Comment by aurareturn

4 days ago

Having gone through the San Francisco public schooling system, I would never send my kids there.

I'd rather home school them if I lived in San Francisco, or if I have money, send them to private school.

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nradov  4 days ago

This is one of the main reasons why there are more dogs than children in SF. There are some good public schools but parents don't want to deal with the vagaries of the lottery system so they move out to other school districts.

cratermoon  4 days ago

> I would never send my kids there.

Why not, what's wrong with it? What could you do better at home, or what could private schools do better?

  • unstyledcontent  4 days ago

    I read thst San Francisco decided not to offer Algebra until high school so no one would feel left behind. One of those dystopian decisions that emerged from a well intentioned DEI initiative. A decision that defies logic and surprise didn't help. That would be enough of a red flag for me. https://priceonomics.com/why-did-san-francisco-schools-stop-...

  • aurareturn  4 days ago

    You could literally live next to a school and there’s a chance your kids can’t go there.

    There are many kids from low income, broken families who are just really bad students. Bullies. Disruptive. Disrespectful to teachers. It was hell going through public schools in SF.

  • nineplay  4 days ago

    I wonder the same thing, I have friends who send their kids there and are happy with it. Not surprisingly for SF, most of the parents are educated with good incomes and expect their kids to go to college. That has its own set of downsides of course, but you could do a lot worse.

  • yodsanklai  4 days ago

    Don't know why this is downvoted, seems like a reasonable question. I don't know much about SF or public schools in the US. Are they all bad? do we have data comparing public/private schools in these areas?

    • rahimnathwani  4 days ago

      Public and private schools don't take the same tests, so we don't have good days to compare the schools. Even if we did, it would be hard to disentangle the impact of selection bias.

      You could look at college acceptances or similar, but those aren't unbiased either, as colleges look at estimates of class rank, not just absolute performance.