sd r:
i dont remember where, but i read someone actually say “if you own kids…” i thought that was awesomely sick.
as an adult child, i think i could have used more discipline and less choices. responsibility only came late, after many many fines, bad credit and such. i’m still quite the underachiever.
bad parenting? ok. but i’d be a fool think that i’d be any better. i wouldn’t ask the school to be parents, only that they provide an environment where the kid would and must learn responsibility, discipline, skills, knowledge and critical thinking of course and self reliance. my own responsibilities in those areas would be limited to providing that environment. leading by example would be futile, encouraging that which i’m not would be obviously hypocritical to a child. i’d want my kid to be better than me, not the same.
ozzie:
do you have a link for your per pupil expenditures claim?
i have no doubt that schools affect housing. you see it here every day, the thing everyone always mentions is the school district. i question whether it’s worth it, to spend so much more money on a home in a “good” school district vs private school. i brought up boarding school as the solution to education, environment and location (ie., private school being too far away from where ever you may live).
