Oh, good L@rd, nj (are you still in NJ?). Unlike you, I have nothing to be “sour” about. My kids graduated and will graduate from the top-scoring or 2nd top-scoring (depending on year) HS in the district. Accordingly, their elem school has scored in the low and mid-900’s since the API scores were published and their middle school was a CA Distinguished School three years in a row.
And …. drumroll … these schools are nowhere near LJ, CV or the PUSD.
See, life goes on in the rest of SD County 🙂
Does any other Pigg have entirely self-supporting kids after graduating from SD County HS’s, going onto college and graduating with a Bachelor’s degree? If so, please post with your “results.”
That IS the bottom line here, right? Isn’t that why local homebuyers in “family-raising mode” have been chasing schools over a suitable home for their family (unemcumbered with MR) for the last 15 or so years?
As for me, I’m financially secure enough to take time to “entertain” y’all on this forum periodically. My last kid will check into college late next summer and I will call it a day and proceed to try out a new locale for “retirement” purposes. My kid is currently in NorCal as I write this touring university campuses with a (now very successful) elder sibling who has managed to “support themselves” in SF for over ten years.
My kids are far apart in age and raising them has been a long road for me. I sincerely hope all of you will have self-supporting kids after obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree with no student debt (or even without a degree).
At this late date, I’m essentially “done,” folks, and never in my life chased after an API score (which weren’t even available until the mid-nineties). The truth is, I didn’t even pay attention to them until I began reading this forum and realized that many young homebuyers were chasing those scores over actual location, lot and house. In coastal CA counties, it is my opinion that this mentality is shortsighted and unwise.
