fixation on school districts

[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?

[EconProf]

Apologies for going somewhat OT.
Everyone here pretty much agrees with the concept that a wealthier family can “buy” their way into a good education for their kids by paying up for a better neighborhood. This has implications for the push for vouchers by different constituencies.
It is no accident that black parents are the biggest advocates for vouchers. Their kids are trapped in the worst schools with, generally speaking, the weakest teachers (all protected in their incompetence by their unions), and unable to escape by buying into better neighborhoods or turning to private schools. Their natural allies in this politically conservative stand ought to be Republicans and conservatives. Yet the latter are content with the present system because their kids go to the best of the public schools. So, by accident or design, the teachers’ unions have slowed the growth of vouchers (though vouchers and non-unionized charter schools are still spreading slowly but surely).

[EconProf]

Apologies for going somewhat OT.
Everyone here pretty much agrees with the concept that a wealthier family can “buy” their way into a good education for their kids by paying up for a better neighborhood. This has implications for the push for vouchers by different constituencies.
It is no accident that black parents are the biggest advocates for vouchers. Their kids are trapped in the worst schools with, generally speaking, the weakest teachers (all protected in their incompetence by their unions), and unable to escape by buying into better neighborhoods or turning to private schools. Their natural allies in this politically conservative stand ought to be Republicans and conservatives. Yet the latter are content with the present system because their kids go to the best of the public schools. So, by accident or design, the teachers’ unions have slowed the growth of vouchers (though vouchers and non-unionized charter schools are still spreading slowly but surely).

[EconProf]

Apologies for going somewhat OT.
Everyone here pretty much agrees with the concept that a wealthier family can “buy” their way into a good education for their kids by paying up for a better neighborhood. This has implications for the push for vouchers by different constituencies.
It is no accident that black parents are the biggest advocates for vouchers. Their kids are trapped in the worst schools with, generally speaking, the weakest teachers (all protected in their incompetence by their unions), and unable to escape by buying into better neighborhoods or turning to private schools. Their natural allies in this politically conservative stand ought to be Republicans and conservatives. Yet the latter are content with the present system because their kids go to the best of the public schools. So, by accident or design, the teachers’ unions have slowed the growth of vouchers (though vouchers and non-unionized charter schools are still spreading slowly but surely).

[EconProf]

Apologies for going somewhat OT.
Everyone here pretty much agrees with the concept that a wealthier family can “buy” their way into a good education for their kids by paying up for a better neighborhood. This has implications for the push for vouchers by different constituencies.
It is no accident that black parents are the biggest advocates for vouchers. Their kids are trapped in the worst schools with, generally speaking, the weakest teachers (all protected in their incompetence by their unions), and unable to escape by buying into better neighborhoods or turning to private schools. Their natural allies in this politically conservative stand ought to be Republicans and conservatives. Yet the latter are content with the present system because their kids go to the best of the public schools. So, by accident or design, the teachers’ unions have slowed the growth of vouchers (though vouchers and non-unionized charter schools are still spreading slowly but surely).

[EconProf]

Apologies for going somewhat OT.
Everyone here pretty much agrees with the concept that a wealthier family can “buy” their way into a good education for their kids by paying up for a better neighborhood. This has implications for the push for vouchers by different constituencies.
It is no accident that black parents are the biggest advocates for vouchers. Their kids are trapped in the worst schools with, generally speaking, the weakest teachers (all protected in their incompetence by their unions), and unable to escape by buying into better neighborhoods or turning to private schools. Their natural allies in this politically conservative stand ought to be Republicans and conservatives. Yet the latter are content with the present system because their kids go to the best of the public schools. So, by accident or design, the teachers’ unions have slowed the growth of vouchers (though vouchers and non-unionized charter schools are still spreading slowly but surely).

[Fearful]

[quote=fat_lazy_union_worker]
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….
[/quote]

Do not worry about any piece of plastic small enough to fall inside the dipstick hole. There is a screen at the oil intake, and if the piece of plastic is small enough to get past the screen, it will be trapped in the oil filter, and if too large to get past the screen, it will just hang out there.

Thank you for your pull-no-punches treatise on the Asian invasion of Carmel Valley. I even saved it in my archives. I am working very hard to figure out whether CV is a long term bet for me and my children, and at the same time wondering whether, if it is a good place to live for the long term, when and if the real estate values will ever get pounded. I can easily see a Chinese invasion propping up the values indefinitely, a la Cupertino, which has few redeeming values besides the domino effect you describe.

[Fearful]

[quote=fat_lazy_union_worker]
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….
[/quote]

Do not worry about any piece of plastic small enough to fall inside the dipstick hole. There is a screen at the oil intake, and if the piece of plastic is small enough to get past the screen, it will be trapped in the oil filter, and if too large to get past the screen, it will just hang out there.

Thank you for your pull-no-punches treatise on the Asian invasion of Carmel Valley. I even saved it in my archives. I am working very hard to figure out whether CV is a long term bet for me and my children, and at the same time wondering whether, if it is a good place to live for the long term, when and if the real estate values will ever get pounded. I can easily see a Chinese invasion propping up the values indefinitely, a la Cupertino, which has few redeeming values besides the domino effect you describe.

[Fearful]

[quote=fat_lazy_union_worker]
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….
[/quote]

Do not worry about any piece of plastic small enough to fall inside the dipstick hole. There is a screen at the oil intake, and if the piece of plastic is small enough to get past the screen, it will be trapped in the oil filter, and if too large to get past the screen, it will just hang out there.

Thank you for your pull-no-punches treatise on the Asian invasion of Carmel Valley. I even saved it in my archives. I am working very hard to figure out whether CV is a long term bet for me and my children, and at the same time wondering whether, if it is a good place to live for the long term, when and if the real estate values will ever get pounded. I can easily see a Chinese invasion propping up the values indefinitely, a la Cupertino, which has few redeeming values besides the domino effect you describe.

[Fearful]

[quote=fat_lazy_union_worker]
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….
[/quote]

Do not worry about any piece of plastic small enough to fall inside the dipstick hole. There is a screen at the oil intake, and if the piece of plastic is small enough to get past the screen, it will be trapped in the oil filter, and if too large to get past the screen, it will just hang out there.

Thank you for your pull-no-punches treatise on the Asian invasion of Carmel Valley. I even saved it in my archives. I am working very hard to figure out whether CV is a long term bet for me and my children, and at the same time wondering whether, if it is a good place to live for the long term, when and if the real estate values will ever get pounded. I can easily see a Chinese invasion propping up the values indefinitely, a la Cupertino, which has few redeeming values besides the domino effect you describe.

[Fearful]

[quote=fat_lazy_union_worker]
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….
[/quote]

Do not worry about any piece of plastic small enough to fall inside the dipstick hole. There is a screen at the oil intake, and if the piece of plastic is small enough to get past the screen, it will be trapped in the oil filter, and if too large to get past the screen, it will just hang out there.

Thank you for your pull-no-punches treatise on the Asian invasion of Carmel Valley. I even saved it in my archives. I am working very hard to figure out whether CV is a long term bet for me and my children, and at the same time wondering whether, if it is a good place to live for the long term, when and if the real estate values will ever get pounded. I can easily see a Chinese invasion propping up the values indefinitely, a la Cupertino, which has few redeeming values besides the domino effect you describe.

[an]

Anyone heard McCain’s speech yesterday? The part about his plan for fixing education. He said he’ll give parents choices between private, public, and charter schools. If he gets elected and does follow through with this promise, how would this change the “premium” people put in an area due to schools? If you can send your kids to private schools or schools in CV/Poway/etc. w/out having to live in the area, wouldn’t that eliminate the school “premium”?

[an]

Anyone heard McCain’s speech yesterday? The part about his plan for fixing education. He said he’ll give parents choices between private, public, and charter schools. If he gets elected and does follow through with this promise, how would this change the “premium” people put in an area due to schools? If you can send your kids to private schools or schools in CV/Poway/etc. w/out having to live in the area, wouldn’t that eliminate the school “premium”?

[an]

Anyone heard McCain’s speech yesterday? The part about his plan for fixing education. He said he’ll give parents choices between private, public, and charter schools. If he gets elected and does follow through with this promise, how would this change the “premium” people put in an area due to schools? If you can send your kids to private schools or schools in CV/Poway/etc. w/out having to live in the area, wouldn’t that eliminate the school “premium”?

[an]

Anyone heard McCain’s speech yesterday? The part about his plan for fixing education. He said he’ll give parents choices between private, public, and charter schools. If he gets elected and does follow through with this promise, how would this change the “premium” people put in an area due to schools? If you can send your kids to private schools or schools in CV/Poway/etc. w/out having to live in the area, wouldn’t that eliminate the school “premium”?

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