While I agree, the rot in the metro area schools runs so deep its going to take decades to get the progressive ideology out of them. My kids have gone to public schools their whole lives, but we live in the suburbs where the focus has always been on preparing kids for higher education and being prepare to find a successful career after college.
Public schools? When the cost per student is double that of my kids school and their graduation rate is hovering in the 60% range with less than 50% attending college? THAT is a huge problem. And what happens every year? Those same schools cry and whine they need MORE money to fix the problem. And every year the state allocates MORE money to them and every year NOTHING improves. And yet, its a constant cycle while the suburban schools continue to thrive while those metro area schools and their residents? They're trapped, like my sister and her three kids were.
What's the solution for them? They yank their kids out and send them instead to a private school whose focus is education, not indoctrinating them into some progressive ideology. The other problem is families won't wait around for ten years and wait for the problem to be fixed. They have a very narrow window in which to change things for their kids. Like my sister did, they're going to find somewhere else to send their kids and do that.
I 100% agree with your comment, but I feel the metro area schools are so entrenched and so far beyond being repaired, the best course is to make private schools more affordable, as opposed to spending decades trying to undo what these schools have done.
Public schools? When the cost per student is double that of my kids school and their graduation rate is hovering in the 60% range with less than 50% attending college? THAT is a huge problem. And what happens every year? Those same schools cry and whine they need MORE money to fix the problem. And every year the state allocates MORE money to them and every year NOTHING improves. And yet, its a constant cycle while the suburban schools continue to thrive while those metro area schools and their residents? They're trapped, like my sister and her three kids were.
What's the solution for them? They yank their kids out and send them instead to a private school whose focus is education, not indoctrinating them into some progressive ideology. The other problem is families won't wait around for ten years and wait for the problem to be fixed. They have a very narrow window in which to change things for their kids. Like my sister did, they're going to find somewhere else to send their kids and do that.
I 100% agree with your comment, but I feel the metro area schools are so entrenched and so far beyond being repaired, the best course is to make private schools more affordable, as opposed to spending decades trying to undo what these schools have done.