Well, I've given up a comfortable retirement to afford housing in a "top" public school district, but I pulled her out of private school that cost $20k per year when we moved, and public school is quite frankly much better. Sure there are more slackers here who will fall off the bottom of the scale, but she's having a great time and actually learning exactly what she needs to succeed in a top college too.
Oh, and she *loves* math!
All I'm hoping now is that she continues to want to go to UCLA rather than Stanford, because otherwise I'll have to forget about retirement completely....
I'm glad I'm able to afford this because obviously what happens to kids is entirely based on the school and has nothing to do with parenting.
Moving back on topic though: it's also been my experience that school districts where there is any pressure to stifle Evolution consider the quality of teaching of *all* subjects to be secondary in importance. In our district, there are a lot of McCain voters but not even a whisper about Evolution: they're more interested in making sure their kids get into Cal or Stanford....
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education,
Buffy
