Any one move to Pitts from So.Cali? (Lebanon, Upper St. Clair: fit in, houses)

[JoeP]

Well, everyone thinks Omaha is some little cow town on the Great Plains. My cousin from Pgh thought it was a state. Per city-data: Omaha, pop. 390,007; Pittsburgh, 334,563. Pittsburgh's population has shrunk since that was published, and Omaha's has grown.

I am not saying that it is a cow town. Did you read my comment? My point is that city populations are totally irrelevant.

[guylocke]

I know it because it's all I hear about when i'm with my friends. I'm not sure if there's some big stats organization that has documented it. I know it because my friends, education majors trying to get employed, talk about these things everyday. My one friend didn't have his application accepted at North Hills because he didn't have a 4.0, would you like his and their personal home number? CALL NORTH HILLS school district if you really want to find out if it's true.

They live and breath these things, it's their life, it's their career.

THEY KNOW.

Just because some organization doesn't easily catalog, reference, or alphabetize the facts and put them on goodle doesn't mean they aren't true.. and I imagine they ARE easily found. Just call North Hills.

My god, what is this crusade you have against Pittsburgh.

[subdivisions]

Originally Posted by boylocke

I know it because it's all I hear about when i'm with my friends. I'm not sure if there's some big stats organization that has documented it. I know it because my friends, education majors trying to get employed, talk about these things everyday. My one friend didn't have his application accepted at North Hill because he didn't have a 4.0. CALL NORTH HILLS school district if you really want to find out if it's true.

They live and breath these things here, it's their life, it's their career.

THEY KNOW.

Just because some organization doesn't easily catalog, reference, or alphabatize the facts doesn't mean they aren't true.. and I imagine they ARE easily found. Just call North Hills.

Even if you did provide a link, she'd just dismiss it by saying "you can lie with statistics". (Unless, of course, you provided statistics showing how crappy Pittsburgh is - those would undoubtably be true and unbiased... )

[guylocke]

LOL How funny and so true

[claremarie]

I have personal experience with the North Hills School District, so there's no need to call! They don't NEED any more teachers, because they are closing schools. They are closing schools because of declining population. The school-age population is declining in Ross and West View because young families are NOT moving into the area. Those are the facts. This is not a highly sought-after school district that hires only the cream of the crop as teachers. Your friends with the education majors need to understand that areas with lots of senior citizens and fewer young families don't have a high demand for teachers. Surely they researched those factors before deciding to major in education?

[RachelleP]

Thank you Boylocke :-)
Hearing from someone that loves Pittsburgh is in my opinion the best opinion to hear.Not that I don't want to know all of the facts but even facts can be taken different ways.So,thank you again and also for the offer to show us around...very kind of you.We may just take you up on it :-)

[guylocke]

Read my thread on Pittsburgh Misconceptions, it'll show my love for the city. And it would be my pleasure to show you around. I'm a young male, getting my doctorate in Pharmacy at Duquesne, and I've lived downtown for over five years now.

I know a lot of the ins and outs of Pittsburgh and don't hesitate at all to call in that favor.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by Pittnurse

And no, I wouldn't want them going to a school that was getting smaller through people moving out.

I have no idea where you're getting your statistics, but many of the Pittsburgh area school districts are growing so much that there isn't enough room to accomodate the students. The districts are starting to move 4th through 6th grades out of the elementary schools to make room for the larger population of students for grades k-3. These are buildings that managed to educate the babyboomer population and there's not enough room for today's students.

Originally Posted by pittnurse70

The quality is bound to go down.

That's quite a slipperly slope logical fallacy!

[claremarie]

Just curious -- which school districts are experiencing this great growth in the Pittsburgh area? I know that North Hills is planning to close three of its seven elementary schools, and that it has already moved its middle school students into one of the former high school buildings.
So -- are these growing districts located in areas with lots of new construction, or are they older districts that are beginning to recover from declining enrollments during the 1970s-1990s?

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by claremarie

Just curious -- which school districts are experiencing this great growth in the Pittsburgh area? I know that North Hills is planning to close three of its seven elementary schools, and that it has already moved its middle school students into one of the former high school buildings.
So -- are these growing districts located in areas with lots of new construction, or are they older districts that are beginning to recover from declining enrollments during the 1970s-1990s?

Kids from Midland, PA now go to high school in OHIO!