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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Breaking apart segregation via income makes sense to me and removing this notion that you have to buy into a million dollar house neighborhood to receive a quality education."

...this idea doesn't make sense if it's been shown not to result in a better school system.  By all reports, [b]the idea has "not worked" in San Francisco (that is, the schools are not any better, in fact, they are worse), [/b]so the premise that it should be done here seems inherently flawed, imo.  You could just as easily say that those in favor of such an idea are so full of resentment against the status quo that they cannot see the logical flaw in the proposal:  because if you do it, things get WORSE, not better.  As the author original author stated:  going to a charter is an option that exists now  -- and, imo, the presence of ever-better charters under our current system certainly isn't making it any worse. [/quote]

What specifically is worse in SF schools now, and how did their current system cause it?[/quote]

I know it's Christmas, but hoping sometime after the eggnog haze wears off someone can answer this question because it's hard to buy into "the SF system is TERRIBLE!" when so far no one has specified what exactly is worse and how the new system caused whatever is worse.[/quote]

I'm the one who lives in sf and has a dd in their public elementary school. I'm seeing a lot of misinformation here. I have neve r heard of kids not being assigned to ANY school. The kids who live in the truly rich neighborhoods - pacific heights, nob hill, etc - go to private school, but e kids in the regularly well off neighborhoods like noe valley go to public school.

What I have noticed is that in our particular case, is that I picked a school that was very diverse in terms of race, nationality, culture, income, etc., but because so many people heard such. Great things about this school also, e more savvy people were picking this school too. So when dd arrived, there are no black kids in her class. She is the only white kid to get free breakfast. It's now a less diverse school. The majority of dd's classmates are middle class here, but would be well off anywhere else. [/quote]

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