Search results

Great post. I think with a lot of the schools we're talking about here that the greatest advantage isn't to the upper echelon students at all. As you said, those kids were going to excel and get into elite colleges disirregardless of what high school they attended. I think the kids that...

Don't hold me to it as I'm sure there are better sources/alumni of those two schools on here but I think Belen ends up being a little over $20k per year and Columbus is like $12k. I have zero idea how prevalent or generous financial aid is either school. Nonetheless, this is probably "cheap"...

Great points. Sooooo true about the self directed reading. We'd also have an exponentially greater chance with an immeasurable amount of kids if we could just keep them reading at their appropriate grade levels all the way through elementary school.

Coral Reef is a magnet school though, right? I kinda feel like the magnet schools, the charter schools and all other specialty type schools should be separated from the ones that just serve specific geographical areas. Not that Miami-Dade Public Schools doesn't absolutely deserve credit for all...

The thing I don't necessarily get and I alluded to initially are the people that are upper middle class that are spending out the culo for some private school tuition. For example, I know two separate families with three kids each that have paid a ton of money annually to send their kids to...

The specialty/charter type schools in Dade are almost unparalleled in the country as far as the amount of excellent ones concentrated in a single county. I'll defer to you about the other public high schools but I still stand by my Palmetto recommendation as it's the top ranked (take these...

Palmetto. Use the money you're saving by not having to pay for private/parochial school tuition to cover the higher real estate costs within that district. Or to buy a boat.