big gov liberals thikn pools and rap songs will save edukashon... idiots.
Why close them? Start a REIT, pool the schools they don’t want together, do an IPO, and take them private. Keep the cash.
It’s the Left screwing up everything. Just another example.
Too late for a good rant, so I’ll save it for later, but just think about everything that is screwed up, and think about who is involved in the screwing up, and VOILA!!!
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My daughter goes to a private school. They don't hand out "A"s. She's busting her behind to get it done, working to qualify for scholarships. The lame part? She's competing with public schools where they apparently are handing out "A"s. In the liberal world of political correctness, every student is an "A" student.
This strikes me as an extremely key paragraph. Why should they have as many schools as they once did when they have half the students they did a decade ago and less than a quarter of the number of students they had 40 years ago?
“And to this day, the district continues to lose students. In the late 1960s enrollment peaked at 75,000, dropped to 35,000 a decade ago and now sits at just under 18,000.”
KC schools lost their accreditation in 2000. Don’t blame the folks for fleeing the school district.
Things always look clearer when viewed through the retrospectroscope and education is no exception. Abandoning neighborhood schools in favor of forced busing was but one more example of things that sound great on paper but don't work out nearly as well in practice.
What a great example of the law of unintended consequences!
One thing about government is you can fail unlimited times and still keep getting money to fail again. The problem isn’t poverty. It’s the wrong values or a lack of values.
Bush’s fault!
Obama inherited all of this...
“And when all the schools are closed, none will be substandard!!!” - Kansas city school improvement program
They used “gobs of cash to improve facilities” and it didn’t work....
How about trying, oh, I don’t know, maybe TEACHING?
I wonder what they'll try next.
“The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and another with recording studios.”
The libs are always pulling this crap. Building real beautiful, cool structures with no substance.