Your kids may be okay, but if they have plans to go to college and leave the town, they will be on the sidelines as well. If that town of 5000 is anything like my hometown of 5000, you will NEVER fit in. Ultimately none of this is irreversible, we don’t know our kids’ personalities yet because they’re too young, and half of it will probably come down to money, but I’m curious if anyone had insight on what we should take into consideration or wanted to share your experiences! I’m probably idealizing the rural experience a little too much, but I hate to wind up in the same swim-tennis cycle of our parents. That’s why I went to my fancy college, after all, and I excelled there. On the other hand, my dad has been making a good point about the value of being surrounded by smart, ambitious people. I don’t know, maybe it would be better to be valedictorian of a tiny school than to be fighting for a spot on the robotics team. I admit the school districts are excellent, but I’m concerned they’d be more of a pressure cooker… when EVERYONE’S parents are expecting them to go to either the best public college in the state or an Ivy, I’m concerned it would be hard to stand out and make them feel competitive with their peers. My husband quite likes the cushy suburban life and my parents have been encouraging us to move to the fancier side of our current college town, where all of the university professors live and send their kids to school. I’m a little concerned about diversity… tiny midwestern towns tend to be quite white. And since my husband and I are both pretty high achievers and familiar with the processes of higher education and the working world, I’m not as concerned as the weekend thread poster about setting our kids back because they won’t know about internships or more prestigious colleges– we’d be able to guide them there. But on the other hand, I think a small town would be an opportunity to be part of a closer, better-knit community than the big anonymous suburbs. I’m looking at homes in villages where the entire population is 5,000. Our huge high schools had the disadvantage of being easy to get lost in, but there was also a pretty fair opportunity to find your “people” since I had about 700 people in just my graduating class. This would entail our children (now preschool age) growing up in a very different school and community environment than my husband and I had– extremely small class sizes, probably limited availability of gifted programs, and a lot more exposure to things like agriculture. I don’t particularly like the suburban life and would rather move farther out to one of the very small surrounding villages. We now live in a college town in the midwest.
#Wale the gifted track listing full#
Husband went to big state school on a full scholarship, I went to the state’s fancy private college on a medium scholarship. Our high schools were very large and moderately diverse, though because we were on advanced college prep tracks, we had smaller groups of acquaintances who were in almost all of our classes. We had a great school district with a lot of AP options, clubs, band, etc. My husband and I are both from upper-middle-class suburbs of a very large southern city. A comment on an earlier thread about high school got me thinking about a choice my husband and I will be making in the next year, and I’m curious what the hive thinks.
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