# 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: 03-12-2005
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 1:51pm
Why would someone have to experience paying the money at the school to know that the school is expensive?
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 1:53pm
I never said that my neighborhood was perfect as anyone's is but we have one bad apple unfortunately around the block, not right next door. Our school system is very good and there is no reason to have to send a child to private school. We have high quality schools, hospitals and other resources that you don't have to go too far out of your backyard to go to anything.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 1:55pm

<<I showed you a link to the dance studio I used for summer classes. >>


You mean the summer classes that don't happen in your area? I don't recall an actual web address...I saw where you cut/pasted something, but an actual link to a website?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 1:55pm

I live in an upper middle class area and dd goes to a public school. Some other people send their kids to private schools. There are a variety of reasons, here are a few:

1)smaller class size

2)specific programs (such as very intense theater or music programs) that are more involved than what the public school offers

3)language immersion (my neighbors)

4)nostalgia/tradition (a parent went to the same school and has fond memories)

5)to get away from NCLB- to have teachers not constrained by NCLB's educational straitjacket

6)because the local schools aren't doing too well

7)because the student has an educational need that is better addressed in a private setting (I've seen ads for schools that are set up for kids with learning disabilities, for example)

Not that pumpkinangel's reason even appears on that list (may or may not, it's not an exhaustive list), but I did want to show that there is no reason to assume that use of private schools is disguised minority avoidance.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 1:56pm

You are correct.....


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-12-2005
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 1:58pm

I guess I just don't mind going too far out of my backyard.

The most quality hospitals in our area are in the inner city. We live within 20 minutes of one of the top 10 hospitals in the nation. I don't mind driving there to get better quality care for my family.

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Registered: 06-17-2003
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 1:59pm
All of the schools my children attend or will attend (I have rising 10th, 6th, and 4th graders) do not have caucasians as the majority, and I am more then happy with the quality of their education.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:04pm

Quality can mean different things to different people (though I would never make the assumption that it could ever mean "mostly white" as has been hinted at). My nice area has some programs that are of fine quality for recreational use.

If I were to enroll dd in a particular activity, my idea of "quality" would be a very small class size and a teacher who is gentle and patient. Another parent may not see that as quality and would be willing to drive 45 minutes to find a teacher who was renowned and had a reputation for teaching kids so well they can be competitive. Neither of these differing definitions of qauliy has anything to do with income, "niceness" of neighborhood or, (it shouldn't have to be said), race.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:04pm

So I am guessing you don't have a link to the claim you made about my comments?


<<My children are not in baseball and that is why I can't go into details but I do know the leagues and where they practice and play AND, like yourself, have friends and family in these activities who have told me about their schedules. >>


Wait a minute, you told me earlier that if you were not actually involved that I couldn't possibly know what goes on....now you do know what goes on in something your children aren't involved in simply because you have friends involved?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-17-2003
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:05pm
Well I've driven my children to fields an hour away for soccer games. And that's for recreation league soccer within our county.


Edited 7/27/2007 2:15 pm ET by single_mom_of_3

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