Private Education and College!

I have my background in Child Development with emphasis on Public Policy and Resarch, which means I have spent many many hours looking at policies such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). NCLB is the most devestating policy our public education system has ever seen, on par with the segregation of schools. How can that be, well without going into to much depth NCLB will end with the privatization of education. Schools in poor districts will never be able to meet all the goals of NCLB, because it is imposable to have a 100% average, which is what NCLB will eventually ask of our schools. NCLB also means teachers have stoped encouraging learning, and growth for test readyness. What all of this amounts to is that we are facing a generation of children who will not only have a shorter life exspectancy but will aslo be stupider than thier parents. That simply isn't acceptable for my child!

So it is with a heavy heart that we started considering private education, or moving (we currently live in a working middle class area) to a much higher income area. Both of these would be a huge finachial burden on our family. I am currently a SAHM and either of these would mean we would need two incomes and even then we are doubtful we could make moving work. It would be doable if we continued to rent for the rest of our life but both of us would love to be home owners one day as well. As always there just isn't enough money to do all the things we want and dreamed of. Tack on 4 (maybe 5) years at college for a BA/BS and we are talking about lots of money going to education! Now times it by 2 and we would be drownding in debt and working till we were 100. That just isn't the kind of life we want to live or the kind of life we want to provide for our children.

It is just one more reason to think about being one and done.