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ParticipantScarlett, I never stated that public schools offered naps. And not all of them offer breakfast. I stated that before and afterschool programs offer naps to (morning) kindergarteners who get out of school 2-4 hours before the rest of the elementary grades are dismissed. Some before and afterschool programs offer breakfast or they will prepare the breakfast your kid packs in their lunch. They will keep your kid’s lunch in their refrigerator and then walk or drive your kid to school, along with the rest of their charges. Then they will drive or walk over and pick up the kids after kindergarten and feed them lunch or warm up the lunches they brought and then let them rest for 2 hours or so until the other afterschoolers arrive. Then snacks are served and at least two workers are dispatched for homework help. This is the case for Children’s World and YMCA before/afterschool programs. There are several others in the communities.
The DASH program in Chula Vista is like the “6 to 6” program in SD in that it is held in the school cafeteria before and after school and dispatches 2 workers to each school (depending on number of participants) for homework help after school. A few public elementary schools offer DASH coinciding with their normal breakfast times and a few more have dedicated before/afterschool program centers on the premises of the elem school grounds. These centers are run by contractors. The kids who don’t have homework or have finished it can play on the playground or in the gym until they are picked up. Whatever is open to DASH (gym and/or playground) has a DASH worker dispatched to those areas also. Last time I looked (maybe 2005/6), DASH was relatively inexpensive (abt $37-$57 per week for the first child with slight discounts for more children of the same family). The fee is adjusted to the family incomes and is waived for new workers who were previously on TANF.
My kids loved all their daycare providers and pre-K experiences. I NEVER picked them up tired or hungry and they were very rarely sick. I got to the daycare homes (one whom took young infants) or before/afterschool center between 5:35 and 6:00 every day. In the end (2007?), I was paying about $366 mo for private before/afterschool care which had a full kitchen where they heated snacks daily and baked birthday cakes for every single child. They also had a 1 AC well-equipped playground. It was awesome.
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]OK not saying your not right,
But If the fed raises rates, and the housing market crashes (Again), will that not mess up the banks once more, not to mention the economy and local municipalities coffers?
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Mortgage interest rate hikes won’t make the market “crash.” Not when millions of buyers in recent years bought with super low fixed-rate mortgages, mostly 30 years in duration. And 95% of the rest of the buyers paid all cash when they bought.
How are all these properties suddently going to fall into “distress?”
The reality is that they aren’t. Rate hikes won’t affect the amount of buyers, either. They will only affect how much each buyer can borrow. This doesn’t mean buyers won’t buy a residence if they need one. It just won’t be the type of residence that FTB’s and STB’s have become (artificially) “accustomed to” being able to buy in recent years. It will be lesser in size, in a lesser location or in lesser condition or all three.
Buyers will have to suck it up and deal with it.
And if rents keep escalating, people who want to stay will not want to keep paying exorbitant monthly rent if they have the ability to buy.
The SD RE market will go on as it always has and all will be as it should be in a CA coastal county.
Prospective buyers who are now waiting for another “crash” to buy in SD County will find themselves waiting forever, IMO.
Participant[quote=Rhett]. . . 2. 7:30 – 6:00 is a long day for a kid K-2.[/quote]
True and the caregivers realize this. This is why they get long naps and a couple of snacks (along with breakfast and/or lunch if the caregiver is private). Otherwise at least breakfast is served by the school and the kindergarten child brings a bag lunch. By the time their parent picks them up at ~6:00, they are rested and happy and will wait for dinner to be prepared 🙂
Thousands of parents must have their kids in FT daycare in order to hold down FT jobs that they must commute to. It is a fact of life and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with it. If less of these young parents worked, they would likely be availing themselves of EBT cards, Healthy Families and even TANF in some cases. We can’t fault parents for desiring to support their children legitimately.
Participant[quote=Rhett] . . . Like the original poster, we had a *major* problem with Miramar Ranch’s bell schedule. Our problem was the reverse – the 7:30 start is just way too early for us, and we’d much prefer a 9:00 start. But, like BearishGirl said, you can always use the after hours program and just adjust (though it makes for a LONG day for your child, and that isn’t so great)….[/quote]
Rhett, before and after-school programs for the elementary-school set are coordinated with school breakfast programs, have “homework help” and recreational activities in the afternoon and are specifically designed to cater to the needs of FT-worker parents, most of whom commute to work. I myself used them from 7-5:30 or 7:30-6 five days per week for decades. Kids should keep a schedule most convenient for their parents who support them, not the other way around, IMO. Kids are resilient and will fall into the routine that their parents set for them. Believe me when I tell you that they will still graduate from HS and get accepted into college…latchkey or no. In most cases, I believe kids who are socialized from infancy in daycare, pre-K, and a before and afterschool program are not only better-equipped to deal with HS, college and thus “real life,” they generally live in more solvent, stable households than a one-earner family with kids who stay home with ONE of the parents or other relative who may tend to over-coddle or cloister them into select pre-approved playmate groups (based upon the religious beliefs of the parents, for example). This type of parent is doing their kid(s) a great disservice, IMHO. It is these same families with kids who have only been allowed to watch 2-3 (prescreened) channels on TV (or none at all) who end up with a rebellious MS-aged child, pregnant teen or a HS-aged son secretly stockpiling weapons in his bedroom. In the past decade-plus, over-the-top “child-centric” and/or “helicopter” parents have proliferated enormously in the US, cranking out mostly inept social misfits (at the very least) in the name of “protecting them” from “bad influences” (read: people not like us). It’s wacky, IMHO. The world is just not that bad of a place.
I’m not suggesting that the OP here is one. I’m just saying that I think a lot of today’s parents make dumb or misguided decisions re their children or overly burdensome, expensive decisions on their behalf which are not necessary and don’t ultimately make their kids any happier or give them a better growing-up experience.
Participant[quote=Stuck]I was trying abandon my post after receiving bunch of “quick to judge” opinions rather than a productive Q&A as I would imagine how it goes…[/quote]
Stuck, as you know, you did not abandon your post because of my initial comment. I read your OP and was in the process of responding to it at the time you abandoned it.
[quote=Stuck]We don’t intend to abandon our house (sell it, rent it, or give it away) for a “rented room”…oh hell no, we just want to spend enough time or so there to get our kid to the school we want.[/quote]
This is a preposterous idea, IMHO. How much time is “enough time” to spend every month in the rented room in order to “qualify” for residency?? And how are you going to find a homeowner to rent you and your family ONE room in the school attendance area of your choice? And is paying $500 – $750 mo for a “rented room” worth it just to get your kid in a school that lets out 90 mins later in the afternoons? Afterschool care is MUCH cheaper than that.
[quote=Stuck]Ignore all other so not important factors when comparing 2 schools, the main reason is the bell’s schedule of DM (3:30PM) works perfect for my work schedule where I can pick up my kid and spend the rest of the afternoon doing homework or other activities with kid; rather than organizing a pickup and after school activities after the Miramar Ranch’s bell ringing at 2PM. The istance from our house to both school is practically the same.[/quote]
Stuck, does Miramar Ranch have a 6-6 (Afterschool) program? Or can the YMCA pick up your kid and keep them at their center for an hour? Both of these solutions are cheap no-brainers to your very common problem….
[quote=Stuck]Obviously, without you mentioned about the schools that I was referring to, nobody care what schools are at discussed…just give out opinions …[/quote]
Stuck, Rhett knew Dingeman was one of the schools because he saw the name of your thread in his toolbar when he was reading it:
//piggington.com/we_are_not_accepted_by_choice_application_to_dingman_now_what
I just removed the “http” from your thread address so you can see that the above is the name of this thread. All readers of this thread can see its address.
May 30, 2013 at 2:36 PM in reply to: Which public schools are better: Carmel Valley or La Jolla #762313Participant[quote=Rhett]. . . there actually is a not so insignificant amount of choice students in La Jolla High – so it’s less of a closed community at that level than would seem at first glance. . . . [/quote]
Rhett, I believe you are referring to VEEP and magnet students as the out-of-area students attending LJ High. I would imagine that zero or close to zero CHOICE applications are granted to attend that school.
Many of the (deserving) VEEP students attending LJ High typically hail from the Abraham Lincoln and Samuel Morse HS attendance areas and must keep their grade point averages up every semester to maintain their VEEP transfer eligibility.
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook] . . . People have lost their friggin’ minds, right along with their perspective and sense of proportion.[/quote]
Yes, Allan, I, too find it positively wacky that a parent would be asking this forum the probability of them being able to move out of their “dream home” (their words) into a “rented room” of a home within an adjoining elem school attendance area, in order for their five-year old to attend that school.
It’s not like their neighborhood school anywhere near qualifies their kid for a (space-A) placement under the NCLB Act, lol . . .
Participant[quote=Rhett]Since this has been deleted, does anybody remember which Scripps Ranch schools were being discussed?
Sounds like somebody in Miramar Ranch’s boundaries trying to get into Dingeman.[/quote]
Yes, Rhett, that was the case. What is the big deal, anyway … especially for a KINDERGARTENER?
I know of more than a dozen SDUSD students currently residing in PH (92139) who are attending SR schools on VEEP and magnet transfers. It is a 45-min bus ride for them one-way, barring any freeway mishaps. This is just a small microcosm of my own acquaintances residing in only ONE zip code. This will never change. The OP should have purchased or rented a residence in his/her desired school attendance area from the get go. It is ridiculous to come back three years later and cry wolf when they were (predictably) not granted their CHOICE transfer application that they undoubtedly thought their child would be entitled to.
That’s not the way the “system” works and never was. All agents working within SDUSD are well aware of this (or should be). If they don’t or are failing to advise their clients as such when they KNOW that school attendance area is their client’s top criteria for choosing a residence, then they are doing them a disservice if they are not discussing the chances of their children qualifying for a VEEP or magnet transfer PRIOR to making their offer.
IIRC, don’t you and Scarlett live in UC where your kid(s) attend public school? And are you still searching to buy a residence for your family?
Just wondering, Rhett. It’s been a long time for you guys.
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Paramount: Good job, dude. You went and frightened the nice people off.[/quote]
Allan, that “nice poster” was positively distressed that their 4-5 yr old’s CHOICE application was turned down for a spot in one SR elem school when their child’s attendance area was actually within a neighboring elem school. The OP stated they purchased their “dream home” in SR in 2010 and asked here about the viability of “renting a room” in a residence of a home in the preferred school’s attendance area so their kid could get into the preferred school!
One has to wonder if the OP was ever advised by their agent at the time of their offer that CHOICE applications are given less priority than VEEP and magnet applications and that SR schools have historically heavily accepted a large contingent of both VEEP and magnet students.
This is just another case of extremely unrealistic expectations on the part of a homebuyer and also demonstrates the consequences of buying where you really don’t want to live but instead buying for the sake of buying when you could have continued to make offers or rent (both attendance areas having properties of equal or nearly equal value).
ParticipantUhhh, Stuck?? Don’t you remember that there was a LOT more listing inventory to choose from in 2010?
Pray tell, WHY did you buy a principal residence for yourselves back then with which you were wholly unsatisfied with its location? Couldn’t you have made offers on anything and everything available in your school attendance area of choice, even condos and fixers, etc, if it was THAT important to you? Or RENT something there??
The GOOD news is, IF you didn’t remove equity from your residence AFTER you purchased it, you can likely now SELL it for a profit. The BAD news is that you will then have to live somewhere and that “sale profit” may or may not be enough for a downpayment on a replacement residence of your choosing. That leaves renting in your choice location.
Can I just ask here, “what exactly is wrong with the public elem school in your attendance area?”
Am I missing something?
And DO YOU REALIZE that your kid has a l-o-o-ong way to go before they have to be worried about qualifying for college admission??
For chrissakes, Stuck .. we ARE talking about KINDERGARTEN here, right? ‘kay, just wanted to make sure we’re on the same page.
Relax. You don’t all have to crowd in a 9×12’ rented room. If I may, I’d like to make a suggestion. It’s past time to enroll your kid in school so go to your neighborhood school and do this ASAP. Trust me when I tell you that your 4-5-year-old will never know the difference between schools so PLEASE don’t spoil it for them :=0
May 29, 2013 at 4:28 PM in reply to: Which public schools are better: Carmel Valley or La Jolla #762282Participantnazzy, flyer is correct that you will get more house for your money in Carmel Valley. But you will likely get a bigger lot for the same purchase price in LJ. And Carmel Valley doesn’t have very many one-story homes. It is comprised of tract developments, the vast majority of which were built in the last 20 years with a good portion of them built in the last 10 years. Additionally, some tracts there have Mello Roos tax, which is a tax over and above regular property tax and collected by the assessor along with property taxes.
LJ single-family residences are 40-85 years old with the majority being 55-65 years old with major remodels sprinkled on nearly every block. Unlike Carmel Valley, the views from many streets in LJ could have partial or full ocean views. However, in your price range it is doubtful you will find a SFR with more than a partial or “peek” view out of some windows as most of those coveted “view fixers” have undoubtedly already been snapped up by cash buyers only to immediately undergo a major remodel.
Good luck in your search. Since schools are comparable, it is all about what you want to live in now and after your kids are grown and that “walkability factor” (greater in LJ in most areas).
May 29, 2013 at 4:13 PM in reply to: Which public schools are better: Carmel Valley or La Jolla #762280ParticipantHere’s the more recent county schools list (that flyer posted).
http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/Acnt2013/2012Base_Co.aspx?cYear=&cSelect=37,SAN,DIEGO
Participantzzz, I am also female and have sold LOTS of items off CL from my garage, mostly sporting goods. I’ve also had VERY profitable hours-long garage sales with only female help.
Joe and Suzy 6P really just want to go to Big Bear, etc with their kids and can’t afford the ridiculous prices for clothing and equipment which will only fit for a year or two. Or they just need a kid’s bike or old running TV/furniture for their kid’s room or nice electronic X-mas gift (used) which they can’t afford new. They’re REALLY not out to “rob” anybody. Often they bring the kid with them to try the item(s) on!
It’s really okay. The closer your house is to lower-income households, the more successful a CL seller of household goods, clothing, tools and sporting goods will be, IMHO.
I’ve also purchased off of and accompanied other purchasers off CL, UT ads and Reader ads and NEVER had a problem, even after entering sellers’ homes. This is actually a good way to meet interesting people.
It really isn’t that difficult to do either, except for the several extra steps involved in selling a motor vehicle.
Participant[quote=zzz]thx BG, its a 3yr old german car, i negotiated a good deal on it, so its pretty straightforward. i think i can make a quick few grand on it just based on the very low mileage i put on it and there have been very few services required and its required for me to keep maintenance records. good shape, still under warranty. thx for tip on selling it through leaseholder, i haven’t even asked the lender what needs to happen – i think theres some paperwork i need to fill out.
i still dont’ know about having them to come to my house. not worried so much about the car getting stolen – thats why i have insurance right? but as a woman, i don’t know if want someone coming to my house.[/quote]
Have a friend or relative be present with you when you show the vehicle, even if it is only a handy neighbor. If you live alone, get an agreement with a retired or otherwise usually available neighbor to be present when someone comes to view to the car.
In the past when selling my own vehicle thru an ad, I have never seen a buyer come alone. They usually always come with a more knowledgeable friend/relative in tow to look under the hood, chassis and snoop around the dash and interior. Some come with their HS/college-aged or recently divorced kid for whom they are purchasing the vehicle. And others come with a family of six with kids in tow who are tired of driving around :=0.
In the past, I’ve had several buyers come with a few thousand cash in their pockets. This was for vehicles under $4K and before technology made counterfeiting easier. Now, I wouldn’t be able to tell if large bills presented to me ($100 or over) are actually counterfeit and for this reason, would prefer a cashier’s check after I hold a 10% deposit, give a receipt and remove the vehicle from the ad while waiting for the buyer to bring me one. Meanwhile, I would get the bill of sale ready on your agreed-on price and have my title at the ready, or, in your case, make an appt with your leaseholder for you and your buyer to meet at their nearest office after instructing the buyer to make his/her cashier’s check out with both names. In this case, show the buyer a copy of your registration to verify “ownership” and give them the correct spelling of yours and your leaseholder’s names.
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