How do we know they are “good” schools? Were are the controlled studies that separate that which is learned outside of the classroom due to “afterschooling” and that which is really learned in the classroom?
Perhaps when we see good standardize achievement scores what is **really** being measured is the amount of “afterschooling”!
Honestly...Parents go to tremendous expense to buy higher end housing and suffer long commutes for so-called “good” schools. The schools may NOT be “good”. The parents in these communities could simply be good “afterschoolers”.
We had to after school my kids for 3-5 hour a day. Now we homeschool for 3-5 hours a day with out the public school. My kids are now 1 1/2 to 3 years ahead of the public school. Depends on which one you look at as to where they are.
Our area is now getting the junk from Detroit moving in. Loud, obnoxious, so stuck on them selves, pants on their ankles sort and I may have to leave. This doesn’t account for the gay crowd, drug crowd, and the criminal element that is moving in to.
Along with this we are getting more liberal laws and attitudes that foster a poor community atmosphere.
There is a school district in our area that families were sacrificing to move into because of its academic reputation.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t been 10 years since this movement began,
and that very school system has had to institute measures to prevent the spread of “oral STDs” because of a sexually aggressive female culture that has been cultivated in this school district.
No thanks. I’ll keep my kids under the eye of people that care most about them and their education.