OMG! I cannot believe how innocently delusional we were all back then. Jessica McClintock and Gunne Sax! Living in San Francisco, I could get the samples and irregulars at the warehouse for dirt cheap. There were actually sewing factories in San Francisco’s south of Market back then. I never paid full price for…

That looks awesome! I will definitely check it out!!

I read that as $7.30/hour and I still thought it was a reasonable rate.

So many women think it's the delivery that causes these issues but it's really the pregnancy.

Thank you for this small but welcome bit of myth-busting. I always wonder where people get this idea, as if having a C-section protects the pelvis from the entire third trimester of baby weight.

I have a special needs kid that attends an “exclusive” private elementary school in Los Angeles. Annual tuition and fees run 40k+. On top of that the school constantly & clumsily phones for donations. Ugh.

Urban Baby is my guilty pleasure.

I don’t have kids, but we’re trying. And we live in LA. The horror stories I hear about these kinds of schools and the public schools make me seriously consider homeschooling.

I live in a Denver suburb, and the school charges $300 per kid for these types of expenses. They also started charging to ride the school bus, which is insane to me.

and that’s how the one percent make more one percenters. sigh

yup. Mu kid went to one of those, and you are right It was still LAUSD, with some tenured teachers who were AWFUL, and tons and tons of standardixed testing starting in kindegarten.

I really do not get the antagonistic that private school administrations have from parents and parent organizations.

Wow.

They aren’t great, but I’m not sure they’re $850K before age 18 bad.

New York

I lived in SF and one of the biggest reasons we moved away was that our neighborhood school was terrible and private school would be $1800 a month. We were prepared to swallow hard and do it but then our rent went from $3200 to $5000 a month, and it was like, fuck this.

*snort*

Silverlake, unlike the westside, has decent public schools (as does eagle Rock), and a much more inclusive community, despite the wackos at this particular over-priced preschool. Have lived here for years, kids went to the other r good public elementary school (not Ivanhoe). And there are a dozen or more Camelot type…

That is unbelievable. I mean, to spend close to a million dollars just to get your kids through high school sound ridiculous. So tell me, is it necessary to send them to private school? Are the L.A. public schools bad?