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Originally Posted by Boomer BeBack

And, let me guess.* Across town the only water that was flowing was coming in through a hole in the roof.

This was literally true of some "in-City" schools.* Within the City of St. Louis, the schools were so bad (back then - not sure if things have changed) that only childless couples and the poor lived in "the City" so as not to subject kids to that school district.* All others who had any resources sought the suburban school districts, and only the most affluent areas had really good ones.*

And the City of St. Louis is not at all the exception among large cities. This again leads me to believe the only really good mega-schools are the ones with upper middle class constituents which are a small percentage of the total public schools.