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I wouldn't have posted this here if we were not in serious discussions about the future.
Like some have pointed out, for that kind of money we could get together with a couple other parents and basically have a private school for our kids. Or we could send our kid to the local public school, and hand her a check for $200,000k when she turns 18.
We got started at the school because the Seattle public schools seem like they are constantly in turmoil. There is a decent school 2 blocks from our house. But she probably cannot get in! She would get sent to a different school 4 miles north of here. Why? Because Seattle keeps failing schools open in the south end of the city that are nearly 50% empty, while the northern schools are bursting at the seams. Hmmmmm.....I wonder why people would be leaving the south end in droves and settling in the North?
The local school has 3 sections of kindergarten this year with 30 kids in each class. No classroom assistants. One month into the school year, one of our friends child's kindergarten teacher sent home an e-mail saying that she was desperate and couldn't handle it without a parental volunteer in the classroom everyday. Another parent told us they got a progress report about their kid, and it was written by one of the parent volunteers. The teacher barely seemed to know their kid.
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