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To: fatty who wrote (10896)	6/2/2003 12:49:27 PM
From: Paul Viapiano	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Fatty, I understand and I agree. Things are skewed in many areas. Here in So Cal I live in a very nice midrange-affluent area, but the public schools absolutely suck. For us to get into an area with good public schools (good teachers, good parental participation, high test scores, etc) would mean almost doubling my mortgage AND a 2 1/2 hour commute each way. But, you know the funny thing about it is, several blocks from us the houses are all $1M and up...nice houses with big lots, almost 1/2 acre, etc...and they are in the same school zone as us...same crappy public schools, schools where 70% of the students fail to come up to the 50% grade mark. How can you let your kids go to a school like that? So, the options that remain are parochial schools ($4-5k per year, if I'm not mistaken) or private schools (which start at $7-8k here in LA and go to $14k on the high end.)