San Diego city Schools have some great school. (Poway, San Carlos: real estate, neighborhoods)

[hitman619]

So why is everybody so quick to bash San Diego City School district?
Everyone's always quick to point out Poway Unified,but San Diego city schools has some really good schools also!

[NYSD1995]

There are many good elementaries in SDUSD but very few High Schools that are good. And even if you are in a good school, you never know if your great school is going to be great in two years unless you live in an area immune to demographic change like Mission Hills or San Carlos. And pray you're not too close to a crappy neighborhood, because those kids are eventually coming to your school instead of the one in their neighborhood.

San Diego Unified is in constant financial chaos. They have threatened to lay off teachers or close schools every few years for almost 10 years at this point.

They bus kids from here to there, they close programs and open them in other schools, constantly are shuffling, changing, messing with programs and schools.

They have built literally 2 new schools not attached to real estate development the last 20 years, overcrowded and underfunded the day the opened (Lincoln, Sherman elementary). Most of the schools are the same exact facilities that were built in the 50's. No ballfields, trailers used for classrooms. Primitive stuff.

If you're a parent with a kid in SDUSD you spend every few years organizing other parents to keep them from busing in more kids from the ghetto, or your school closing, or your program changing, or your kid getting bussed elsewhere.

The district has a long history of being poorly run, unpredictable, and low performing.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by Sassberto

There are many good elementaries in SDUSD but very few High Schools that are good. And even if you are in a good school, you never know if your great school is going to be great in two years unless you live in an area immune to demographic change like Mission Hills or San Carlos. And pray you're not too close to a crappy neighborhood, because those kids are eventually coming to your school instead of the one in their neighborhood.

San Diego Unified is in constant financial chaos. They have threatened to lay off teachers or close schools every few years for almost 10 years at this point.

They bus kids from here to there, they close programs and open them in other schools, constantly are shuffling, changing, messing with programs and schools.

They have built literally 2 new schools not attached to real estate development the last 20 years, overcrowded and underfunded the day the opened (Lincoln, Sherman elementary). Most of the schools are the same exact facilities that were built in the 50's. No ballfields, trailers used for classrooms. Primitive stuff.

If you're a parent with a kid in SDUSD you spend every few years organizing other parents to keep them from busing in more kids from the ghetto, or your school closing, or your program changing, or your kid getting bussed elsewhere.

The district has a long history of being poorly run, unpredictable, and low performing.

What he said, all true! Busing has stopped for now but as soon as there is a hint of money I'm sure they will be doing it again. To the demise of the neighborhoods they are getting bused into.

[bloom]

Originally Posted by Sassberto

And pray you're not too close to a crappy neighborhood, because those kids are eventually coming to your school instead of the one in their neighborhood.


They bus kids from here to there,


If you're a parent with a kid in SDUSD you spend every few years organizing other parents to keep them from busing in more kids from the ghetto, or your kid getting bussed elsewhere.

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Your point?

[MovingAloha]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

What he said, all true! Busing has stopped for now but as soon as there is a hint of money I'm sure they will be doing it again. To the demise of the neighborhoods they are getting bused into.

So the kids that were being bussed are now going back to their neighborhood schools or having to find their own way to school?

I've been tracking the SDUSD for a few years since I have an 11 year old I must worry about; and it appears to me, that folks bad mouth them, but I do notice, Mira Mesa, Point Loma, Henry, Scripps, University and Serra to a lesser extent seem to be ranked decently. I also noticed that Carriera, De Portola, Lewis, Challenger, Marshall and a few other Middle schools score very well and they are all public not charter and not Magnet.

I'm looking very closely at the areas of Point Loma, Tierrasanta and Del Cerro as my future home, which is why I'm following the school situation so closely.

[NYSD1995]

Originally Posted by bloom

Your point?

What you see is not what you get. You spend 600k for that cute vintage neighborhood and then end up with crappy schools. It's no wonder folks tolerate living in places like Poway, at least you have a fighting chance of your kids school being generally the same experience all the way from K-12

[hitman619]

Originally Posted by MovingAloha

So the kids that were being bussed are now going back to their neighborhood schools or having to find their own way to school?

I've been tracking the SDUSD for a few years since I have an 11 year old I must worry about; and it appears to me, that folks bad mouth them, but I do notice, Mira Mesa, Point Loma, Henry, Scripps, University and Serra to a lesser extent seem to be ranked decently. I also noticed that Carriera, De Portola, Lewis, Challenger, Marshall and a few other Middle schools score very well and they are all public not charter and not Magnet.

I'm looking very closely at the areas of Point Loma, Tierrasanta and Del Cerro as my future home, which is why I'm following the school situation so closely.

This^^^
and in some cases the schools you mentioned above have more kids bused in there than local kids.
So it's not always true that bused kids are a problem.

My second youngest attends Lewis jr high school,and im very happy with the school so far.

[SDHome]

The biggest problem I've experienced with San Diego schools is the constant shuffling mentioned earlier. Our school lost two wonderful teachers this year due to shuffling after the school year had already started. It's hard on the kids. Unfortunately, it's not the school's fault, nor is it in their control, so it can happen anywhere in the district.

[moved]

Needless to say that the employees are continually in limbo, not knowing if they're going to have a job or not.

[Aquagoth]

I live in University City. My daughter has always gone to UC schools. I'm happy with the education she's getting. They're good schools with good teachers. So maybe look into that neighborhood as well. Pepare to get irked by people from other neighborhoods playing residency games so their kids can go to UC schools instead of the ones in their neighborhood, (people from Clairemont are notorious for this), and, as already mentioned, bussing brings in undesirable kids, but the bussing seems to have died down some.