CSD Tuition Spots Available
Decatur Metro | June 22, 2010From the City Schools of Decatur…
City Schools of Decatur offers families a choice in public education. Families living in areas not served by the City Schools of Decatur may choose to apply for tuition slots for the 2010-2011 school year. City Schools of Decatur offers a rigorous, engaging program of study for children in grades pre-Kindergarten through grade 12.
Pre-Kindergarten is handled separately through the College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center. All questions regarding the possibility of pre-Kindergarten paying tuition should be directed to Suzanne Kennedy, Principal (skennedy@csdecatur.net).
City Schools of Decatur accepted tuition applications from March 1 – April 2, 2010. As of June 22, 2010, spots remain in Grades 7, 8, 11, and 12. CSD will accept applications until July 15.
Tuition Fees for 2010-2011: Tuition for students in preK-12 will be $569 x 10 months.
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Free Westchester!
Ooooooh. There’s a great idea. Re-open Westchester as an all-tuition school! Get our tax money’s worth out of the unused gym, cafeteria, playground, and renovated classrooms!
How the hell can we have tuition spots and TRAILERS!
Cash?
The spots are in the middle and high school. My understanding is that there are no spots whatsoever in K-5.
so who moved?
Probably the only “moving” was parents moving their kids from public to private schools, rather than out of Decatur…
Also the huge bulge of children that we alll told CSD about when they were age 0-2 is just moving out of elementary school so that middle school and high school haven’t been affected yet. They will be but should be able to handle the bulge, if I understand correctly. But tuition spots may dry up.
Two points:
1. It’s probably a good thing that some residents move their kids into private schools. They still pay school taxes after all and class size goes down as a result. Imagine what would happen if they came back to public schools all at once.
2. Only $5690 a year for tuition?! Sounds like CSD is leaving money on the table. Next door at CRCT-challenged APS the bill is more than $10,000. Dollar for education dollar CSD seems a downright steal.
You’re right, it is a good deal, but there is no guarantee you can get your kid in from one year to the next, so i wouldn’t want that sort of uncertainty for my kids.
I think the tuition spots will definitely dry up, as may the courtesy tuition spots for CSD employees’ kids. Unless, of course, we FREE WESTCHESTER.
Re some residents moving their kids into private schools: I agree that in the short run, it’s good because CSD doesn’t have the immediate capacity to educate all of their kids. But in the long run, I think that the high proportion of kids who go to private school in the South compared to the most of the rest of the country (except large urban cities) is unfortunate. Private schools divert a lot of parent and community energy away from our nation’s investment in public school. Mind you, I am not saying that parents shouldn’t have the choice of private school and there’s some good reasons for choosing one–for a religious school, one devoted to special needs, a same sex school, language immersion, etc. But it’s sad if it’s just because the public schools don’t rate or private schools have become a status symbol like a nice car.
As of June 22, 2010, spots remain in Grades 7, 8, 11, and 12.
Since trailers are only in pre-K and K-3 schools, apparently some of you did not read carefully enough?
Well, since I was being sarcastic and I am very actively involved at College Heights, I probably did read it.
CSD might need to accept all the tuition it can get, because something tells me that local tax receipts are going to plummet even further. And that something is the fact that the housing bubble hasn’t burst:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Newhome-sales-plunge-33-pct-apf-1718773153.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=2&asset=&ccode=
In short, our homes are likley worth a lot less than we think they are.
Scary stuff, but Decatur doesn’t have that many new home sales anymore. Most of the new home sales last year were from Phase 2 of the Artisan.
Here’s a blurb from The Atlantic about existing home sales that provides a bit more info…
“It’s actually better for the housing market if buyers focus on draining the inventory of existing homes before building more new ones. Yet, the MBA data casts doubt on whether there’s much demand in that aspect of the market either. Although existing homes sales only fell slightly in May, by 2%, that was much worse than the 5% rise in sales economists expected. It also doesn’t fully take the housing credit’s absence into account. We won’t see how demand for existing home purchases has changed without the credit until July.”