To be fair, it wasn’t Jackson County, Missouri that wanted to spend that money, it was a Federal Judge’s idea. The idea was to build an urban school district so fancy that suburban white families would rush to send their kids to it. Of course it failed. I have no idea what became of the state-of-the-art high school that was built in K.C. I know it included a film lab, a historic cabin, complete with full-time caretaker— everything that someone spending someone else’s money could think of.
Of course. But it wasn’t one school. It was the entire school district to fund “magnet” schools. And Troost Ave, and all of its “culture” would not have enticed Johnson county kids to rush to Paseo, Westport, or Southeast, and Center High Schools. It failed miserably because such a system would require discipline and parenting. The antithesis of Troost Ave culture.