Glad to see I was 1 of just 83 BPS parents sampled in the survey! Tina Fey once said (in character), "Boston's not a city. It's a college town with a fishing pier." Very challenging to expect electeds to focus on fixing the public school system when the electorate is so disconnected from it. I believe 11% of NYC residents are enrolled in public schools and 13% in Philly while Boston is more like 7%.
That is hilarious. It would make for a much longer post, but with the demographics of the city changing and increasing cost of living, there just isn’t much of a path to see more kids and therefore more interest in schools here. People OK what’s going on draw connections to places like San Francisco, but there are analogs from the 1970s as well that didn’t end well.
Glad to see I was 1 of just 83 BPS parents sampled in the survey! Tina Fey once said (in character), "Boston's not a city. It's a college town with a fishing pier." Very challenging to expect electeds to focus on fixing the public school system when the electorate is so disconnected from it. I believe 11% of NYC residents are enrolled in public schools and 13% in Philly while Boston is more like 7%.
That is hilarious. It would make for a much longer post, but with the demographics of the city changing and increasing cost of living, there just isn’t much of a path to see more kids and therefore more interest in schools here. People OK what’s going on draw connections to places like San Francisco, but there are analogs from the 1970s as well that didn’t end well.