Are Boston City Schools doing well?
I literally don't know ANY school age children. Literally, not even one.
For the most part, I'm into puppies, not children.
We managed to raise our own after never even having seen babies before
and pulled it off with more than a modicum of success.
Still, our children chose not to have kids so we're out of the loop,
and their kids would be young adults by now even if they had them.
That being said, the Boston public schools got my entire family into private universities.
I think that they were better in my day than in the kids' time
because the neighborhood school system was already compromised by social engineering
by the time my kids' turn came.
The money spent for racial balancing nonsense would have been better applied
to books and teachers which would have benefitted ALL of the children of EVERY neighborhood.
That notwithstanding, my kids did well there.
Of course, thanks to PBS, which isn't nearly what it was decades ago in their time,
they could both read before they even started school.
The Grand Old Party, however, wasn't big on public funding of such things.
Yes, I'm somewhat bitter about the anti-intellectual populism of the conservative faction.
People become elite for a reason, and their efforts deserve respect and appreciation.
We don't do ourselves favors by throwing stones at all heads that stand above the crowd.
That's a pure Joe Sixpack attitude from my perspective.