Student Loan Debt?

[two_bit_score]

Students keep leaving a number of districts here... the cost per student is very high and money voted on to fund school infrastructure often goes to salaries... or frees up other funds to go to salaries...

The only ones benefitting from increases in tax money funding into public schools is the unions and the administrative bureaucracy. The students are left to nurse the hind tit on a scrawny hefier.

 

[Hay Dude]

A.I. DuPont High School was THE public school to attend in the wealthy North Wilmington suburbs for decades. Once charter schools got ahold in the area, attendance dropped in 2015 at the school to the point where they can no longer field a varsity football team. They played in the Delaware state championship for HS football in the early 2000’s. Teaching at the school turned atrocious and the parents took their kids out. Wilmington, DE has “bussing” where the school doesn’t serve the local constituents, it pulls inner city kids out to the suburbs, or could send wealthy suburban kids to inner city schools. You don’t know what school your kids will go to.

5 miles up the road, my wife teaches in a public school that is so well liked, people buy houses in the district just to send their kids there. There’s no bussing. Kids go to their neighborhood school. It’s predictable and stable. However, the real estate taxes are much higher.

It’s really hit & miss with education. There’s plenty of horror stories and theres also some dedicated, hard working teachers out there, too.

 

[lilranch2001]

As a 12 year veteran of the Catholic school system... there are just as many social problems at Catholic schools as public schools. There just isn't as much violence. As for Catholic high school, lots of alcohol and drugs. Always was, still is.

Let’s not forget pediphile priests…

 

[MossRoad]

Maybe dependant on location?

I attended Catholic High School in East Oakland... and it prepared me well for college.

The district public high schools had an abysmal college placement. The Catholic High School in the same neighborhood was 93 percent onto higher education.

My sister in law's fear was indoctrination and she was adamant... I did my best to reassure even saying my Catholic High School Invited Planned Parenthood, the Daughter of Malcom X and others to speak and mass attendance was optional...

One thing they didn't do was support Ritalin for students unlike the public school counterparts...

No experience outside Oakland CA.

In High School I worked the lunch room all 4 years... 3.5 as cafeteria cashier... plenty of opportunities to offset tuition for those willing.

I didn't say they didn't do a great job of education. I just said there were and still are a lot of alcohol and drugs at my old high school. My wife went there, too. So did both of our children. We all took Comparative Religion (took us to other churches, temples, synagogues, mosque, etc). My kids took evolution.

Ritalin decision for children should be between parents and their doctors, not the school.

 

[lilranch2001]

I didn't say they didn't do a great job of education. I just said there were and still are a lot of alcohol and drugs at my old high school. My wife went there, too. So did both of our children. We all took Comparative Religion (took us to other churches, temples, synagogues, mosque, etc). My kids took evolution.

Ritalin decision for children should be between parents and their doctors, not the school.

When I went to Central Catholic, the big thing ws to go to Murphys ( a large department store) and buy cough medicine, never new about codiene untll I saw classmates chugging a bottle of cough medicine

 

[Hay Dude]

One of my younger son's middle-school opponents plays DL for Notre Dame.
Notre Dame is Catholic on the surface. It was Catholic once upon a time.

The real Catholic colleges are not that well known. Ave Maria, St. Mary's, Franciscan of Steubenville and even UDallas are much more Catholic.

My son went to Mount St. Mary’s which is the 2nd oldest Catholic University in the US.

 

[Hay Dude]

I didn't say they didn't do a great job of education. I just said there were and still are a lot of alcohol and drugs at my old high school. My wife went there, too. So did both of our children. We all took Comparative Religion (took us to other churches, temples, synagogues, mosque, etc). My kids took evolution.

Ritalin decision for children should be between parents and their doctors, not the school.

Same with gender confusion issues.

 

[MossRoad]

I don't understand the Dorm requirement that is very much the norm today?

None of my siblings or myself hard the dorm experience or Frats but we all had jobs.

If you take the housing, meal and student health expense from the equation the cost often is significantly reduced to tuition, books and student fees.

Purdue is still under $10K per year tuition. Has been for over a decade.

Room and board or rent is another animal.

When our kids went there they said to expect about $88K for 4 years. The kids chose less expensive dorms and smaller meal plans.

Between us saving $20-25 a week into a 529 plan for both of them since they were young, us giving them $5K per year (the same as Catholic K-12), them working and scholarships, they both got out of 4 year debt free.

Wife and I both make average wages. So it can be done if you plan ahead and knock on wood, don't have any major financial catastrophies.

 

[MossRoad]

I don't understand the Dorm requirement that is very much the norm today?

None of my siblings or myself hard the dorm experience or Frats but we all had jobs.

If you take the housing, meal and student health expense from the equation the cost often is significantly reduced to tuition, books and student fees.

As for the dorm requirement, it's supposed to teach the kids to live in a community.

 

[MossRoad]

Let’s not forget pediphile priests…

Seems like coaches get more press, but yes.