Charter schools usually specialize in something or have an emphasis (music, art, high tech) if you have a kid that’s got a particular talent or preference, they might really do well in that environment. It’s not a sign of a lack of confidence in the schools, it’s more of an experiment that sometimes works for some kids. I never said the schools were the absolute best, but for those of us who are not trading time and money to drive, it’s a good value. 800+ API’s from elem through high school for $100 a square foot. maybe that’s a new metric, temec has an 8 to 1 API to sq footage cost. You could pay 200 a square for 850, but it’s a 4.5 to 1, so there is less value, that’s all.
sdr, she didn’t break out the red pen, she just made a clever joke, if she’s been reading my posts for three years, she is well aware of my love affair for commas and run on sentences. It’s my style, and no matter how many people give me the book “Eats, shoots, and leaves,” and regardless of how many time I read it, this is as good as it gets.
Now I’m not starting the commuting argument again because I made my point about those who don’t have to drive and don’t assume everyone drives far to work. However, I have a friend that bought a home similar to mine in a nice NCC hood and paid more than twice as much than a temec home would go for at the time. He had to work extra hours to earn enough to afford it and so did his wife. I figured out that he could buy a similar place here, let his wife stay home, even if he drove, he’d leave the house and get home at the same time because he wouldn’t work extra and it would basically be a wash, except his wife could stay home, the daycare savings and the reduced house payment covered her net income. That was a few years ago, I hadn’t seen him in a while and recently we ran into each other and that is exactly what he did a while back. After about a year, so did a few of his buddies, who also had little kids and were killing themselves to make ends meet before.
That was their dream, to live a “leave it to beaver, dr. laura, my kids mom” kinda life. The world wouldn’t let him live it in carlsbad. He didn’t wait for the system, or the government, or the conspiracies or the tsuinami or the meltdown or the banks or anyone else. He just realized one day that he can’t have what he wants, where he wants and for what he wants. He just had to decide what his priorities were, choose the lesser of two evils in his eyes and made a decision instead of complaining about how it used to be or how he remembered it when he was a kid.
Because I read that alot on other threads, how 40 years ago a blue collar worker could live in carlsbad with a stay at home wife and life was good. It’s probably true, but it’s not true anymore and I don’t believe it will be true again. It’s also true that in the late 1800’s, what is now the entire town of vista was won in a poker game for $8 or that they used to give away land in the west on a first come first serve basis. Thrifty used to sell ice cream for a nickel a scoop and Jesus turned water into wine. These are all great stories, probably most of them are fairly accurate, but it is no longer true, it’s history. I’ll probably meet jesus and get him to show me how to do the wine trick before average families can live in carlsbad on one income, for right now, you can only pull it off in places like temecula and for right now, my water is water and my wine is wine, but I’ve found peace in those facts, can everyone else.
