# of kids=total income?

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-12-2004
# 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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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:50pm
If you know the city where PA lives, you know that it is one of the most racially and economically diverse cities in the region. Not quite Los Angeles or Houston, but with a Therefore, a school mirroring the local population would be a pretty diverse group. As an indicator of diversity, the ESL program in the district PA's kids would attend serves children coming from 24 different native languages, with Spanish and Vietnamese being about equally represented.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:50pm
I am not cydiluwho. Never have been, never will be.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-24-2007
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:51pm
In essence, she sends her children to a school that is more representative of her children than the local public school.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:51pm

How is my school district racial composition relevant in any way?


FYI, it's less than 93% non-hispanic caucasian.


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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-24-2007
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:51pm
Okay, if you say so.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-12-2005
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:52pm
Where on earth did you come up with that?????
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:52pm
How about economic diversity? What percentage of the children in your local elementary school are on the free or reduced lunch program?
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-24-2007
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:52pm
LOL. The same as mine!
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:53pm
No, she doesn't, but if she did, so what?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 12:55pm

History on your theory please.


PumpkinAngel

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