# of kids=total income?

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# of kids=total income?
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Tue, 07-24-2007 - 10:26pm

How did your household income/potential income influence the number of children in your family? Did you and dh stop at a certain number of kids because you wanted to be able to provide certain things for each child?

Robin

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Registered: 01-12-2004
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 9:28pm

The point being proven was that dance can cost $185 per week!!! A link to any studio that cost more than that proves her point!!

Robin

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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 9:31pm
We don't have a different curriculum for each class, but with different demographics and buildings being built anywhere between the 1930s (oldest two elementary schools) and the 1990s, they are going to be quite different in appearance and in the technology available. We are planning a new elementary school that is going to be very updated in terms of both floor plan, incorporated technology, and even overall design. Why would you build a new school based on what they were doing educationally in the 1970s?
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 9:38pm

I don't think I am understanding your question. What would education and circulum have to do with the year the school was built? We have one school that is very old and one that was just built in 2004. Most of the elementary schools look the same as they were built at the same time or just followed the same layout.
Why would the technology be old? The classrooms might be older but everything has been updated and every classroom has computers and up to date technology.
Maybe I am reading your posts wrong-?

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 9:45pm
I have been in almost all of the elementary schools in my district. They are very different in their layout because they were built in different eras. In some, the classroom walls are movable and you can open up the room so all the fifth grade classrooms, for instance, are in one large room. Some of the buildings are very old and not even air conditioned because their old wiring can't handle that amount of power. The newer buildings are all equipped with WI-FI. The older buildings are not. Some of the buildings are multi-story brick buildings, others are spread out in "pod style" with the office and multi-purpose rooms and stuff in one area and the classrooms radiating off them. The newer buildings have better acoustics and theater-style auditoriums. The older buildings have multi-purpose rooms. They gyms vary in size and equipment. The downtown schools tend to have smaller campuses, less playground space. The richer schools have a lot of parent-donated playground equipment, gardens maintained by parents, stuff like that.
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Registered: 03-12-2005
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 9:51pm
That would be your opinion. It's rather humorous since you know neither my children nor myself. It does reflect your pattern of thought in this thread though.
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Registered: 03-12-2005
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 10:00pm
My neighborhood doesn't have a website, does your's?
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Registered: 03-12-2005
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 10:02pm
What's wrong with the hospitals closer to you?
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Registered: 01-12-2004
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 10:04pm

That's funny. When we do our taxes, we always round to the nearest dollar.

Robin

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Registered: 12-07-2003
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 10:10pm
This is very similar to the school district we live in.


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Registered: 03-12-2005
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 10:15pm
That explains how you think you know what most people would do. Are you aware that there is a whole world outside of LI?

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