[quote=SkyRanchOwner]Private elementary schools in East County are much less than the private schools in La Jolla and Del Mar. Out East for a regular elementary private school you would be looking at $300-$400 per month (…)
If they are highschool age (…)about $1,000 per month.
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The current problem with public schools is the “no child left behind”. Most teachers now spend more time bringing up the challenged kids than helping the best ones excel more. Plus, you can’t celebrate Christmas, Easter, possibly Halloween, and other standard traditions in public schools because they offend someone/somewhere. Feel free to ask any teacher in a San Diego public school and they will tell you all this is true.
In addition, if you are Christian or Catholic, public schools don’t teach religion, and it is important for them to build these morals and values at a young age to help carry them through life, in my opinion.
There is less drugs and alcohol problems, on average in private schools. Not to say these issues don’t exist, it’s just that they are much less than your regular public schools.
Scarlett, you’ll have to drive up here to Sky Ranch to check it out and talk to the sales office. It’s a nice community, and it’s building as new homes sell. Yes, by the way, you get a brand new home. No problems to mess with like plumbing, roof, electrical, etc.
You can take the 52 straight to La Jolla when it is finished. (…)
Also, they plan to build a Fast Track lane on the 52, so in a few years when this is complete, the commute should be even faster![/quote]
I agree to what you are saying about “no child left behind”. Not sure how academically inclined my kids will be, so maybe I don’t want to stress them too much. But I’d like if they could go to a Christian/Catholic school, at least when they are young. Even at UCSD, they didn’t celebrate Halloween last year… so yes, I know about the religious holidays.
Santee is certainly a possibility and I must say that a new house is very appealing (beside liking to not have to deal with issues mentioned, we don’t want to mess around with home improvements, re-painting, re-carpeting and such. We are not handy at all and pretty busy too). Of course, we have to weigh everything – commute, schools (and their ranking and cost). But we’ll be sure to give it a look this year, we are in no hurry. (We hope to buy something in a year).
