Mak- In all honesty I cannot figure out why they would want to come to our district. Maybe because the schools are smaller? The districts are ranked within one point of each other. It is pretty much apples to apples on quality.


Quote Originally Posted by Irulan View Post
honestly, why do you care so much? Unless somehow the students themselves are being affected in a negative manner isn't it really none of your business where they live or how they get there? If it's a case of you paying more taxes than their parents do, and therefore their kids don't deserve to be there... that smacks of elistism I am sorry to say.

Couldn't tell you why I care, I don't have kids, can't do a flipping thing about my taxes. I guess it really is no different if all their parents pay to my district or not, I am still at this point in my life paying for other people's kids since I have none of my own. The only negative thing I can think of is 170 kids is a lot to accomodate in our district and therefore it could in theory negatively affect student-teacher ratios.

But I wouldn't say it is elitism, my house is less expensive than the cheapest house in the neighborhood. So if it were percentage based, yeah I pay more but I chose to live here. We could have afforded a house in that neighborhood but I couldn't ride out my door and that is worth more than gold to us. So jealousy that they have nicer homes isn't it either.

Truly I could care less where the kids come from but I was surprised there is no fee involved and our district would allow so many transfers. My district I went to high school in charged $500 for out of district transfers and $100 for in district transfers. I thought this was the norm and wondered why on earth our schools didn't do that as well.