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> bad schools (the private school for your kids will really bust your budget) Oklahoma has significantly better schools than California[1]. San Francisco has n
by dcolkitt 6y ago
> bad schools (the private school for your kids will really bust your budget)
Oklahoma has significantly better schools than California[1]. San Francisco has notoriously bad public schools, and hardly any upper-middle people send their kids there. It's not like NYC, which has strong magnet programs for the gifted. The one really good SF school, Lowell, is replacing its meritocratic test score system with a diversity lottery.
[1]https://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9617514/test-scores-naep-2013 https://www.vox.com/2015/10/26/9617514/test-scores-naep-2013
[2]https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/10/21/san-franciscos-lowell-high-school-officially-switches-from-merit-selection-system-to-lottery-in-2021/ https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/10/21/san-franciscos-...
- HarryHirsch 6y agoAnyone coming to Oklahoma from the Northeast will be in for a shock. The poor state of schools in California is a surprise, but then large parts of the state are agricultural and deep red, or otherwise simply in the middle of nowhere. CA should take a look at GA, Georgia schools are surprisingly good, especially when you compare them to the utter lousiness you find across the state line in AL. I don't know what they are doing in GA, but it works.