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You don't get it because your premise that all schools are crappy is incorrect. There are good schools, and there are crappy ones, at least by their scores. T

You don't get it because your premise that all schools are crappy is incorrect. There are good schools, and there are crappy ones, at least by their scores. The big spending happens on the poorest student populations, and the results aren't that good. Why? Well, I'm going to say something unpopular, but it is often because the parents lack education, or are crappy parents, or don't prioritize education. Maybe they think work or family are more important than education. Or there are no parents.

rdl 14y ago
It's not that all public schools are crappy in California (Palo Alto, Hillsborough are great counterexamples), but a lot of them are.
gojomo 14y ago
Of course there are good public schools. The problem is, they're mainly where the kids would get a good education even if public schools didn't exist. Those parents would find a way. And by forcing those active-and-mobile parents to cluster together geographically, to get their money's worth from the public system, the abandoned isolation of the other students gets worse.