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My newly college graduated daughter is moving to Charlotte to teach at Ranson Middle School. She wants to live very near downtown. She has a limited budget ($500-650) and no roommate (she is searching Craig's list for "roommates needed" however). She also wants to np e close to her school (NOT the suburbs). Where do we look? All the apartments that she can afford have scary reviews online! We need to find a place ASAP as she is moving beginning if August. Help!
Crickets - says it all. I'll bring the hard truth.
$650 isn't going to get her in a decent place near downtown. Where do "we" look should become where does "she" look. She's grown now and about to get a lesson in compromising. She should probably put the suburbs back on the table.
Also, she should definitely stay away from bad areas and unfortunately for her budget, unless she picks suburbs or finds a good roommate, she will run into problems.
Ranson Middle School is not in a good area (though if she want to take the challenge of teaching there, she should go for it, understanding that the school has a high poverty rate). She should look on Craigslist for roommates - perhaps one of the complexes around Northlake Mall, or in one of the nicer city neighborhoods - Elizabeth, Plaza Midwood, Commonwealth.
Posters are not being helpful at all here. Plenty of people work and live in low income minority areas and nothing happens to them. My daughter goes to a magnet school along Beatties Ford Road - nothing has ever happened to the students there. Will teaching at Ranson be challenging - yes no doubt, but not dangerous. It's about 75% black, 14% hispanic and 3% white (in 2010). There are many motivated students in every school - it's not all troublemakers. Really the most important thing is the Principal. Is anybody here even aware that Ranson has a magnet IB program and that some people actually choose to go there?
Really the most important thing is the Principal. Is anybody here even aware that Ranson has a magnet IB program and that some people actually choose to go there?
Actually, the most important is the parents. Way more important than any administrator.
The harsh reality is that a high poverty school is high poverty for a reason. Parents. Either lack of education or lack of motivation. Neither of which bode well for the student.
And that's a fact, Jack!
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