would venture to say probably the district itself is socially/economically consistent so the schools probably are relatively consistent. In DMUSD, the difference between Sage Canyon, Ocean Air, Ashley Falls, Sycamore, or Torrey Hills probably falls within the margin of error of your kid’s ability.
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Buying a family home in a well-established, well-heeled older urban area in CA coastal counties all but assures your child of a good education, sans the MR and transiency of a large portion of the student body, IMHO.
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What’s your definition of well-established? Because just because an area has MR doesn’t mean it’s not well established. CV/Encinitas/Carlesbad have been around for awhile. CV’s been around for like close to 15 years I believe. Seems like it’s pretty consistent to me.
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Going to your college alumni meetups is a good idea, just to cultivate professional relationships for yourself. Obviously, if you are ever in a position to leave an endowment to your alma mater, that might very well “assist” your kid in getting accepted. I would do so no more than two years before your kid applies to said university, so the “admissions board” has a crystal clear memory of it.
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For awhile, I was active in the admissions process. I use to interview prospectives.
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But flu, isn’t your kid only about 5 yrs old? It’s a bit soon to know what she would even want to major in or where she would want to go.[/quote]
Because if the option is there to go to a more versatile school, one has the option of switching majors. Take my sibling. She started out a bio-engr. Hated it.. Switched freshman year to econ/business. Interview with i-bank on Wall Street, 2 years later,s the rest of enginerd-ville was history. I guarantee such a move would not have been possible if she had the opportunity to go to a more versatile school. Simply because the firm she ended up only recruits out of select schools. Call it what you want, but some companies/opportunities are only available at perceived select schools. That’s not to say their isn’t a lot of other equally good/equivalent opportunities. Just that if the opportunity is there, and if it somewhat is obtainable and possibly desired, no point throwing it away.
