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Old 01-12-2011, 10:02 PM
 
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If you are a couple with no kids and no intention of having any, isn't it best to move to a decent area with worst school districts to save on rent?
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Old 01-14-2011, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Murrieta California
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They have a much higher participation because there is a pool of educated stay at home moms participating in the activities at the school and at home. Not all people in good school districts are wealthy - this is a sweeping generalization. Many people in these areas made a decision to live there regardless of the cost, and many live paycheck to paycheck. In the Bay Area, it's the same way. I've heard stories of 3 families living in a single family home in Cupertino just so their kids can benefit from the school district.

Good districts also attract/retain the more experienced teachers as well. Tenure for teachers in the Poway school district is very high. Essentially you need to wait for someone to retire for a position to open up.
So what is your point? I just said that they are better due to a much higher parent participation in their child's education. That is a fact regardless of the reasons. I don't care about all the other stuff.
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Old 01-16-2011, 04:37 PM
 
Location: Sunny Sandy Ego
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If you are a couple with no kids and no intention of having any, isn't it best to move to a decent area with worst school districts to save on rent?
Many areas with good schools have stable families and less transient/rental areas, who usually want to lay roots down and do better jobs maintaining their property and respecting others, thus better area to live in general But, due to those reasons, these areas cost more...think Mello-Roos.

Better educated kids usually extends to better behaved kids. This mirrors the socio-economic divide as well.

My wife and I are not planning to have kids, and are currently house hunting. For instance, we just looked at houses in Sorrento Valley vs Carmel Valley. The Sorrento houses are newer, larger, but not much around it other than industry and kids goto the Mira Mesa school district. The Carmel Valley house of equivalent price is older, smaller, has higher HOAs, closer to amenities and kids goto a stonger school district supposedly.

If we were planning to lay roots down, we would probably choose Sorrento Valley, but for the fact that we can't predict past 10 years, we are also considering West Carmel Valley due to the potential that we might want to rent out the house or sell it.
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Old 01-17-2011, 02:29 PM
 
Location: Murrieta California
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I worked in Sorrento Valley for several years. Is there any reason why you would not consider Rancho Bernardo, Poway, or Penasquitos which are all in the very good Poway school district? I lived in Poway for 18 years and our son went to school there.
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Old 06-14-2016, 01:03 PM
 
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The ranking is based on grades. Wealthy parents know to get ahead, they teach their kids probably as much as the school does which gives the school a better ranking than perhaps it deserves. Many Asain parents consider a B to be a failing grade so again it's the parents. Perhaps the #1 problem is you can't fire bad teachers! If they meet a very low standard they can hang around for thirty years. It can cost as much as $250,000 to fire a bad teacher. The public school system is a monopoly and like all monopolies, they are bloated over-priced and inefficient.
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