Me neither, because I don't live in the part of town ~10 miles away where this is the case. Why don't I live there, even though the location would be more conv

Me neither, because I don't live in the part of town ~10 miles away where this is the case. Why don't I live there, even though the location would be more convenient and has far more nearby parks and businesses, the housing is dirt-cheap, they have better access to public transit than we do, the area's more walkable/bike-able, et c? The schools are bad. Why are the schools bad? Because people like me (that is, people whose kids have a low-stress life outside of school) won't move there. Digging out of that hole is nearly impossible. It amounts to "gentrify things all to hell" (which just shifts the problem around rather than actually solving it) or "fix huge social and economic problems the US has". In either case, you can't do much about it by focusing on the schools themselves.