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Old 05-04-2011, 06:09 PM
 
Location: Spring Hill Florida
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

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I think the schools here are nothing but daycare centers for teenagers.
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Old 05-04-2011, 06:11 PM
 
Location: Spring Hill Florida
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Great for you. Me too. However many of my schoolmates took buses and trains to get to school as they lived in neighborhoods quite distant from the school. Haven't you ever watched "everybody hates chris"?


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What about busing around here? I lived 10 minutes away from Greco Middle School but had to go to Williams. What do you think magnet schools are? Even relatives I know that work for the school board tell me they are nothing but a way to get smarter students into low income neighborhoods.

Growing up in NYC we always attended the school closest to where we lived.
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Old 05-04-2011, 06:12 PM
 
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Most of the people I know that have ever been to the high school I went to feel the same way. When I was there our lunch break was over an hour and we got out earlier than some of the other schools did. Ridiculous.
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Old 05-04-2011, 06:16 PM
 
Location: tampa bay
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What about busing around here? I lived 10 minutes away from Greco Middle School but had to go to Williams. What do you think magnet schools are? Even relatives I know that work for the school board tell me they are nothing but a way to get smarter students into low income neighborhoods.

Growing up in NYC we always attended the school closest to where we lived.
Yes I was able to attend Bayside High but it wasn't worth my safety as a young girl !My husband grew up in Coney Island and went to Lincoln but he had problems with his classmates! One of his younger twin sisters was hassled so badly she got her GED, the other twin kicked some butt in freshmen year and was left alone!! So while technically you are correct, in all practical manners you are not.
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Old 05-04-2011, 06:19 PM
 
Location: tampa bay
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Great for you. Me too. However many of my schoolmates took buses and trains to get to school as they lived in neighborhoods quite distant from the school. Haven't you ever watched "everybody hates chris"?
That's what's so dumb about busing. Kids from the Bronx and Jamaica sat hours on a bus everyday !
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Old 05-04-2011, 06:20 PM
 
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Yes I was able to attend Bayside High but it wasn't worth my safety as a young girl !My husband grew up in Coney Island and went to Lincoln but he had problems with his classmates! One of his younger twin sisters was hassled so badly she got her GED, the other twin kicked some butt in freshmen year and was left alone!! So while technically you are correct, in all practical manners you are not.
Well we always lived in neighborhoods in NYC that had great schools. We did have to take a school bus to one of them but it was a short 10 minute ride.
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Old 05-04-2011, 06:29 PM
 
Location: tampa bay
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Well we always lived in neighborhoods in NYC that had great schools. We did have to take a school bus to one of them but it was a short 10 minute ride.
My point is Bayside Queens was/is a great area in NYC to live in, unfortunately the high school... not so much! I was lucky enough to have parents that were able to send me to a private prep school but I attended a SUNY college and it was great!! Cardozza Highschool on the other side of Bayside was a good school but I couldn't go there! Ironic!
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Old 05-04-2011, 06:46 PM
 
Location: Denver
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I look at foreclosures in my spare time. I am also prone to 'paralysis of analysis' at times.....I like my charts and graphs.

I use trulia.com to find how the local schools are rated and how far away they are. Also tells me about neighborhood home values. Zillow.com tells me about tax assessment history and previous sale prices.

If you can live anywhere, you can currently buy a beautiful home for less than $100,000 in Lee County....Fort Myers/Cape Coral/Lehigh Acres.

I consider Florida people to be a bit rude but more pleasant than you are accustomed to. Things are generally friendlier in the west.

At least Floridians are not still fighting the Civil War as other areas of the south are. But I'd probably do the same.
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Old 05-04-2011, 06:46 PM
 
Location: Spring Hill Florida
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The problem with busing was that kids from not so great neighborhoods with not so great schools got bussed to the better neighborhoods and better schools.


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Well we always lived in neighborhoods in NYC that had great schools. We did have to take a school bus to one of them but it was a short 10 minute ride.
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Old 05-04-2011, 06:47 PM
 
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The problem with busing was that kids from not so great neighborhoods with not so great schools got bussed to the better neighborhoods and better schools.
Not where I lived. But hey that's exactly what goes on here.
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