"Without getting into a fight about why urban schools are dysfunctional, they are, and that will drive families to suburbs." It's interesting if that is the ca

"Without getting into a fight about why urban schools are dysfunctional, they are, and that will drive families to suburbs." It's interesting if that is the case in the US: it was also true in the UK in the 1980s and 90s with Central London having a reputation for poor schools. However, today the UK situation is completely reversed and the narrative is more about why schools in the regions don't perform as well as schools in the capital. One eye-opening statistic I read recently is that a disadvantaged/poor kid growing up in Hackney, East London (which is about as 'urban' as it gets here) is 3X more likely to go to university than a similarly disadvantaged kid growing up in the North of England.