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• On 9 Aug 2011 in Why Pay House Premium "for Schools" Instead of Private Schooling?, avpmenlo said:

  HW-
  Probably a portion, but definitely not all of it! At least not where I am with my rent!

• On 9 Aug 2011 in Why Pay House Premium "for Schools" Instead of Private Schooling?, avpmenlo said:

  ja-

  You're forgetting to add in the increase in property tax to your public school "tuition."

  For example:
  $1.8M Palo Alto home yields approx. $18-20K/year prop tax
  $800K Redwood City home yields appr. $8-10K/year prop tax

  So not only are you paying a $1M premium for the PA schools, you also get to pay an extra $10K+/year in prop tax to live in the PA school district. So the premium actually turns into somewhere between $1-1.3M for a good public school education. That amount would far exceed private schooling, even for multiple children in our area if you chose to live in one of the nicer areas of Redwood City.

  That's not even taking into consideration the "optional" (/required) donation per child required by most of the good school districts.

  Seems like the best plan is to rent in a good school district and let someone else pay the property tax, or buy a lower priced condo in a good school district like Sharon Heights in Menlo Park with access to Las Lomitas School District.

• On 2 Aug 2011 in Why Pay House Premium "for Schools" Instead of Private Schooling?, avpmenlo said:

  corntrollio,
  We are technically a "brown" family, and the private school that I transferred my sons to has plnty of "brown" families. I never even mentioned a color in any of my posts. Jumping to conclusions?

  We pulled our sons when they were in 3rd, 5th and 7th from the schools and yes, my oldest son actually saw (as did many other students) other boys smoking pot AT Hillview. During school hours. The kids were caught, and served a small detention.

  Spoke with my friend whose son stayed at Hillview and the same bunch of kids were caught twice again this year. They all graduated in June.