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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC area schools are waaay better funded.   The good Bay Area schools are like semi-private where they ask you to "donate" like $1300/child per year for thing like PE and art and music.

There are no magnet programs in most of the Bay Area schools. SF school district is a crap shoot. All lottery and there is only one really good HS (Lowell).

We moved out of the Bay Area in part due to the terrible school funding and lack of programs.[/quote]

Crazy.  I guess I take basic things like PE and art for granted[/quote]

My DD is in a public high school in SF and has taken art for 9th, 10th and now 11th grade.  [/quote]

Middle school and high school are a whole different animal.  School districts in the bay area typically don't have funds for: art, music, or foreign language for elementary school. These things are funded by parent donations either through the PTA or the school district's education fund (which is a nonprofit that fundraises from parents and businesses.)  Many districts in the bay area are K-8 districts and then there are large high school districts that are much larger.  There are some K-12 districts too. SF is a K-12 district, Palo Alto is a K-12 district.

Some of these smaller school districts have magnet schools, some do not.  The blanket statement of no magnet programs is incorrect but is likely that poster's experience with their K-8 district.  Most language immersion schools are magnet, as are the public montessori schools.  [/quote]
"There are no magnet programs in most of the Bay Area schools", not that there are no magnets at all.

And DC area has ES/MS magnets, and Bay Area schools do not, at least none that I am aware of.  The few they used to have were cut due to budget cuts, and instead it became an after school parent run program.

Just spoke to a friend who lives in the South Bay, and she said some of the expensive areas are under-enrolled -- Cupertino, Saratoga... etc..and that exacerbates funding issues.  She said the PTA had to scrounge up money for an additional teacher to keep their class sizes manageable.  These are small town based school districts with one HS.[/quote]

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