fixation on school districts

[EconProf]

Interesting insights, FLU.
Just curious…since you are posting at 4:06 a.m., are you staying up late or getting up early?

[MANmom]

Rich, I as a former military wife have seen many school districts, most in good neighborhoods are fine for the average child. But I have one child who due to a tongue tie is far behind his peers and has an IEP (indiv. educ. plan). This is where districts really matter. Poway unified in my opinion has the best special services I have seen. Best resource teachers, most experience, best evaluation of skills, these things matter a great deal when you are fighting to get you kid help and struggling to get him up to his peer level. I have known many teachers in the 10 years my kids have been in school (four different counties in three states) and PUSD stands out. I just returned from back to school night, and as one teacher said it, she reached the Holy Grail by finally getting into PUSD. She had taught in Logan Heights, North park, all over San Diego, and finally ended up at PUSD. Most of the teachers my kids have had have many years of experience, and while that is not always the best judge of success, it is a reassurance that they know what they are doing. School is barely three weeks old and I have already met with his resource teacher and made decisions on his education plan. Most of the time for the average child, a good neighborhood school is fine, but in certain cases better districts can be the breaker between a child who falls through the cracks and a child who catches up to the rest of his peers.

[MANmom]

Rich, I as a former military wife have seen many school districts, most in good neighborhoods are fine for the average child. But I have one child who due to a tongue tie is far behind his peers and has an IEP (indiv. educ. plan). This is where districts really matter. Poway unified in my opinion has the best special services I have seen. Best resource teachers, most experience, best evaluation of skills, these things matter a great deal when you are fighting to get you kid help and struggling to get him up to his peer level. I have known many teachers in the 10 years my kids have been in school (four different counties in three states) and PUSD stands out. I just returned from back to school night, and as one teacher said it, she reached the Holy Grail by finally getting into PUSD. She had taught in Logan Heights, North park, all over San Diego, and finally ended up at PUSD. Most of the teachers my kids have had have many years of experience, and while that is not always the best judge of success, it is a reassurance that they know what they are doing. School is barely three weeks old and I have already met with his resource teacher and made decisions on his education plan. Most of the time for the average child, a good neighborhood school is fine, but in certain cases better districts can be the breaker between a child who falls through the cracks and a child who catches up to the rest of his peers.

[MANmom]

Rich, I as a former military wife have seen many school districts, most in good neighborhoods are fine for the average child. But I have one child who due to a tongue tie is far behind his peers and has an IEP (indiv. educ. plan). This is where districts really matter. Poway unified in my opinion has the best special services I have seen. Best resource teachers, most experience, best evaluation of skills, these things matter a great deal when you are fighting to get you kid help and struggling to get him up to his peer level. I have known many teachers in the 10 years my kids have been in school (four different counties in three states) and PUSD stands out. I just returned from back to school night, and as one teacher said it, she reached the Holy Grail by finally getting into PUSD. She had taught in Logan Heights, North park, all over San Diego, and finally ended up at PUSD. Most of the teachers my kids have had have many years of experience, and while that is not always the best judge of success, it is a reassurance that they know what they are doing. School is barely three weeks old and I have already met with his resource teacher and made decisions on his education plan. Most of the time for the average child, a good neighborhood school is fine, but in certain cases better districts can be the breaker between a child who falls through the cracks and a child who catches up to the rest of his peers.

[MANmom]

Rich, I as a former military wife have seen many school districts, most in good neighborhoods are fine for the average child. But I have one child who due to a tongue tie is far behind his peers and has an IEP (indiv. educ. plan). This is where districts really matter. Poway unified in my opinion has the best special services I have seen. Best resource teachers, most experience, best evaluation of skills, these things matter a great deal when you are fighting to get you kid help and struggling to get him up to his peer level. I have known many teachers in the 10 years my kids have been in school (four different counties in three states) and PUSD stands out. I just returned from back to school night, and as one teacher said it, she reached the Holy Grail by finally getting into PUSD. She had taught in Logan Heights, North park, all over San Diego, and finally ended up at PUSD. Most of the teachers my kids have had have many years of experience, and while that is not always the best judge of success, it is a reassurance that they know what they are doing. School is barely three weeks old and I have already met with his resource teacher and made decisions on his education plan. Most of the time for the average child, a good neighborhood school is fine, but in certain cases better districts can be the breaker between a child who falls through the cracks and a child who catches up to the rest of his peers.

[MANmom]

Rich, I as a former military wife have seen many school districts, most in good neighborhoods are fine for the average child. But I have one child who due to a tongue tie is far behind his peers and has an IEP (indiv. educ. plan). This is where districts really matter. Poway unified in my opinion has the best special services I have seen. Best resource teachers, most experience, best evaluation of skills, these things matter a great deal when you are fighting to get you kid help and struggling to get him up to his peer level. I have known many teachers in the 10 years my kids have been in school (four different counties in three states) and PUSD stands out. I just returned from back to school night, and as one teacher said it, she reached the Holy Grail by finally getting into PUSD. She had taught in Logan Heights, North park, all over San Diego, and finally ended up at PUSD. Most of the teachers my kids have had have many years of experience, and while that is not always the best judge of success, it is a reassurance that they know what they are doing. School is barely three weeks old and I have already met with his resource teacher and made decisions on his education plan. Most of the time for the average child, a good neighborhood school is fine, but in certain cases better districts can be the breaker between a child who falls through the cracks and a child who catches up to the rest of his peers.

[Coronita]

[quote]Interesting insights, FLU.
Just curious…since you are posting at 4:06 a.m., are you staying up late or getting up early?[/quote]

On some days (like yesterday), I get 2 hrs of sleep. Combination of a day job, a side gig for myself, a side gig for my wife, and waiting folks on the other side of the world to respond, taking care of a kid that has a propensity to get up in the middle of the night, and fixing a deadbolt lock that somehow my inlaws managed to break. (I did get one of those cool digital keyless deadbolts, though it was a pain in the ass to install after I stripped one of the bolts.)

Also, I also fubbed fixing my car last night went a piece of plastic fell down the oil dipstick hole, and is somewhere inside my oil pan. Great….

[Coronita]

[quote]Interesting insights, FLU.
Just curious…since you are posting at 4:06 a.m., are you staying up late or getting up early?[/quote]

On some days (like yesterday), I get 2 hrs of sleep. Combination of a day job, a side gig for myself, a side gig for my wife, and waiting folks on the other side of the world to respond, taking care of a kid that has a propensity to get up in the middle of the night, and fixing a deadbolt lock that somehow my inlaws managed to break. (I did get one of those cool digital keyless deadbolts, though it was a pain in the ass to install after I stripped one of the bolts.)

Also, I also fubbed fixing my car last night went a piece of plastic fell down the oil dipstick hole, and is somewhere inside my oil pan. Great….

[Coronita]

[quote]Interesting insights, FLU.
Just curious…since you are posting at 4:06 a.m., are you staying up late or getting up early?[/quote]

On some days (like yesterday), I get 2 hrs of sleep. Combination of a day job, a side gig for myself, a side gig for my wife, and waiting folks on the other side of the world to respond, taking care of a kid that has a propensity to get up in the middle of the night, and fixing a deadbolt lock that somehow my inlaws managed to break. (I did get one of those cool digital keyless deadbolts, though it was a pain in the ass to install after I stripped one of the bolts.)

Also, I also fubbed fixing my car last night went a piece of plastic fell down the oil dipstick hole, and is somewhere inside my oil pan. Great….

[Coronita]

[quote]Interesting insights, FLU.
Just curious…since you are posting at 4:06 a.m., are you staying up late or getting up early?[/quote]

On some days (like yesterday), I get 2 hrs of sleep. Combination of a day job, a side gig for myself, a side gig for my wife, and waiting folks on the other side of the world to respond, taking care of a kid that has a propensity to get up in the middle of the night, and fixing a deadbolt lock that somehow my inlaws managed to break. (I did get one of those cool digital keyless deadbolts, though it was a pain in the ass to install after I stripped one of the bolts.)

Also, I also fubbed fixing my car last night went a piece of plastic fell down the oil dipstick hole, and is somewhere inside my oil pan. Great….

[Coronita]

[quote]Interesting insights, FLU.
Just curious…since you are posting at 4:06 a.m., are you staying up late or getting up early?[/quote]

On some days (like yesterday), I get 2 hrs of sleep. Combination of a day job, a side gig for myself, a side gig for my wife, and waiting folks on the other side of the world to respond, taking care of a kid that has a propensity to get up in the middle of the night, and fixing a deadbolt lock that somehow my inlaws managed to break. (I did get one of those cool digital keyless deadbolts, though it was a pain in the ass to install after I stripped one of the bolts.)

Also, I also fubbed fixing my car last night went a piece of plastic fell down the oil dipstick hole, and is somewhere inside my oil pan. Great….

[svelte]

I’ve never understood the school district fixation myself.

When we picked a neighborhood in which to raise our kids, we picked an area where the neighbors were much like us in their attitudes and their income level. We didn’t want our kids to feel like the poor kids (by buying in at the top of what we could afford) nor the rich kids (by buying too far below what we could afford). We wanted them to feel like they fit right in.

That has worked very well, as they are both happy, well adjusted and ready to enter adulthood with a very good set of morals and self images. Parents and home life are far, far more important to a child’s well being than school district.

But schools do play some role, so I quietly smile when people pay hundreds of thousands of dollars extra to buy a home simply because of a school district. Who am I to judge?

[svelte]

I’ve never understood the school district fixation myself.

When we picked a neighborhood in which to raise our kids, we picked an area where the neighbors were much like us in their attitudes and their income level. We didn’t want our kids to feel like the poor kids (by buying in at the top of what we could afford) nor the rich kids (by buying too far below what we could afford). We wanted them to feel like they fit right in.

That has worked very well, as they are both happy, well adjusted and ready to enter adulthood with a very good set of morals and self images. Parents and home life are far, far more important to a child’s well being than school district.

But schools do play some role, so I quietly smile when people pay hundreds of thousands of dollars extra to buy a home simply because of a school district. Who am I to judge?

[svelte]

I’ve never understood the school district fixation myself.

When we picked a neighborhood in which to raise our kids, we picked an area where the neighbors were much like us in their attitudes and their income level. We didn’t want our kids to feel like the poor kids (by buying in at the top of what we could afford) nor the rich kids (by buying too far below what we could afford). We wanted them to feel like they fit right in.

That has worked very well, as they are both happy, well adjusted and ready to enter adulthood with a very good set of morals and self images. Parents and home life are far, far more important to a child’s well being than school district.

But schools do play some role, so I quietly smile when people pay hundreds of thousands of dollars extra to buy a home simply because of a school district. Who am I to judge?

[svelte]

I’ve never understood the school district fixation myself.

When we picked a neighborhood in which to raise our kids, we picked an area where the neighbors were much like us in their attitudes and their income level. We didn’t want our kids to feel like the poor kids (by buying in at the top of what we could afford) nor the rich kids (by buying too far below what we could afford). We wanted them to feel like they fit right in.

That has worked very well, as they are both happy, well adjusted and ready to enter adulthood with a very good set of morals and self images. Parents and home life are far, far more important to a child’s well being than school district.

But schools do play some role, so I quietly smile when people pay hundreds of thousands of dollars extra to buy a home simply because of a school district. Who am I to judge?

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