Comments on: CSD Tuition Spots Available

By: nelliebelle1197

nelliebelle1197 — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:05:54 +0000

Well, since I was being sarcastic and I am very actively involved at College Heights, I probably did read it.

By: "Naaman" Gibbets

"Naaman" Gibbets — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:17:52 +0000

Cash?

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:30:23 +0000

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."

By: DEM

DEM — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:29:52 +0000

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.

By: karass

karass — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:38:40 +0000

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.