I read that article when it was published it made me a bit angry but also Film school folks should know better. Big picture the whole education racket really has me confused. I have no idea how to help optimize outcomes for my kid. The rules keep changing and the equity drive is causing some really wierd incentives. My wife and I were planning to move out of Seattle to kenmore so our 4 year old wouldn’t have to go to SPS when she went to kindergarten. I honestly don’t know if that’s enough and we should just send her to private school. That being said I can’t exactly find a lot of good options in that realm either. When she’s ready for high school we will have to again figure out if we need to move to work the admission system out of we prioritize quality of education. It’s super annoying and difficult to navigate. What are you doing for your kid?
We started our kid at an IB nonprofit when she was four because it was like $20 a month more expensive than daycare. They go through eighth grade; it works out to like $12k a year which we can afford. We also tested her into the Edmonds school district challenge program but opted out of that because their approach seemed to be pure short bus nerf helmet cloister the nerds for their safety. You're right, though - the King County private schools are dumbly expensive. Jeff Selingo has written three books about how dumb college is and how to navigate the stupidity. I've read two. He used to help put together the US News & World Report list, and will explain to you chapter and verse what a terrible metric it is and how badly it has fucked things up. He was also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Higher Ed before he went rogue. "Selingo" is a statistically-relevant search term on this website. My "a ha" moment was when I ran through a calculator that told me how much I needed to set aside for my kid's college when she was like seven months old. I shot the moon and said "maybe it takes her an extra semester to finish her private out-of-state bachelor's degree" and the the calculator said "maybe set aside $1800 a month starting right now 'cuz your kid's degree is gonna cost over a million dollars by the time she earns it." That's about when I started pricing Subway franchises and determined that a half-dozen fast food restaurants would probably serve her better than an English degree from Reed or whatever. And I can't be the only person doing that calculation. So I figured whatever is going on now won't be going on then and a whole bunch of people older than my kid get to go through the meat grinder to figure out what happens next. And all the data above indicates that the bowl is filling with hamburger.