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[quote=Anonymous]I went to school in a college town sized town in the Midwest. One thing that was definitely true was that overall, the quality of the elementary schools was pretty strong. There were two or three schools in the poorer parts of town that were lower quality, but because they fed into the same 3 middle schools as the high quality schools, which fed into the same 3 high schools, educational quality was uniformly high. Within my high school, there was definitely the college prep track, which included AP classes, and the more vocational track, which was more of a community college prep track than anything. The community college in our town was also pretty high quality in terms of vocational certifications, which meant that pretty much everyone who wanted to go to college after high school had that option. The school expected it and had a lot of structures in place to facilitate it.

At the elementary school level, we had buses, but I walked to school because we lived close by. I live in Ward 1 now, and my child goes to our neighborhood school. I am becoming more comfortable with the idea of her walking the 2 blocks to school, but it's still pretty different than the assumed safety + crossing guards that we had when I was a kid.

As far as diversity, my town frankly just wasn't very diverse racially. We had a lot of class diversity, but because of the region, the poor people were mostly rural white poor. I don't think I was in class with a black person until 7th grade. This didn't mean that there were no discipline problems, or that everyone was rich and white, the way that I think is assumed by a lot of people on this board when talking about demographics. [/quote]

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