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I first became interested in homeschooling several years ago after a friend with six kids began homeschooling in San Francisco out of necessity - the public sch

by uiri 12y ago

I first became interested in homeschooling several years ago after a friend with six kids began homeschooling in San Francisco out of necessity - the public school system wanted to send each of her kids to a different school. Instead of hiring six Ubers each morning she decided to start homeschooling her kids herself. Can someone explain how something like this even happens? I'm used to a system which assigns you a school based on your address/space. If space constraints change, the child is generally not kicked out. Exceptions are usually made to space constraints so that younger siblings may attend the same school as their older siblings. I can understand an elementary, a middle and a high school but that is only three different schools.

zem 12y ago
sf has a school lottery [http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/17/anxious-parents-try-to-game-system-in-san-francisco-school-lottery http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/17/anxious-parents-try-to-g...]. it's supposed to give some weight towards keeping siblings together, but that evidently glitched in her case.
praxulus 12y ago
If your school is determined by your location, the houses near a great school become prohibitively expensive. That makes them as economically exclusive as private schools while keeping all the tax subsidies of a public school. I don't think San Francisco's solution is a particularly good one, but I do think it's a legitimate problem.
joycey 12y ago
Sometimes the district lines can change depending on what year you enter the school, which could split up siblings, but I'm pretty sure this is still the exception and not the norm.
squidbot 12y ago
That line interested me as well but for a different reason. Do schools in San Francisco not have an obligation to transport the children that are assigned to them? Actually, I just looked it up the SFUSD page and it appears they do, and they offer school buses as I suspected. So the rationale for homeschooling by this person seems, well, irrational. Why would she need to hire six cars when buses would come get the kids?

by uiri 12y ago

zem 12y ago

sf has a school lottery [http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/17/anxious-parents-try-to-game-system-in-san-francisco-school-lottery http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/17/anxious-parents-try-to-g...]. it's supposed to give some weight towards keeping siblings together, but that evidently glitched in her case.

praxulus 12y ago

If your school is determined by your location, the houses near a great school become prohibitively expensive. That makes them as economically exclusive as private schools while keeping all the tax subsidies of a public school. I don't think San Francisco's solution is a particularly good one, but I do think it's a legitimate problem.

joycey 12y ago

Sometimes the district lines can change depending on what year you enter the school, which could split up siblings, but I'm pretty sure this is still the exception and not the norm.

squidbot 12y ago

That line interested me as well but for a different reason. Do schools in San Francisco not have an obligation to transport the children that are assigned to them? Actually, I just looked it up the SFUSD page and it appears they do, and they offer school buses as I suspected. So the rationale for homeschooling by this person seems, well, irrational. Why would she need to hire six cars when buses would come get the kids?