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Originally Posted by dave8721
I just looked up on the US News best High Schools list for South Florida and 24 out of the top 25 high schools are all ones that are not just "you live there, then you go there". All the top public high schools (even just about all the above average ones) are ones that you apply to from where-ever and get to them how-ever you can.
Elementary and Middle Schools are moving fast in that direction as well.
Its actually a reaction to the school choice thing. Now that parents from not so good neighborhoods and send their kids to schools in nice neighborhoods, the parents of the kids in nice neighborhoods of course dont want their kids going to school with kids from not nice neighborhoods so they all now go to the special "apply to get in schools" and it is just one giant kid commuting storm of nonsense.
The reduction in of traffic on days when there is no school is drastic.
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None of that sounds positive to me.
God bless our neighborhood K-8 school only 1 block away.
We're still a ways off from highschool. Our neighborhood boundary highschool is one of the top 3 such highschools in CPS and is only 3/4 mile away, so they can hoof/bike/skateboard/whatever themselves there.
If they get all ambitious and wanna try to get into one of the 5 ultra-competitive CPS magnet highschools (and also manage to actually get into one of them), then they'll get a CTA pass.
I ain't driving my kids nowhere.
Fuck that shit!
I signed up to be their dad, not their chauffeur.